Example sentences of "the delay " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is the delay perpetual ? |
| 2 | Half-way through the last act we 'll call a doctor , and the police if you like — they wo n't stop the show then and the delay wo n't harm Bunty , poor little cow . ’ |
| 3 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 4 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 5 | The time limit for making claims is three months ( or twelve months if there is good reason for the delay ) . |
| 6 | Anxious to exploit government embarrassment over the delay in its programme for electricity privatisation , he added : ‘ Energy policy is too critical to the future of this nation to leave to the short-term whims of market forces . |
| 7 | But Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , whose survey of appraisal in the education service was published yesterday , suggested the delay was due to teacher shortages and cost . |
| 8 | Several delegates expressed disappointment at the delay in the electricity privatisation timetable , but Mr Wakeham said he would make no apology . |
| 9 | Frustrated by the delay in the peace talks , Polisario has resumed fighting and claims to have occupied 10 miles of the Moroccan lines . |
| 10 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 11 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 12 | A. Simple reaction time When a light is switched on ( or a note is sounded ) a button must be pressed as quickly as possible ; the delay in doing this is measured . |
| 13 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 14 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 15 | Labour 's City spokeswoman Dr Marjorie Mowlam yesterday claimed the delay was part of a Government attempt to avoid further embarrassment over the affair . |
| 16 | Although he seems sure to remain in the job , the delay has invited speculation . |
| 17 | Although he seems sure to remain in the job , the delay has invited speculation . |
| 18 | Pressed to account for the delay , an embarrassed local official explained that the project was lagging because too few construction workers could pass the drug test required of all job seekers . |
| 19 | Mr Bartle had ruled the delay in notifying Sergeant Robert Goodger and Constables Ian Storrar , Nigel Pratt , Gavin Steff , Terence Chitty and Ivan Szubin of the allegation , and delay in bringing the prosecution was prejudicial and an abuse of the court process . |
| 20 | They said Mr Wicks 's decision was based on the flawed findings that the delay was justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 21 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 22 | The Divisional Court held that the delay in investigating and bringing proceedings against police officers involved in incidents arising out of an industrial dispute at Wapping in East London , amounted to an abuse of the process of the courts and the prosecutions were stopped . |
| 23 | Mr Bartle , the stipendiary magistrate , declined jurisdiction to hear the charges on the ground that the delay in the investigation and prosecution of the case constituted an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 24 | For the DPP Miss Goddard said that mere delay is not capable of being an abuse of the process unless the delay is so great that what is sought by the Crown is no longer the vindication of justice but amounts to oppression or harassment of a defendant . |
| 25 | What had to be demonstrated to the court was that the delay complained of had produced genuine prejudice and unfairness . |
| 26 | In Cherry 's case the magistrate 's conclusion was that the delay was extreme but justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 27 | But their Lordships had concluded that in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's finding that the delay was justified was wholly untenable . |
| 28 | The delay proved wise , since in the meantime pressure of world events had begun to draw the two sides closer together again . |
| 29 | Sir Terence , in particular , is still furious that inflation bounced back into double figures , after all the pain of getting it below 5% in the mid-1980s , and ascribes it to the delay in joining the EMS . |
| 30 | More corrugated iron and concrete and an army sign : ‘ We apologize for the delay Please do not blame us Blame the Terrorists ’ , with another smaller one beside it : ‘ Please take your little home with you ’ . |