Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 2 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 3 | The grants will contribute towards the cost of financing extra time spent helping people with special needs to sustain their tenancy . |
| 4 | Students , feeling it their duty to point out the shortcomings of policies and personalities in Chinese politics , exercised their traditional custom of remonstrating several times throughout Deng 's decade of reform . |
| 5 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 6 | Young men who had a maximum oral hygiene index of 6 had a risk of dying 3.4 times higher than those who had a hygiene index of 0 . |
| 7 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 8 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 9 | Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve . |
| 10 | But any hopes they had of forcing extra time ended when Andy Comyn shot wide with the goal at his mercy . |
| 11 | Ivey suggested that consultants were a way of expanding available time without incurring an increase in fixed costs . |
| 12 | Double marking raises problems for staff already under great pressure of examining three times a year and also working within the tight deadlines of examination week . |
| 13 | Will you have the opportunity of spending some time with London Agents , and if so what are the financial terms likely to be ? |
| 14 | I can not overstate the value of spending some time with a competent goldpanner . |
| 15 | Meeting Nur Bai was clearly one of the highlights of Khan 's visit to Delhi and at the end of his description he quietly drops in the fact that he ‘ had the good fortune of spending some time in her company … ’ |
| 16 | It came as a very pleasant surprise to me when I learned that you were in the habit of spending some time in this part of the world . |
| 17 | He gave the impression of having little time for the Member , despite Grunte 's many years spent in the motor trade . |
| 18 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 19 | I have a definite sensation of making a better turn and of having more time in which to make the hit . |
| 20 | Alayn , unwittingly , boasts to the miller himself of having three times " " swyved " " the miller 's daughter . |
| 21 | They began a long march back to Capel Curig with no hope of making closing time — when a touring couple took pity and gave them a lift straight to the pub . |
| 22 | And I daresay the worry about what to do with the cat or the problem of finding spare time in the executive diary keeps other unhappy couples together . |
| 23 | First , and perhaps most fundamental , is the problem of finding sufficient time . |
| 24 | 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside . |
| 25 | There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world . |
| 26 | A fine illustration of Althusser 's conception of ‘ differential temporality ’ , and the impossibility of reducing historical time to an ‘ essential section ’ ! |
| 27 | Major brands are sold with service and maintenance provided under contract with the aim of reducing down time from breakdowns and maximising the reliability and performance of the equipment . |