Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.

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1 The survival of the nationals may seem remarkable , in view of the much greater choice of alternative media at the end of the period than at the beginning , with TV an obvious competitor for the reader 's time and the advertiser 's money .
2 De Marchi has suggested that the picture forms part of the Valle Romita polyptych , an early work by the artist , now in the Brera , Milan , and probably executed for the Convento dei Minori Osservanti in Val di Sasso during the artist 's time in Venice .
3 Observations are kept during the children 's time at the Institute on their developmental progress in all areas and these are recorded approximately once a month .
4 During the partnership 's time at the mill , even more building was carried out , including an additional block , powered by three water wheels .
5 He did what he could , battling against the discrepancy between the clock 's time and the racing migraine .
6 I was deeply impressed at your delicious meal , for I know that it takes a lot of thought and time to put something together so excellently ( at least , I know about the thought + time ! ) .
7 it is not worth the salesperson 's time to let the buyer finish .
8 Treatment at home has advantages for some patients , although it requires more of the therapist 's time in travelling .
9 Painted straight onto the walls , this commission took far more of the artist 's time than he had bargained for , and Lutyens had to be firm with his friend to make him finish it .
10 Er , and I do n't intend to take up any more of the court 's time simply opening myself documentation and making points upon it .
11 And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock .
12 In a hospital for the mentally handicapped much of the nurse 's time is devoted to maintaining a safe environment for the patients and also helping them to understand and put into practice essential safety measures .
13 ‘ If the banks do not pass on the whole of the cut in rates then that is a waste of the Government 's time in trying to stimulate the economy . ’
14 Much of the bureaucracy 's time was absorbed in checking and double-checking its own work .
15 I erm think that that is quite useful research that has been undertaken for government , and it it has been carried through , er as I 'm sure everybody is aware , into the U K strategy for sustainable development , the consultation period of which is just concluding , erm I wo n't take you any more of the panel 's time to read that quote as it 's written in my in my statement .
16 Cheese making demanded a great deal of the wife 's time , up to 5 or 6 hours per day .
17 Mr Bob Wybrow of Gallup reckons that year by year only about a tenth of his own time is occupied with politics , and ‘ about two per cent of the organisation 's time ’ , though of course this doubles in an election year .
18 Not bad for four and a half months of the University 's time , I suppose .
19 But it made sense to keep the running titles intact and transfer them as a set to another forme on its way to the press , saving a little of the compositor 's time .
20 Assume that at the end of the investor 's time horizon there are two possible end states , the first in which the share price has doubled and the second in which it has halved .
21 Lastly , assume that the prevailing risk-free rate of return for the duration of the investor 's time horizon is 10 per cent .
22 This should be equal to either of the outcomes , Therefore we can write , may be solved to find the value of C , the option at the beginning of the investor 's time horizon : Substituting for m and rearranging we obtain : .
23 That quality , at least initially when combined with other innovation being imposed on the school system , is likely to lead to a distraction of the teachers ' time from the sort of effortless teaching strategies , hard won over decades , as they are drawn into the steep learning curve of the unfamiliar new language of the National Curriculum and its assessment .
24 Some 90 per cent of the adviser 's time is spent on medical appeal tribunals and reviews of Department of Social Security benefits for disabled people .
25 Advice has been received that such work would not be more than 5% of the adviser 's time .
26 Overall the farm provided 61% of the total income for an input of 69% of the family 's time .
27 On average , 22 per cent of the inspectors ' time is spent on inspection , including observation , recording and analysis .
28 Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time .
29 Spending time considering that Chemical Dependency might be the true cause of many of these secondary consequences is a better use of the doctor 's time than trying to tidy up the same repeated consequences time and time again .
30 The hon. Gentleman rightly said that it is a waste of the doctor 's time for him to turn his attention to something that has already been decided by someone else and merely to rubberstamp it .
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