Example sentences of "[vb pp] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt it was important that smokers limited the time they spend away from their desks . |
| 2 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 3 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |
| 4 | We 've calculated the time from how deeply it had settled in the mud . |
| 5 | The Ellan Vannin Diaries have obligingly altered the time of their deliveries to a later hour in response to one or two complaints of sleep disturbance . |
| 6 | Babur rings Keith and tells Keith he is the only one who has not arranged the time off yet . |
| 7 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 8 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 9 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 10 | In the end , over 600 people were able to take part in the inquiry , a remarkably high figure given the time required to prepare and attend and the intimidating feel of the proceedings . |
| 11 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 12 | ‘ When the ref makes the scrum come up and back again , like in the Moore case , the packs must be given the time and position to reset properly . |
| 13 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 14 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 15 | Given the time it takes to write and then publish a book , our apparently insatiable appetite for the stuff causes real problems : the satirical observation conceived now is likely to look at best , a little tired , and , at worst , incomprehensible , in twelve to eighteen months ' time . |
| 16 | The senior nurse in the Planning Unit or another suitable senior nurse should be given the time and authority to carry out an establishment " exercise throughout the Health Authority . |
| 17 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 18 | Given the time and resources available to the project it was agreed that we should concentrate on the topics shown in Figure 1 . |
| 19 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 20 | Given the time constraints to which primary teachers have felt increasingly subjected since the introduction of the National Curriculum , this set of issues deserves very careful attention . |
| 21 | In between were dozens of movies whose heroines were all the things the rest of us knew we could be , given the time and the place . |
| 22 | Given the time needed to deal with the residue of Poll Tax no reduction in Support Services , including typing is being suggested at this time and other services are expected to continue as at present . |
| 23 | I thank the Secretary of State for his welcome statement , made with great promptness , given the time scale . |
| 24 | Harvey thrust him aside and , with a gallantry which began even to him to appear to be excessively foolish , given the time and place , dragged Amaranth from the clutches of the mob . |
| 25 | Heading for our connection , a brief glimpse of the sleek city more than justified the time we intend to spend there next week . |
| 26 | So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court . |
| 27 | As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |
| 30 | We have also omitted the time of unpaid informal carers and their lost employment opportunities . |