Example sentences of "[noun sg] against time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawn from several BNFL departments , this group fought and won a battle against time to hit the tightest of deadlines . |
| 2 | Still to come on Central News , the race against time to save a young foal . |
| 3 | I soon discovered that one of the two compartments of the dinghy had sprung a leak and it was a race against time to reach shore before it deflated completely . |
| 4 | Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month . |
| 5 | Passengers were ordered to fasten seat belts and some received oxygen as the pilot began a race against time to land the plane before the screen blew out . |
| 6 | WOLVES have won a race against time to clear £325,000 Paul Blades for tomorrow 's televised clash with West Ham . |
| 7 | But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment . |
| 8 | But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment . |
| 9 | But with the French , Spanish and Portuguese backing Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's demand , he now faces a race against time to prevent Britain being left in the cold . |
| 10 | THE RUC lost a race against time to prevent the huge IRA explosion that devastated Great Victoria Street and Glengall Street last week . |
| 11 | Technical staff from the Theatre 3 group from Newtownabbey won a race against time to get their set up for their presentation of a Tennessee Williams play ‘ Suddenly Last Summer . ’ |