Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] time [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Smyth , the company chairman , said : ‘ It is difficult to imagine any time since 1967 when our prospects for the future look brighter . |
| 2 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Fedorov wo n't be visiting the post office till the end of the month , but we do n't want to waste any time after that . |
| 4 | Hence he never bothered to devote much time to Spanish affairs ; wishful thinking and ignorance exposed his views on the value of Spain to a series of disillusionments . |
| 5 | To allow more time for new procedures to come into effect , the reapproval of the DipAD courses due to take place in the autumn of 1975 was postponed for a year . |
| 6 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 7 | Playboater are to pull out of retailing to allow more time for other projects . |
| 8 | MANDATORY repatriation of Hong Kong 's Vietnamese boat people will resume during the first half of next month , despite the protest action in detention centres and international pressure on Britain and the Hong Kong Government to allow more time for voluntary repatriation . |
| 9 | As you plan these , remember to allow more time between longer races for recovery . |
| 10 | This is a four-week period in which racing should not be undertaken seriously , but during this time training can become harder and as it does so , it must be directed towards the goal , It may be necessary to allow more time between hard sessions and longer recovery times during the session , until your anti-stress systems get back to normal . |
| 11 | At the height of the energy crisis , the enactment of the Energy Supply and Environmental Co-ordination Act of June 1974 suspended the emission standards until 1977 and 1978 to allow vehicle manufacturers to devote more time to improving fuel economy . |
| 12 | The SCOTVEC exercise gave me an ideal and welcome opportunity to spend some time on advanced course provision , to see how others saw it and , finally , to find out how other colleges approached it . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
| 14 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 15 | The last thing she wanted was to spend more time with this abrasive Scandinavian . |
| 16 | Was the further sacrifice of having to spend more time with this Danish dictator , this Nordic Nero , really too much for her to endure ? |
| 17 | In this way he not only develops his people , he also frees himself to spend more time on other aspects of his work ( for example , planning decisions , communications with other areas and personnel problems ) . |
| 18 | Do the learners need to spend more time in some areas than in others ? |
| 19 | This part of the course is intended to enable the student to spend enough time on one current and developing model of grammar to be at ease with its fundamental concepts and to understand in some detail the application of these to the solution of actual problems in English . |
| 20 | I , I do n't intend to spend any time on that at all we went through it last time |