Example sentences of "[prep] [art] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 2 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 3 | The watch face consists of two different coloured hands — the shorter , red ‘ Flik ’ hand rotates around the inner circle of numbers ( 1–12 ) to indicate the hour of the day whilst the longer , blue ‘ Flak ’ hand ticks around the outer circle of numbers ( marked off in fives up to 60 ) for the minutes . |
| 4 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 5 | The postal services in those days must have been extremely efficient , for the Minutes of the Committee Meeting held in London four days later ( on 26 June , at No 12 Austin Friars ) recorded the receipt of Sir William 's plan , commenting that he had indicated there ‘ would not be found a want of active and intelligent Committees , and hardy boats ’ crews ’ ! |
| 6 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 7 | I just lived for the minute ; if my tongue and lips and fingers travelled freely over her , that was good enough for forever . |
| 8 | I had to admit to myself that that threw me for the minute . |
| 9 | ‘ Not for the minute . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not thinking at all — not for the minute , ’ replied Morse loftily . |
| 11 | None too quietly , he asked the woman if she would mind leaving him alone , just for a while , since he had something more important to do for the minute than listen to her gripes and belly-aching . |
| 12 | Not for the minute . |
| 13 | For the minute , though , it was gone . |
| 14 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 15 | I thought Gav had given me the heave-ho for the minute . |
| 16 | Madam er deputy speaker , there is a feeling abroad in the country that an audit certificate is rather like an M O T certificate , it 's good for the minute that it was granted but it is perfectly useless thereafter . |
| 17 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 18 | Er you happy to leave things as they are for the minute ? |
| 19 | I 'm talking about cord and five lines here for the minute aye and I 'm talking about bringing in talking about bringing in four or five lines down there , right ? |
| 20 | to cover a wee bit of ground here , I 'm just trying to make a point to you about how many closes you 're probably not aware for the minute , these are only a few of them , right , similar situation close , right , lost sale close , right the did n't I cover that close |
| 21 | There was no sign of any special or unusual wave pattern during the minutes when the animal was apparently lifeless . |
| 22 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 23 | Chairman could I just ask as the minute taker to er clarify the , the remit of the er educational seminar ? |
| 24 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 25 | As the minutes of silence and confusion unfolded , the crush eased and a visibly shaken band were allowed back onstage . |
| 26 | As the minutes edge towards 8.30 she receives signals from all the technical stations . |
| 27 | As the minutes of the conclusions of the conference stated : " Various cases have recently been referred to this HQ in which doubt has been raised as to whether certain formations and groups should be treated as Soviet Nationals in so far as their return to the Soviet Union direct from 5 Corps is concerned . " |
| 28 | I have looked through the minute books from 1991 but can find no record of a Wales YFC representative having attended . |
| 29 | What I 'd like to do is go through the minutes of the last meeting . |
| 30 | Instead Rosa waited in church before the eleven o'clock Mass , in the side chapel of the Madonna of the Spasm , and tried to pray through the minutes that seemed to haul themselves onwards through time as if anvils were strapped to their feet . |