Example sentences of "[to-vb] the time [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This option enables you to adjust the time of the next LIFESPAN system shut down . |
| 2 | If the adverbials in the above examples were not included in the clause , one would have to rely entirely on the context to establish the time of the event . |
| 3 | It would be possible for the government of the day utterly to monopolise the time of the House fur its own legislation . |
| 4 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 5 | A final method of curtailing debate arises under Standing Order No. 22 which authorises the Speaker or a chairman to stop a Member who seeks to waste the time of the House by tediously repeating himself . |
| 6 | As she headed for the stairs her mind was already trying to calculate the time since the call . |
| 7 | Cassie lifted her arms to reach his neck , and from the position in which she lay , she had no need to move her head to read the time on the face of her watch . |
| 8 | Yes , I , I think really that 's why it 's a lot easier to read the time on an analogue display than it is on a digital display . |
| 9 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
| 10 | To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value . |
| 11 | It allows matters of lesser importance to be decided without troubling the whole Cabinet ; and major issues to be clarified in order to save the time of the Cabinet . |
| 12 | Hope was generally busy , but with the three of us I should be able to snatch the time for a letter in the small hours . |
| 13 | It would be possible to specify the time of an utterance as stretching between say 9.33 a.m. and 9.34 a.m. on 5 June 1961 , specifying the utterance in terms of clock and calendar time , good standard systems . |
| 14 | Time is finite and business has to be done ; abuse consists of seeking merely to occupy the time of the House to no other end than that business shall not be done . |
| 15 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |