Example sentences of "find the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 3 | To find the time of day , use a slip of white paper to blank out three of the discs . |
| 4 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 5 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 6 | R is difficult when you are at work all week , to find the time and it is not much fun spending your only free time cleaning . |
| 7 | ‘ Where I 'm supposed to find the time to prepare everything I do n't know ! |
| 8 | It is difficult within organisational constraints for social workers to find the time to do marital work and it is even harder to find time to do so for elderly couples . |
| 9 | So busy are international players that they are lucky if they are able to find the time even in summer to tie the knot . |
| 10 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 11 | ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’ |
| 12 | One day , I do hope to find the time to make a positive contribution towards the Convocation . |
| 13 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 14 | This is accomplished by first differentiating the freewheeling current signal and then using a comparator to find the time instants at which there is 110 change of current . |
| 15 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 16 | It sounds a lame excuse , I know , but I never seem to be able to find the time . |
| 17 | But dance has long been a popular option at Haughton where teacher Jenny Ruston says its hard to find the time to meet all the demand from boys and girls . |
| 18 | But you all may be thinking , that is all well and good , but where are we going to find the time , the support , and the resources to do this . |
| 19 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 20 | Retrieving the cycle , Harry found the time passing slowly to nightfall , but next day , needing water , he went into Lubeck , passing by an aircraft factory where Dornier 217 fuselages were being worked on . |
| 21 | ‘ This will tell how in those far-off days , I , as a little girl , with many times an empty tummy , found the time to dance … |
| 22 | He found the time to write about his travels when he was a prisoner-of-war years after his great journey through the Hindu Kush , the Pamirs , Kashgar , Yarkand and the Gobi Desert to reach Beijing in search of trade in 1275 . |
| 23 | Did the Egyptians , for instance , whose kings , at the high point of Egyptian farming , found the time to create garden-like enclosures in which to hunt , have any such memory ? |
| 24 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 25 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 26 | Between December and March , Mozart found the time to write three more piano concertos for his subscription concerts ( K.482 in E flat , K.488 in A , and K.491 in C minor ) . |
| 27 | I just ca n't remember when I found the time to wash my hair and iron creases into my flares . |
| 28 | The 1919 report introduced an era of lip-service to ‘ reform and rehabilitation ’ , but neither the British , preoccupied with ‘ law and order ’ as the independence movement gained strength , nor any Indian government after 1947 , found the time or the resolve necessary for dismantling the old Draconian system . |
| 29 | Between the tournaments and all that smiling at the cameras , one wondered how they found the time and the energy to do all those things that the popular press said they did . |
| 30 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |