Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
2 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
3 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
4 | Jean Francois Poitevin , who finished third last year and has a best time of 1:32:22 , has pulled out in protest . |
5 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
6 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |
7 | Most parents graduate to giving one warning after the initial command so that the child has a little time in which to respond but parents need to be very careful that they do n't lapse into nagging to get the child to comply again . |
8 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
9 | The latter film has a playing time of twenty minutes . |
10 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
11 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
12 | This allows a reasonable time for processing , and results in fewer lost revolutions than is normally possible . |
13 | Duodenoscopes are more difficult to clean thoroughly than gastroscopes because of the bridging elevator channel and , as they are often used less frequently , their incomplete disinfection or drying allows a greater time for organisms to proliferate . |
14 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
15 | ( ‘ Lonely ’ or ‘ loneliness ’ occurs a dozen times in his songs . |
16 | The assault on Panama marks the second time in six years that the US has employed its military forces against a country in the hemisphere . |
17 | If she thinks once of Edgar Linton , she thinks a thousand times of me ! |
18 | I actually do believe baby requires a little time on her own . ’ |
19 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
20 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
21 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
22 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
23 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |
24 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
25 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
26 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
27 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |
28 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
29 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |
30 | It takes a measurable time for the motor to decelerate to the point where the clutch disengages and , during this time , it will tend to slow the rotor , which is undesirable . |