Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 They may need a little time to think about it , but they 'll try most things once .
2 Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview .
3 To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it .
4 You should specify a relative time in the format dddd hh:mm .
5 It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working .
6 Before you get too political you must remember the only time I 've been actively political was for an independent candidate .
7 A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ ,
8 The locals , in theory , should have a better time of it , the grapevine telling them where the ice is best .
9 To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time .
10 It seemed that it must take a long time for such peace to be broken .
11 A person must have a reasonable time to prepare his case .
12 Betty and Joanne must have a hard time managing . ’
13 If your attitude to me is anything to go by , Petula must have a thin time of it . ’
14 ‘ Maybe we should take a little time out … just the two of us …
15 You should enter an approximate time for this media unit to transfer a 512 byte block of data .
16 Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally .
17 It seems to me that you should leave a little time for romance . ’
18 Those days must seem a long time ago .
19 As this is a new ( as opposed to a rebuilt second hand ) engine it should last a long time and parts are available worldwide .
20 They should last a long time , and can be stripped down and boiled to clean them .
21 Any Party wishing to make any such publication or disclosure shall in requesting such consent submit details of the intended publication or disclosure to the Chairman of the Project Committee and may specify a reasonable time within which consent is to be given .
22 For example a particular combination of kinetic and chemical energy at a certain temperature may give a cleaning time of ten minutes .
23 I 'm thankful you 'll stay the extra time . ’
24 He knows that if he fails the first time , he 'll win the second time , if not the third time .
25 Of the latter fault he says : ‘ I 've learned how to fix that , so I 'll know the next time . ’
26 I thought we might need the extra time to help consolidate our position .
27 ‘ We might wait a long time ! ’ he said .
28 Me , too , come to that — if you do n't come , he 'll spend the whole time fretting about the book . ’
29 It 'll run the same time as the Metro .
30 In Prague the talk is of starting with a break-up of the monopolies , and letting the market rip later — but de-monopolising the economy might take a long time .
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