Example sentences of "[v-ing] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening time for anglers |
| 2 | Beer mats will give way to hymnals , and glasses to enlightenment as Britain 's first ‘ pub church ’ holds its Easter Day service , two hours before opening time at the Old Farmhouse public house in Nailsea , near Bristol . |
| 3 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 4 | There is also the interesting combination of a lithographed People on a Pavement ( 1967 ) by L.S. Lowry and the gouache and crayon drawing of a group of five hunched miners Waiting for Opening Time by Tom McGuinness . |
| 5 | We join all the other dancers jumping up and down , round and round the dance floor , stopping momentarily as I place my rifle in a corner near the band , then on again keeping time to the music . |
| 6 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 7 | They lamb easily , producing wonderfully tasty meat lambs when crossed with a Ryeland sire , and give the softest of fleeces at shearing time in a variety of attractive shades , ideal for hand spinning and knitting . |
| 8 | In particular , he objected to correlating time with the motions of the heavenly bodies , since time would still exist if the heavens should cease to move but a potter 's wheel continued to rotate . |
| 9 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 10 | Some took the arduous climb , a square-by-square approach , passing the hurdles of Sergeant 's and Inspector 's examinations , serving time on a variety of specialist duties , and beat supervision . |
| 11 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 12 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 13 | These characters can be used to start play very quickly , saving time for eager players ! |
| 14 | The room maid can enter maintenance requests into the system via the telephone , saving time in tracking down members of staff . ’ |
| 15 | By triggering the unit manually , rotary control VR2 could be calibrated and a scale of operating time in seconds marked out on the front panel . |
| 16 | Searching time for Souness |
| 17 | ( 1 ) In this Order — ’ allotted day ’ means any day ( other than a Friday ) on which the Bill is put down as first Government Order of the day , provided that a Motion for allotting time to the proceedings on the Bill to be taken on that day either has been agreed on a previous day , or is set down for consideration on that day ; ’ the Bill ’ means the Local Government Finance Bill . |
| 18 | To provide a means of measuring time at night the Egyptians also invented the water-clock , or ‘ clepsydra ’ as the Greeks later called it . |
| 19 | We are used to measuring time in decades and centuries and millennia . |
| 20 | Briefly , though , the bases for systems of reckoning and measuring time in most languages seem to be the natural and prominent cycles of day and night , lunar months , seasons and years . |
| 21 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 22 | ‘ And I can certainly think of ways in which I can talk about this in such a way that Mrs Jones doing her washing up , Mr Brown driving to work , E H Os idling time in their offices , listen to the radio , can actually listen and enjoy it . ’ |
| 23 | A written reply last week confirmed that the average waiting time between the making of an application and the first visit or inspection is about nine weeks . |
| 24 | Editor , — Catherine Pope is wrong when she states that the patient 's charter promises patients a maximum outpatient waiting time of 30 minutes . |
| 25 | A consultation paper published yesterday suggested the proportion of rent collected , the amount of rent arrears , the number of empty properties and the average cost and waiting time for repairs must be included . |
| 26 | The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing . |
| 27 | Although delays are far from negligible even in magistrates ' courts , the problem is particularly acute in relation to Crown Courts where the average waiting time for those denied bail is around ten weeks from committal to trial . |
| 28 | The average waiting time for a routine appointment in a urological outpatient clinic was 7.4 ( range 3–36 ) months and for a non-urgent prostatectomy 21 ( 9–36 ) months , and the situation in Wales was slightly worse than in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 29 | Waiting time for first outpatient appointment |
| 30 | The average waiting time for trial at Crown Court was 56 days in 1989 , and in that year remand prisoners made up just over one-fifth of the average prison population . |