Example sentences of "[verb] time and [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To assist the management in organising staff , shifts , holidays and rotas utilising time and equipment a useful statistic is calculating the average length of stay of the guest .
2 ‘ No , and it needs time and discipline as well as motivation , ’ Belinda murmured , the instinctive empathy she had felt for Faye growing as she heard more of the painter 's story .
3 This needs time and sensitivity — not money .
4 He contributed time and money generously to Warrington : he was mayor in 1882 , alderman in 1885 , and freeman in 1891 ; he built a working-men 's mission , and supported schools , the library , the infirmary , and other institutions .
5 Thus , so the charge runs , he evacuated time and history , and in particular our present and future , of real theological significance .
6 He would need time and peace to prepare himself for whatever he decided .
7 Such a development required a strong defence , and the point to which they referred time and time again was that ‘ modern conditions ’ made it imperative that education be structured into a coherent national system , with special attention being paid to working-class youth , not merely to trade classes for apprentices , but to the mass of young workers .
8 Until now this final result involved time and effort on the part of the host .
9 With the war going so well now , and with the perceptible decline in the workload after the feats of ‘ 44 , and with the general burgeoning of confidence and well-being , why , your camp doctor is agreeably surprised to find time and leisure to pursue his hobbies .
10 This , in turn , was the subject of a celebrated book by the German writer , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , who argued that sculpture was not a fit medium for representing time and movement .
11 Mr Crangle tried time and time again to reason with the Headmaster , but their arguments just became louder and louder .
12 Sir Antony , in a letter to Senator John Warner , who is the leading Republican on the Senate armed services committee , said that ‘ any withholding of productive funding … would have a knock-on effect which could delay the arrival of the first missiles for the Royal Navy , and continue to impose time and cost penalties on the British Trident programme ’ .
13 Sayre intentionally did not include time and movement information in his encoding scheme .
14 On the other hand , there is a general warm acceptance of the monarchy , which has been revealed time and time again by public opinion polls ( e.g. National Opinion Poll , 1986 ; Gallup , 1976 ; see surveys of polls in Harris , 1966 ; Norton , 1984 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) .
15 Polymers , however , because of the weak van der Waals ' binding forces involved in interchain interactions , show time and temperature effects at much lower stresses and over smaller temperature ranges , and the practical consequences of this dependence are many .
16 Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development .
17 Close co-operation with the United States was seen as a means of saving time and money with little regard to the risks of losing some national independence .
18 Personal computers for management use is a major area of Apple usage , where planning , analysing , managing and assistance with decision evaluation have made the micro a versatile and powerful tool for managers of all descriptions , saving time and money and helping them to be far more effective in their jobs .
19 The database may take quite some time to establish , but if networked it will enable scientific , garden , library and photographic staff to check for the existence of a slide before new work is undertaken , thus saving time and money .
20 Small items of cash are kept out of the cash book , thus saving time and space .
21 The operative adapts to the idea of saving time and bonus calculations are greatly simplified .
22 A package can come into its own here , saving time and trouble
23 In its medium of exchange role , money provides wealth-holders with a convenience yield in the sense of saving time and effort in undertaking transactions .
24 The dive log screen displays maximum depth , dive time and surface interval for the last ten dives .
25 In novice mode , the screen shows current depth , no-stop time , dive time and cylinder contents .
26 Yeah , oh I know I 've said time and time again to them if you park up a bit , you know that house
27 The following formulae will give time and distance from a Beacon : Time in minutes Seconds flown between bearings Degrees of bearing change
28 The 1 in 60 rule will then give time and distance from the NDB .
29 The following formulae will give time and distance from a beacon : Time in minutes Seconds flown between bearings degrees of bearing change Distance in nm TAS ( or G/S ) x minutes flown degrees of bearing change .
30 Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in .
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