Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You must have LIFESPAN Manager privilege to adjust the time to shut down . |
| 4 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 5 | Graham reluctantly pushed one of the cassettes into the system , waved the cigarette smoke irritably from his face , then turned his attention to the New York skyline and started to name the numerous skyscrapers to himself in an attempt to pass the time . |
| 6 | She knew that Maggie was being polite , trawling for subjects to pass the time till she could safely move away . |
| 7 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 8 | Given this scenario one would have thought that it was clear for all to see that what is required are urgent steps to reduce the time , and opportunity for offending , between being apprehended for an offence and having that offence dealt with by the courts . |
| 9 | You may open your eyes to check the time , but do not use an alarm . |
| 10 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Scottish athletes and officials yesterday angrily rejected as ‘ useless ’ an offer by the Scottish Commonwealth Games Council to extend the time limit to achieve the qualifying standards for New Zealand . |
| 12 | My plan to ignore the time totally ( it would only depress me ! ) went badly wrong . |
| 13 | Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century . |
| 14 | Or the little portable sundials which shepherds used to carry up into the mountains to tell the time by ; or , a last reassuringly bucolic reminder that Bayonne 's fighting days are over , an English bayonet from the Napoleonic wars converted for stripping corn-cobs . |
| 15 | Help your child to tell the time with this nursery clock which has a solid pine surround and clown design . |
| 16 | Horses wo n't be airsick all over your lap ; they do n't drone on about overbooked hotels , or insist on playing Scrabble to pass the time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Why he needed to choose this moment to pass the time of day with all and sundry and — good grief ! — take a wad of notes from his back pocket and count them out with infuriating slowness — was anybody 's guess . |
| 19 | First , we can use hoards to define the time individual coin types remained in circulation , since we can tell from them how long a particular coin continued to be available for hoarders . |
| 20 | The society , which claims wide support in the Commons and the Lords , will campaign against embryo research and aim to introduce its own amendment to reduce the time limit for abortion to 18 weeks . |
| 21 | The generation gap makes it difficult , at my age , to find the generosity to devote the time and effort required to figure out what the bright young things are up to . |
| 22 | It is also worth noting that there are several teaching points that could usefully be made at a draft stage in Thomas 's work , notably the need to review the time sequence of the verbs in the penultimate sentence . |
| 23 | There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers . |
| 24 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 25 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 28 | At one point , Karpov had to make 10 moves in one minute to reach the time control at move 40 . |
| 29 | You use this procedure to set the time , date , size of floppy drives A and B ( if fitted ) and the type of monitor or ‘ primary display ’ . |
| 30 | The time limit in Ord. 53 suffers from three major defects : first , the basic limit of three months is too short and may , indeed , be contrary to EC law ; secondly , not even the three months is an entitlement : a case may be struck out for undue delay even if brought within three months ; and thirdly , there is a discretion to extend the time limit on vague grounds , and this creates uncertainty . |