Example sentences of "[to-vb] the time " in BNC.
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1 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
2 | Howell has taken up a job in Aberdeen and feels he may no longer be able to spare the time to travel back to Edinburgh each weekend . |
3 | The top reporters may not be able to spare the time and you could end up with the story being written by someone rather less familiar with the subject , whereas a quick telephone call or fax could mean that the story gets to the person you want . |
4 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
5 | ‘ Thank you , Charlie , ’ Hari said , ‘ there 's good of you to spare the time to come to help us out . ’ |
6 | But if you are prepared to spare the time , settle down in an armchair and explore among the oldies in a good descriptive catalogue like David Austin 's Handbook of Roses ( see Bibliography ) , who knows what nuggets of gold you might find to fit into your garden ? |
7 | Er that help is , there are fewer to draw from , i it 's also far more difficult for them to spare the time , the pressures on the academics are considerable nowadays . |
8 | Maybe he wo n't be able to spare the time . |
9 | I hope that you will be able to spare the time to complete this form . |
10 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
11 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
12 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
13 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
14 | Fee estimate : It is difficult to estimate the time involvement or costs of this category of work as this is a function of the number of funding sources approached and the number of meetings required . |
15 | What a good investment a greenhouse can be if you are prepared to invest the time necessary to make it work for you . |
16 | One person may wish to dedicate more of his time to other pursuits and therefore accept the authority of a reasonably just and competent government over a whole range of issues regarding which another may prefer to decide for himself , and be willing to invest the time and effort it takes to enable himself to decide wisely . |
17 | ‘ Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that … ’ it would be interesting to compare the time spent by Flaubert making sure that his heroine had the rare and difficult eyes of a tragic adulteress with the time spent by Dr Starkie in carelessly selling him short . |
18 | Obviously , it is not legitimate to compare the time taken for these two different tasks , so Dooling used two different types of context for each task . |
19 | We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment . |
20 | This option enables you to adjust the time of the next LIFESPAN system shut down . |
21 | You must have LIFESPAN Manager privilege to adjust the time to shut down . |
22 | If the adverbials in the above examples were not included in the clause , one would have to rely entirely on the context to establish the time of the event . |
23 | Once this is achieved , the person can be encouraged to increase the time between visits to the toilet . |
24 | Hence faulty diagnosis is only likely to increase the time taken . |
25 | Additional capacitors could also be used to increase the time period . |
26 | The effect they have on performance is to increase the time taken for transactions on the Working-Set database . |
27 | It would be possible for the government of the day utterly to monopolise the time of the House fur its own legislation . |
28 | It can be used simply to indicate the time actually worked on a given job . |
29 | It can be used simply to indicate the time actually worked on a given job . |
30 | There is little sign that the government was able to find the time or the inclination to assess sceptically the framework within which balance-of-payments policy was conducted . |