Example sentences of "of time [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's a waste of time taking an umbrella anyway |
| 2 | So there was plenty of time to leave the box and promenade around . |
| 3 | Went by without Lucy , each dark and light portion of time acquired a date and name only when they met . |
| 4 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 5 | Of time receives the ideologue . |
| 6 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 7 | If you have to lay your detector up for any length of time remove the batteries . |
| 8 | By completing pictures children can demonstrate their ideas visually without spending a lot of time producing a complicated drawing . |
| 9 | Emphasis on the role of time characterized the Pythagorean idea of the kosmos . |
| 10 | The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future . |
| 11 | However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict . |
| 12 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 13 | Since attendance at everything was voluntary there was plenty of time to view the high-tech exhibition and to mingle and chat in any of the dozens of coffee shops on the site . |
| 14 | need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ? |
| 15 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 16 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 17 | It takes a considerable amount of time to conduct an audit covering the points mentioned above , and this time is expensive in labour costs . |
| 18 | Can he assure me that the woodlands sold off by the commission will be accessible to all walkers , especially as after the next election a lot of Scottish Labour Members will have a lot of time to do a lot of walking ? |
| 19 | Diana had plenty of time to spot the guests , who included Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 20 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 21 | My aching back woke me around 7.30 , but that gave me plenty of time to use the communal bathroom and kitchen . |
| 22 | Even if the date has not been passed check that you have plenty of time to use the tub up . |
| 23 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 24 | Although now Friday night , he will spend a considerable amount of time sorting the samples and equipment for his Northern trip next week . |
| 25 | But the class needs to be allowed plenty of time to formulate a reply . |
| 26 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |
| 27 | For Kate , the passing of time made the silence chillier , until it felt like an icy shroud around her . |
| 28 | This absence of a continuous sense of time made an exact computation of past centuries extremely difficult , particularly because of co-regencies , parallel reigns and fictitious reigns . |
| 29 | We have spent a lot of time developing a methodology that could contribute to this process . |
| 30 | In place of a unity of time came the notion of discrete temporalities , with a recognition of a historicity proper to each discipline or area of knowledge . |