Example sentences of "[prep] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 2 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 3 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 4 | A comparatively lazy day with plenty of time to ooh and aah . |
| 5 | ‘ But what I want is a bit of time to myself . |
| 6 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 7 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |
| 8 | ‘ If you have an aim for your children , I think it is a waste of time to just let them dilly-dally with any old person . |
| 9 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 10 | This name was changed over a period of time to the name we know today , Rottweil . |
| 11 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 12 | Like Plotinus before him , St Augustine , in Book XI of his Confessions , submitted Aristotle 's concept of time to searching criticism . |
| 13 | There is nobody making you study , you have to motivate yourself , dedicating a certain amount of time to a better appreciation of the horse and its care . |
| 14 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 15 | She always gets me into an argument and I have to devote a lot of time to the dispute . |
| 16 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 17 | A good length of time to be in this position is about twenty minutes . |
| 18 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 19 | The birth of a baby results in some loss of intimacy in marriage , a loss of space at home , a loss of time to oneself , and a loss of physical and financial resources to manage additional demands and responsibilities . |
| 20 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 21 | Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance , one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes . |
| 22 | She is the great chain of mothers and daughters , her life stretching from the dawn of time to an inconceivably distant future . |
| 23 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 24 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 25 | She 's actually a really nice woman and she took a lot of time to really explain to me what was going on with her at that time . |
| 26 | And I had a lot of time to myself . |
| 27 | The poet William Dunbar , born in East Lothian and educated at St Andrews , celebrated James 's marriage to Margaret Tudor of England — a liaison which led in the fullness of time to the Stewart succession to the throne of England — with a poem , The Thistle and the Rose , and summed up his entourage thus : |
| 28 | He devoted a lot of time to the personal relationships of politics and to conducting them in a mollifying , unhurried way . |
| 29 | So he manages to dedicate an immense amount of time to people . |
| 30 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |