Example sentences of "time [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One teacher asked if there would be any extra time given to produce the self-appraisal reports but the director argued that the information should be available already — that it was a matter of taking something on aims and objectives and ‘ dusting them down ’ . |
| 2 | English language scholarship at this time failed to reflect the broad range of Japanese language scholarship , in particular the strong Marxist influence on interpretation and conceptualization . |
| 3 | Monday 's a good day for getting the broad brush strokes of your intentions and meanings across , but it 's a terrible time to try to explain the fine detail of a plan . |
| 4 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 5 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 6 | Woosnam feared that he would miss the cut , then have to sit around watching re-runs on TV of The Lucille Ball Show until it was time to help slip the green jacket on the new champion . |
| 7 | But when it comes time to play live the old equipment is ridiculous . |
| 8 | While Birtwell , who is a fisheries research scientist with the Canadian government in Vancouver , has still to decide whether or not he can continue to devote the time needed to coach the national team , he has no doubts as to what the future holds . |
| 9 | Unless the year ends coincide , or the information is readily available from other sources , the time needed to calculate the returnable amounts may be prohibitive . |
| 10 | The time needed to empty the dead space of the infusion was set ( mean ( SEM ) of six replications ) at 95 ( 4 ) seconds . |
| 11 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 12 | We are , therefore , going to spend some time getting to know the real you . |
| 13 | The aim is not to increase the community nurses ' workload but rather to decrease time spent chasing the social work team . |
| 14 | Eventually , after a long time spent contemplating the inevitable , we had to get up . |
| 15 | The only criticism is the time taken to put the financial package together before work could begin . |
| 16 | The time taken to reach the highest speed is small compared to the time spent operating at this speed , so a large switching angle is chosen . |
| 17 | For larger loads the time taken to reach the first step position is longer and therefore the time between successive step commands is automatically adjusted to allow for the slower rate of acceleration . |
| 18 | A reduction in the number of steps implies less excitation changes and , as we shall see in Chapters 5 and 6 , it is the speed with which excitation changes can take place which ultimately limits the time taken to move the required distance . |
| 19 | As long as the specimen has an accessible surface that is greater than about 2 cm in diameter and is unattacked by a suitable coupling liquid , the method will yield all the moduli together with Poisson 's ratio in five minutes plus the time taken to do the required calculations . |
| 20 | Let the time taken to make the final dash be T seconds . |
| 21 | The greater this distance , the longer the time taken to make the final uncovered dash ( T ) , and so a duck can afford to lower its peeking rate . |
| 22 | The time taken to prepare the two works is therefore , roughly speaking , 50 years for the OED and 28 years for the Supplement . |
| 23 | We had no time left to visit the extreme right sector ( Top Secret ) which had nine routes of around English 5c in the 1989 guide , but now has many more . |
| 24 | In my opinion it serves no useful purpose at the present time to seek to construe the relevant provisions of the Theft Act by reference to the report which preceded it , namely the Eighth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee on Theft and Related Offences ( 1966 ) ( Cmnd. 2977 ) . |
| 25 | However , on the strength of findings by a joint historical commission formed in 1987 to resolve " blank spots " in Polish-Soviet relations , in March 1989 the Polish authorities for the first time had contradicted the official Soviet line and had openly accused the Soviet Union of responsibility [ see p. 36535 ] . |
| 26 | If you do n't hold the wire on the floor , the tape will wrap itself round it and you 'll have a terrible time trying to disentangle the resulting blob of sticky goo . ) |
| 27 | But consider now a different theory which takes its clue not from Leibniz but from Kant , while at the same time trying to eliminate the main causes of the difficulties and problems that bedevil Kant 's own approach . |
| 28 | His mind was n't up to speaking one line while listening to another , and at the same time trying to remember the next move . |
| 29 | Many of the early experimenters spent a lot of time trying to improve the tiny transparent crystals they had made — crystals which they erroneously believed were only silica or other hard but non-diamond crystals . |
| 30 | ‘ The quality of cards has changed , particularly over the last 10 years and publishers now spend a lot of time trying to get the perfect finish , and indeed just the right verse for a particular occasion , ’ he added . |