Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman will also have to organize the panel during the interview , making sure that everyone has sufficient time to ask their questions but without allowing the process to get out of hand and overrun . |
| 2 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 3 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 4 | Not that I 've any time for that widow of his . |
| 5 | Another dream that I had several times was that I would sacrifice my life to save others . |
| 6 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 7 | I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley 's precept of a " bloody good gallop " , often with spectacular results . |
| 8 | This is not to say that she has much time for the developers ' current products . |
| 9 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 10 | I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time . |
| 11 | Finally , make sure that you devote sufficient time in December to sending out Christmas cards containing personal messages . |
| 12 | It is better to report that you had insufficient time to collect certain data than to produce half baked results . |
| 13 | It seems that with such a background the theme of your thoughts during the course of these symposiums has been getting the message across , and certainly when you turn to the one that you have this time , of the media , you are really getting involved in getting the message across . |
| 14 | The woman told me that they normally like you to book a few days in advance so that you have some time to think it over in case you wanted to change your mind . |
| 15 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 16 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 17 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 18 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 19 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 20 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 21 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 22 | That we used last time ? |
| 23 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 24 | Cou could I ask , before we go too deep into the issue , that if we are gon na use this er er make proper use of it , that we have some time to analyze the |
| 25 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 26 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 27 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 28 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 29 | Obviously the ratio of direct to indirect work varies with different occupations but , in nearly all , practitioners find that they spend more time on the latter than they think is appropriate . |
| 30 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |