Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 2 | according to Turner , many migrants arrive in the city and , after spending a short time in the wretched conditions of the slums , decide to improve their living standards by moving to a squatter settlement . |
| 3 | His signing to fight Larry Holmes , after retiring a second time , provoked worried comment . |
| 4 | The Scottish defender is still on a high after hitting the extra time winner which earned his side a Wilkinson Sword League Cup final spot against Bangor on April 20 . |
| 5 | Another Williams-bred youngster , Pond Curlew , which receives start of eight metres , looks like being favourite for the Easter Handicap after clocking the fastest time of 27.44 , though he takes on Florida Bill , unbeaten in three rounds of the competition , also off eight metres , tonight . |
| 6 | We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time Am I waiting until I become a little older ? |
| 7 | But worries over its future have been allayed after Darlington college stepped in to subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher at the unit to ensure it can continue its daytime classes . |
| 8 | Darlington college has now agreed it will subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher so daytime classes can continue . |
| 9 | Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment . |
| 10 | Divertimento gives you a chance of looking a second time , without much delay , from a slightly different point of view . |
| 11 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 12 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 13 | And in The Pope and the Witch , the comedy is so puerile and shambolic that there 's never any risk of having a good time anyway . |
| 14 | Even a small arbitrary gathering of friends or sailors took on a party atmosphere owing to Minton 's knack of having a good time . |
| 15 | ‘ I think we make the most of having a good time , which a lot of bands just do n't bother saying . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we make the most of having a good time , which a lot of bands just do n't bother saying . |
| 17 | It is the social reward of cohesiveness in the group now which affects productivity , not the pursuit of productivity itself ; productivity is merely the outcome of having a rewarding time in the group . |
| 18 | You may have recollections of taking a long time to achieve competence in one particular skill , and wonder whether on returning you will be given adequate time to practise and revise . |
| 19 | Then the Seattle-based group hit on a sure-fire way of making the big time . |
| 20 | Another Challenge Tour player with potential of making the big time is Kevin Golding . |
| 21 | If you have already made an application to the tribunal , perhaps to obviate the risk of missing a crucial time limit should negotiations collapse , the detailed terms might , if it is thought appropriate , be set out in a separate document while you withdraw your claim on form COT 4 . |
| 22 | Charles Spencer said : ‘ There was no thought of exorcising a second time because my father was n't believed to be very ill . ’ |
| 23 | There was an opportunity now of reducing the waiting time to 12 months , on the basis of holding the percentage payment at 62 per cent . |
| 24 | One or both of them may not wish to cope with parenting a second time round , having not long been released from the exhaustion and limitations of childcare on their own account . |
| 25 | It is worth spending a little time to ponder the significance of this . |
| 26 | This is a crucial and extremely innovative part of the Highlander education ‘ system , ’ and it is worth spending a little time stressing the importance of this . |
| 27 | As a general principle , every so often it 's worth spending a little time relating words to their root , either the immediate derivation ( fanciful — fancy , variety — vary , especially — special ) , or etymologically ( hippopotamus , fee , salary , window ) . |
| 28 | As the errors remain instructive , it is worth spending a little time considering what went wrong . |
| 29 | The Government try to justify their claims about a minimum wage on the grounds of what it might to do employment , so it is worth spending a little time on the reasons why we shall insist on introducing it , and the rationale behind that . |
| 30 | It is worth spending a little time explaining why . |