Example sentences of "time [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple reaction time refers to a response , such as a key press , indicating merely that the stimulus has been detected , whereas discriminative reaction time refers to a response where some kind of discrimination is called for between two stimuli presented either simultaneously or successively . |
| 2 | Simple reaction time refers to a response , such as a key press , indicating merely that the stimulus has been detected , whereas discriminative reaction time refers to a response where some kind of discrimination is called for between two stimuli presented either simultaneously or successively . |
| 3 | Undeterred however , it decided on a second offensive , this time confined to a search for a low-level waste dump where the material would be buried in shallow trenches . |
| 4 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 5 | Time slowed to a crawl for Howard , as he saw the gun swing up , its wielder moving a half step forward and a half turn round . |
| 6 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 7 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 8 | A drill which has been expanded in order to give the student time to respond to a stimulus , and which is the kind of drill used in a taped programme in a language laboratory . |
| 9 | Here it is time to turn to a consideration of what has become in the last decade , and is still as I write , perhaps the single most popular learning model in the trade today . |
| 10 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 11 | The farmer approached at that moment and was angry with Tess for wasting time talking to a stranger . |
| 12 | Alicia says you should spend time talking to a breeder before diving in to buy one , to be sure it is the breed for you . |
| 13 | To take a different example you might imagine an adviser who has left herself just enough time to get to a school for a meeting , bombing down the motorway and getting a puncture . |
| 14 | With that threat having been neutralized , argued Buchanan , it was time to return to a form of nationalism based upon protectionism , minimal government , an avoidance of foreign entanglements , and a defence of the " Judeo-Christian values " which formed the basis of US culture and which were in danger of being " dumped onto some landfill called multiculturalism " . |
| 15 | Is it not about time to bring to a halt the silly idea which threatens the safety of Benefits Agency staff ? |