Example sentences of "[adj] time [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another database book from Kuma , this time looking at the Windows database system from Harley Systems , is ‘ Skylight Illustrated ’ by Richard Hunt . |
| 2 | The following year the new President , a Presbyterian , had to repeat the injunction , this time directed at the gallery , insisting that there be no applause , either ‘ by our hands , and still less by our feet ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 4 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 5 | After Broadman had left , at a run , the alchemist spent some time staring at the ceiling . |
| 6 | They actually do n't spend too much time looking at the screen , they 're actually using dumb terminals to enter data very quickly . |
| 7 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 9 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 10 | It might then be a good time to look at the original sources of stress which created these symptoms in the first place . |
| 11 | They were having a great time looking at the animals and listening as we explained which countries they were all from . |
| 12 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 13 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 14 | First , they were able to spend more time looking at the characteristics of the turbulent environment outside the plant and exploring the implications of specific developments for their operation . |
| 15 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 16 | It should have spent a little more time looking at the serious work being carried out by the Health Education Authority and less time on carping criticisms of the authority 's work . |
| 17 | One of the tests of the success of this training in " picture reading " will be that pupils will gradually spend more and more time looking at the picture , and " reading " it at various levels ( see Box 4 ) . |
| 18 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 19 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 20 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 21 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 22 | Do level one and level two , the ones that you you have to do and if there 's any time left at the end of the year do the ones that that you missed out . |
| 23 | The timing control allows your heating to come on up to six times a day , with each time set at a different temperature . |
| 24 | So court dominates St Aldate 's throughout the war , and I think therefore we should spend just a little time looking at the people involved , erm but not too much . |
| 25 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 26 | Here the campus is king and no breath of doubt is admitted that time spent at a university is the decisive influence on life , even if the claims of life take one willingly , even defiantly , out of universities forever . |
| 27 | Your COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday is carefully planned to give you the maximum time spent at the EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park , whilst your travel and accommodation arrangements have been sensibly selected to combine comfort and convenience at truly low prices . |