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

  Next page
No Sentence
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 .
  Next page