Example sentences of "time to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was time to rope up . |
| 2 | Treatment of glue ear considerably shortened the time to fluid resolution , combined adenoidectomy and tube insertion being better than either procedure alone . |
| 3 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 4 | The mean time to treatment was 15 hours . |
| 5 | Available evidence suggests that the efficacy of coronary thrombolysis could be augmented by shortening the time to treatment , by improving of the potency and specificity of fibrin-dissolving agents , by improving co-therapy with anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents , or by a combination of all of these . |
| 6 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 7 | By the end of the healing phase , 19 ( 0.99% ) of the 1923 patients who had fulfilled the entry criteria had failed to heal : the time to healing was 12 weeks in 76 patients ( 3.95% ) , 24 weeks in 29 patients ( 1.51% ) , and greater than 24 weeks in seven patients ( 0.36% ) . |
| 8 | Effect of risk factors on time to healing |
| 9 | The effect of the risk factors on the time to healing was cumulative : patients with one , two , and three or more risk factors needed progressively longer courses of treatment to achieve ulcer healing ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 10 | The effect of these factors was cumulative in that the proportion of patients unhealed at each time point and the mean time to healing increased progressively with the number of risk factors to which the patient was exposed . |
| 11 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 12 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 13 | The momentary lapse gave Donna time to edge away and she pressed so hard on the accelerator she feared she might shove her foot through the very floor of the car . |
| 14 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 15 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 16 | Wo n't have time to appetite . |
| 17 | Time to back track and then on we go . |
| 18 | Robbie recognised that it was time to back down . |
| 19 | It would surely be tempting providence to suggest a prominent showing in the Benson & Hedges because they will require , to use gardening vernacular , ‘ a little time to bed down . ’ |
| 20 | When they quit the market and ICI became our main supplier , the relationship took time to bed down but ICI 's performance now is excellent . ’ |
| 21 | But she quotes approvingly our television critic , Richard Last , a month or so back : ‘ Melvyn Bragg 's controversial A Time to Dance ( BBC1 ) ended on a believably tender note , suggesting that it was his producer or director , rather than the author , who miscalculated the grossness of earlier episodes . ’ |
| 22 | Last week we cheekily compared Melvyn Bragg 's love scenes from A Time To Dance with those of Jackie Collins , Harold Robbins et al . |
| 23 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 24 | We have two signed hardback copies from Hodder & Stoughton of A Time To Dance to give away . |
| 25 | First out of the hat was John Riley of Fribourg , Switzerland , who receives a signed copy of Melvyn 's meisterwork , A Time To Dance . |
| 26 | WORST PERFORMANCE BY A SEXUAL BEING : It has to be poor old Ronald Pickup , for his part in Melvyn Bragg 's TV adaptation of his own novel , A Time To Dance . |
| 27 | More recently she was seen in the television adaptation of Melvyn Bragg 's novel A Time To Dance . |
| 28 | He singled out Melvyn Bragg 's controversial BBC drama series A Time to Dance , in which a violent rape scene was shown shortly after 9pm . |
| 29 | I understand why the hon. Gentleman may be frothing at the mouth at the thought that , after all the years that he has spent preparing as shadow arts Minister , were the Labour party to be elected — horror of horrors — it would not be him but Melvyn ’ Time to Dance ’ Bragg who would be Labour 's arts Minister . |
| 30 | Tonight 's movies are 11 Harrowhouse , an engaging London diamond heist romp with John Gielgud , Trevor Howard and James Mason and Le Petomane where Leonard Rossiter plays an early 20th Century Frenchman who makes a living by farting in time to music . |