Example sentences of "tell the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 2 | Watches that tell the time in 18 different languages , make toast and have so many knobs and dials that the clock face is completely obscured . |
| 3 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 4 | It 's an astronomical device based on a twenty-four-hour pattern which tells the time of day , the position of the moon , the constellations of the zodiac . |
| 5 | Ah , well what value is it , a watch tells the time whether it 's three hundred pounds or three , three pounds |
| 6 | Even at first assessment the difficulties faced by these dementia sufferers are apparent : two-thirds could not identify three coins , three out of five could not name three or four parts of a watch , and one half could not tell the time or correctly select a medicine bottle . |
| 7 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
| 8 | From it I learn that a seven year old has achieved a satisfactory standard if he can tell the time accurately in units of five minutes ! ) . |
| 9 | But her hand was shaking so much that she could not tell the time . |
| 10 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 11 | So your watch should tell the time accurately . |
| 12 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
| 13 | And just to help you tell the time there are these unidentified flying objects in little nests with numbers on . |
| 14 | Functional rather than ostentatious , for telling the time rather than for telling others who he was . |
| 15 | The clock did a lot more besides telling the time of day . |
| 16 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 17 | As Southern has remarked , this passage , only part of which I have quoted , illustrates the difficulties encountered in those days of telling the time and Walcher 's anxiety for precision in seeking to establish the exact correlation between the phases of the moon and the solar calendar . |
| 18 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 19 | Finally a simple set of performance tests was sought , to assess whether respondents could actually perform some of the basic activities of daily living ( such as counting money , telling the time , reading medicine bottle instructions ) . |
| 20 | This is a popular theme , as children enjoy telling the time . |
| 21 | Also known as ‘ mass clocks ’ they offered a means of telling the time for church services : an appropriately placed stick cast a shadow on the hour-scale . |
| 22 | Learning how we measure time is something that could link effectively with cross-curricular work on telling the time , learning about the calendar and the seasons . |
| 23 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 24 | Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century . |
| 25 | But items such as the ability to name four parts of a watch , to tell the time , to identify three coins , and follow verbal and written instructions in order to select the correct one of two tablet bottles , had more discriminatory power . |
| 26 | Bounderby claims to have learned to tell the time from studying its steeple clock ‘ under the direction of a drunken cripple , who was a convicted thief , and an incorrigible vagrant ’ , i.e. a typical denizen of the St Giles district , HT i 4 . |
| 27 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 28 | Help your child to tell the time with this nursery clock which has a solid pine surround and clown design . |
| 29 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 30 | If you 'd like your kids to learn how to tell the time , treat the younger members of the family to their own watch from the ‘ Flik Flak Teaching ’ range . |