Example sentences of "[adj] time to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went down the stairs again , this time to another room , a smaller reception room . |
| 2 | Now he was back on contract ; this time to Old Man Lever . |
| 3 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 4 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 5 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 6 | The median time to full recovery as judged by the patient was 12 days — that is , two days after the Foley drainage catheter was removed and ranged from two to 28 days . |
| 7 | We expect that our median time to this decision will be less than eight weeks , and we have , in exceptional circumstances , peer reviewed papers and published them within a fortnight of submission . |
| 8 | Hence he never bothered to devote much time to Spanish affairs ; wishful thinking and ignorance exposed his views on the value of Spain to a series of disillusionments . |
| 9 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 10 | Walter Benjamin falls victim a second time to German policy |
| 11 | Peter , can I just say one thing , I 've er , erm , Jane do n't get me wrong I 'm not nit-picking right , but obviously erm , it must be er , the ideal time to cold call , nine to twelve , because Jane 's got cold calling down and Linda , from nine to twelve . |
| 12 | An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose . |
| 13 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 14 | Obviously , if one particular question is compulsory and has for example a weighting of 1½ then you must allocate 50 per cent more time to this question than to the others . |
| 15 | At the height of the energy crisis , the enactment of the Energy Supply and Environmental Co-ordination Act of June 1974 suspended the emission standards until 1977 and 1978 to allow vehicle manufacturers to devote more time to improving fuel economy . |
| 16 | There has been a substantial increase in coverage of the Chamber and of committees in regional broadcasting ; some regions , BBC and ITV , have generated good week-end reviews which give more time to back-bench MPs . |
| 17 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 18 | If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end . |
| 19 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 20 | She had always devoted considerable time to patient observation of her surroundings , her staff and humanity in general and , now , her assessment of women 's needs and desires precisely matched the throwback mood of the Seventies . |
| 21 | In the nineteenth century , many middle class women devoted considerable time to philanthropic work and local politics ; a single woman such as Louisa Twining worked five days a week as a Poor Law Guardian between 1884 and 1890 . |
| 22 | I think I 'll devote my spare time to some sleuthing , to find out where the handsome Miguel really comes from . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In a changing environment , where people have to work for a living , it is not so easy to give all your spare time to running golf . ’ |
| 24 | While this may be socially desirable in the LFA , until the reduction and partial elimination of capital grants in December 1984 , there were fears that pastures and meadows ( hitherto traditionally managed ) , small wetlands and areas of rough grazing on small farms in the UK uplands would be subject for the first time to agricultural intensification . |
| 25 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 26 | Prizemoney was awarded for the first time to competing teams in 1976 . |
| 27 | Fighting spread for the first time to Serbian territory on Nov. 5 and 6 , when Croatian forces were reported to have attacked Serbian villages . |
| 28 | The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation . |
| 29 | The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange . |
| 30 | The principle of ‘ dual control ’ ( by the public authority and by a voluntary body ) was extended for the first time to secondary schools . |