Example sentences of "time to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the opposite pavement , three West Indian boys waggled their bodies in time to music coming from a nearby shop . |
| 32 | In 45-minute classes infants grapple with walking in time to music , marching , pony-trotting ; facial expressions and gestures are tested , too . |
| 33 | From that year onwards , he became progressively more absent from the conduct of daily political affairs , relying as much on the inertia of the system he had created as on his ministers to keep the country running , while he devoted increasing amounts of time to hunting , shooting and fishing . |
| 34 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 35 | Stephen Smailes , Stockton cricket buff and councillor , is offering 50p a time to charity ( yet to be decided ) for each catch and stumping . |
| 36 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 37 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 38 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 39 | The difference is greater , the higher the rate of discount and the longer the time to maturity . |
| 40 | The current yield is therefore only really useful when there is a long time to maturity , in which case the capital gain or loss element will be small . |
| 41 | This example illustrates an important consideration which is that not only does the risk of any position increase dramatically with the length of time to maturity but also that the hedge ratio is only valid for very small increments of time . |
| 42 | June Barraclough 's A Time to Love ( Methuen , £12.95 ) spans both World Wars and paints a vivid picture of the loves and sorrows of the characters in the lives of two women friends . |
| 43 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 44 | This last suggestion might be taken more seriously as the working week gets shorter and if the pay penalties for devoting time to caring were reduced . |
| 45 | The " subsequent actualization " sense of the to infinitive also involves this double position of the support : person as support of the event of the finite verb is represented as prior in time to person as support of the infinitive 's event . |
| 46 | ‘ You have n't time to fiddle-faddle about like that . ’ |
| 47 | And I did n't have time to pussyfoot around . |
| 48 | In 1988 he moved again , this time to Lotus , but he had to be content with watching the McLaren duo of Alain Prost and fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna in front of him for most of the season . |
| 49 | If both consultants and house officers are to give dedicated time to education , then less clinical work will be achieved and waiting lists will grow longer . |
| 50 | Feeling overloaded with routine and emergency clinical work ( there are no deputising services in Bassetlaw ) and with administration , he did not see how he and his colleagues could commit any extra time to assessment . |
| 51 | This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to . |
| 52 | The time value components of the option premiums quoted get larger as the time to expiry lengthens . |
| 53 | The following equations need to be estimated : , where P is the market price ( 310p ) , EX is the exercise or subscription price ( 255p ) , rf is the risk-free rate of interest ( 0.12 per cent ) , is the standard deviation of the security which in the case of Polly Peck is ( O.59 ) , t is the time to expiry as a fraction of a year ( 21/365=0.058 ) , C is the estimated value of the call which in this case is the value of a complete right , and e is the natural logarithm base ( 2.7183 ) . |
| 54 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 55 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 56 | From manufacturing to retail , from workshop to shop work , from full time to part time . |
| 57 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |
| 58 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 59 | With three children there is barely time to shit , let alone read ! ’ |
| 60 | It 's time to shit or bust . |