Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 2 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 3 | Other problems , such as academic ability or entry requirements , became secondary if the adult can not afford to do the course or find the time to study in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 5 | Squeeze his sides and Mickey opens his mouth and talks the time . |
| 6 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have to hand it to you , ’ he said grimly , ‘ you lose one lover and waste no time in replacing him . |
| 8 | I bought the prescribed or recommended books but had no time to read them . |
| 9 | Their hearts were going bang bang bang bang and the younger of the two had an excruciating bursting pain in the middle of the chest that stabbed every time a sobbing gasp came . |
| 10 | Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours . |
| 11 | She felt again that slight frisson of foreboding that came every time she thought of Gesner . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 13 | Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time . |
| 14 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 15 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 16 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 17 | Genesis , Tracey 's distinctly secular celebration of the Creation , has been reissued as a CD , with two of the composer 's big-band classics ( Afro-Charlie and Murdering The Time ) added for good measure . |
| 18 | Erm , he organised the coordinating , after a while she did actually stop them after five minutes and explain the time situation , er , the final objective were the constraints . |
| 19 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 20 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 21 | If you like cooking and have the time to experiment , there is a recipe section on pages 133–150 , which you might like to try , and in the reading list you will find a selection of recipe books that you might like to dip into . |
| 22 | Further , the Prime Minister brought forward the deadline for nominations to the leadership contest to 15 November in order to force the hand of any challenger and to reduce the time available to mount an effective campaign . |
| 23 | That would take a good hour and kill the time . |
| 24 | But when he was with her alone Wilson watched him kicking a ball down her stairs and fight with Ferdinando in her kitchen and knew the time would come when his mother must face facts . |
| 25 | If you ca n't easily remember this , just close your eyes for a moment and recall a time when you felt really well . |
| 26 | They may have to act on the spur of the moment and have no time to reflect and be bound , therefore , to arrest to prevent escape ; but where there is no danger of the person who has ex hypothesi aroused their suspicion that he probably is an ‘ offender ’ attempting to escape , they should make all presently practicable enquiries from persons present or immediately accessible who are likely to be able to answer their enquiries forthwith . |
| 27 | Subjects were asked to collect every stool for five days and record the time each was passed . |
| 28 | Between 1750 and 1755 he entered poems five times for the annual Seatonian prize at Cambridge and won every time . |
| 29 | It requires employers to meet the costs and plan the time for courses . |
| 30 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |