Example sentences of "[vb base] the time " in BNC.

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1 This research project investigates the suggestion that such spatial rehearsal is primarily motor in nature and that factors which influence the time to rehearse an item will also affect memory span .
2 We bring the time of our people , resources in kind , and skills and expertise .
3 At the least , Dr Mathew 's computer-instrument will put music within the grasp of would-be musicians who lack the time or inclination to learn how to play .
4 For the absolute beginner and those who lack the time or enthusiasm , the selection of a remedy can take place by considering primarily the very important symptoms of the remedies which have been printed in bold type , ignoring all the information in ordinary type .
5 The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back .
6 For this the clients , mostly professional people and businessmen who lack the time to organise their own expeditions , but who have some impressive climbing pedigrees , will get full sherpa support , oxygen and a well-stocked chain of camps along the standard South Col route from Nepal .
7 We judge the time of day by the relative positions of the hands against the scale of hours , minutes and seconds printed on the watch face .
8 We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example .
9 The most important thing in socialising is that you make the time and spend the effort to keep those friends that you do have .
10 Make the time to walk by the lovely nearby Avich Falls if you can .
11 Erm that 's I mean I would really recommend that you make the time .
12 These enable the original owner of the deposit to sell its ownership to a third party if the need arises and make the time deposit instantly realisable , albeit at a price .
13 It 's it 's th the building and the blocks of things in in in the in the courtyard that make the time .
14 He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’
15 I mean the time for you being adventurous was earlier , and I mean when you retire you 've got to think about capital er protection as well .
16 ‘ You mean the time travelling ?
17 Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with .
18 ‘ Our staffing levels constrain the time off which can be allowed ’ …
19 You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout .
20 They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it .
21 Of course the idea came to nothing ; in fact , one gets the impression , throughout this period , that there were a great many ideas floating about whose sole value was to console , and occupy the time of , those who had them .
22 They say the time is right , while they 're beating the Americans at their own game .
23 Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’
24 FORGET the time recorded by Clydal Pal in the opening heats of the Ulster Derby ( 550 ) and give him some support in the first semi-final at Dunmore Stadium tomorrow night .
25 They appreciate the humour and find the lesson units neatly fit the time we have to spend with them in class .
26 I signed Tommy Titmouse in a scrawl and put the time .
27 You will sometimes be asked to er look at something like that and then put the time signature in .
28 Once in to the BIOS setup you will find it very easy to follow the instructions to change the system clock and so put the time right once and for all — but be careful not to change anything else !
29 A statement by the governor of the emirate 's Central Bank in February noted that 650 wells were still on fire and put the time needed to resume output at 9 months .
30 Come about midnight put the time plan .
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