Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though expensive and time-consuming , the change cut the time needed for the project from three or four years to two . |
| 2 | To give a full description of even a simple evening out at the theatre could cover numerous pages , and it is unlikely that the writer has the time or wish to do this . |
| 3 | When the chart specifies a time outbound such as the 3 minutes on the adjoining pattern , such time is meaningless unless allied with a specific speed to produce a specific distance . |
| 4 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |
| 5 | Additionally , less electricity is used and the chef wastes no time waiting for the correct temperature to be reached . |
| 6 | But when Edinburgh University 's Professor David Wood-Gush and colleagues released factory-raised pigs into a semi-wild environment on the Pentland Hills , the animals lost no time in gathering twigs , grass and branches to build communal nests in which to sleep . |
| 7 | The Figure shows the time courses of syn-PLA2 , cat-PLA2 , and pan-PLA2 in serum samples from patients with oedematous or necrotising episodes of acute pancreatitis . |
| 8 | The car faded every time I lifted my foot . |
| 9 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 10 | Did the authors record the time of uterine contraction after delivery and , if so , was there any relation to neonatal outcome ? |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 12 | The administration lost no time in trying to regain the initiative for the United States . |
| 13 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 14 | think the Council had a time meeting to actually discuss that report with , with |
| 15 | The warden had no time for niceties . |
| 16 | Yet we must be cautious in viewing the Japanese farmer as being on the losing end every time . |
| 17 | It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom . |
| 18 | Or the little portable sundials which shepherds used to carry up into the mountains to tell the time by ; or , a last reassuringly bucolic reminder that Bayonne 's fighting days are over , an English bayonet from the Napoleonic wars converted for stripping corn-cobs . |
| 19 | The Normans lasted no time at all ! |
| 20 | The read-out includes the time of entry , user identification and method of entry , for example , keycard or emergency metal key . |
| 21 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 22 | If you review cases manually date-stamp the outside of the file cover every time a review takes place . |
| 23 | If you have manual time recording then you will need to complete a list on the file showing the time and activity code which can then be used as your billing guide . |
| 24 | The generation gap makes it difficult , at my age , to find the generosity to devote the time and effort required to figure out what the bright young things are up to . |
| 25 | But the Collector had no time to worry about the locomotion of corpses ; this doorway had to be held until the defenders on the other side of the staircase had made good their retreat . |
| 26 | It is also worth noting that there are several teaching points that could usefully be made at a draft stage in Thomas 's work , notably the need to review the time sequence of the verbs in the penultimate sentence . |
| 27 | The Galks saw the time traveller , lowered themselves on to all fours , and bounded across the desert . |
| 28 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 29 | But the Ahlbergs have no time for literal interpretations of their work . |
| 30 | However , subject to the power of the court to extend the time under s 376 , no application to reverse or vary the decision of the trustee rejecting a proof will be entertained unless notice of the application is given before the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of service of the notice of rejection ( r 6.105 ) . |