Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 It 'll be a long , long time before anyone in Orkney or Scotia has the time or the heart for shipbuilding , and if the King 's stupid enough to force it on them , they 'll defy him , or starve .
2 The main one was that Kenneth wanted no time between speeches .
3 It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate .
4 It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention .
5 Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it .
6 Astonishing though it may seem , it was during this period of external and internal tension that Franco found the time and tranquillity necessary to write a novel , which was later converted into a film script .
7 ( The arrow simply indicates that X precedes the time of observation . )
8 It all happened so fast that Jenna had no time to move .
9 Georg was standing there and although Busacher had no time for the disagreeable young man , he had to concede that Georg , in dinner jacket and black tie , was extremely handsome .
10 We felt it was important that smokers limited the time they spend away from their desks .
11 Making the capacitance and resistance yields a time constant RC = 1 ms and leads to rejection at a frequency of 160 Hz , for example .
12 It looks increasingly as if Moscow has no time for such trivial questions .
13 As we have seen , the Marxist perspective on stratification and inequality envisages a time when class inequality can and will eventually disappear , after the destruction of capitalism and its replacement by a new socioeconomic order .
14 But Sikes and Toby wasted no time .
15 Cleo thought at first that the net would only drift right through the spirit , but it swiftly formed a sparkling ball round its prey , and Apanage lost no time in drawing the opening of the silk tightly together .
16 Spanish Christendom thus enjoyed a respite and Alfonso lost no time in consolidating his battered forces .
17 Bureaucrat and radical have no time for each other , but they are both undermining traditional humanism .
18 The pool on the crew deck was deserted , and Lindsey wasted no time before diving in head first from the side .
19 I guess i have to start watching these games again sometime soon — have nt seen them for years — i could relive the period — watching the games and sending out match reports to rec.sport.soccer the day after — 4 years after the events took place — sort of a madmans project i guess … but could have been — really — fun if i had the time ( ie no work & no wife/kid … )
20 Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so .
21 With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’
22 Ali and Ahmed made a time to meet on the beach to fish .
23 He was also keen to return North and Lawrence wasted no time when he took over at Ayresome Park .
24 And Lawrence wasted no time responding to that challenge and clearing the decks at Ayresome Park .
25 10 years ago BBC1 's Last of the Summer Wine was going strong as Foggy and Clegg decided the time had come to replace Compo 's well-worn trousers .
26 Ferrières itself was south of Paris , between Sens and Orléans , both sees whose bishops were supporting Charles ; but its rich dependent house of St-Josse near Quentovic was in the area that fell under Lothar 's control in September 840 , and Lothar lost no time in handing it over to one of his own clerks .
27 At Swans ' Meadow , Charlotte and Ursula had no time to brood .
28 But even if ministers have the time to canvass views from a multitude of different organisations , there is a risk that the hospitality sector 's views will be ignored by Government when too many diverse and conflicting responses are made .
29 All the men in the University seemed to be married or gay or scientists , and Robyn had no time or energy to look further afield .
30 The Scots will rest in Sydney before flying to Hong Kong tomorrow and Morgan said the time would be ‘ well-used ’ as far as treatment for Appleson was concerned .
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