Example sentences of "[vb -s] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covers a time period of 2.24 minutes in two minute steps . |
| 2 | When the chart specifies a time outbound such as the 3 minutes on the adjoining pattern , such time is meaningless unless allied with a specific speed to produce a specific distance . |
| 3 | The social security committee wants a time limit of six months on the recovery process . |
| 4 | The final recipient has still got to get on with the work based on this small amount of information , only now with DOPACS he has a time limit . |
| 5 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |
| 6 | As we have seen , the Marxist perspective on stratification and inequality envisages a time when class inequality can and will eventually disappear , after the destruction of capitalism and its replacement by a new socioeconomic order . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 8 | Haslam recalls a time when Sir Peter Allen , then the ICI main board director responsible for plastics , predicted at a small dinner party at the ICI guest house at Welwyn Garden City that the market price for polythene would drop from the current 4s a pound to 1s 6d a pound within six months . |
| 9 | Fred Van Dyke , a pioneer of the North Shore breaks , recalls a time in the late fifties when he and Pat Curren ( Tom Curren 's father ) were sitting on the beach at Banzai and Pat said , ‘ Maybe in two thousand years this place will be surfed . ’ |
| 10 | This offers a time limited contract and very definite expectations of therapist intervention . |
| 11 | This organization reflects a time sequence and is the basis of the disease model of medicine . |
| 12 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 13 | If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram . |
| 14 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 15 | Dismissal and striking out ( save for want of prosecution ) are conditional on the court first having made an " unless " order , that is an order which sets a time limit for compliance after which an order for dismissal and striking out may be made ( Ord 22 , r 3 ) . |
| 16 | Although this becomes a time consuming procedure , several negative brushings effectively excludes a diagnosis of biliary neoplasm . |
| 17 | But despite its bland style , it hides a time bomb for Britain , for the reports are on southern Africa . |
| 18 | He proposes a time perspective in the analysis of skill level and the pattern of movement . |
| 19 | It thus delineates a time when Martin and Jacques were active as court musicians . |
| 20 | Obviously we shall never know whether fossil species were capable of interbreeding until somebody invents a time machine , and we can go back and see for ourselves ! |
| 21 | There comes a time in every project , he wrote , when it becomes clear that a head is no match for a wall . |
| 22 | ‘ For there comes a time when he absolutely must go somewhere . ’ |
| 23 | And perhaps most people qualified to judge would concede that there comes a time early in any study of Joyce where the student has to beat the Dublin streets on foot . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's true , ’ he says , ‘ there comes a time in your life when comfort matters . |
| 25 | After this comes a time of great anger and rage . |
| 26 | After this initial time of taking in the news and trying to deal with its implications comes a time of absorbing the message given and trying to act on it . |
| 27 | It can be masked for a while and often goes quite unrecognized , but there comes a time when it is not possible to disguise it and the reaction becomes an overwhelming one . |
| 28 | The Whips will be in overdrive and there comes a time when even a politician prefers early bed and a mug of Horlicks to the thought of another late night in the lobbies . |
| 29 | There comes a time in many of our lives when we say ‘ Girl , get yourself a piece of paper ’ . |
| 30 | Whatever your beliefs with regard to an after-life , there comes a time when you realise that you cry only for yourself , for your loneliness and the fact that you have been left behind . |