Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 2 | Because of the fluctuating nature of the condition strict criteria were required for defining the time when the fluid ceased to persist ; when type B tympanograms changed to type A , C1 , or C2 ; and when an observation was stopped . |
| 3 | It 's in a porn shop , so there 's bums and tits hanging out all around her , and she 's reading aloud from Gramsci , fantastic stuff about seizing the time , the end of oppression — power to the people ! |
| 4 | The act cast a sharp sidelight of acute intelligence upon Orrie 's remark about passing the time . |
| 5 | With transactions data the possibility exists of shortening the time period used ( to hours , say ) , and measuring maturity by the number of hours to delivery . |
| 6 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 7 | ‘ After the third retake , he threatened to take off a bit of clothing every time the scene was done again . |
| 8 | If it is said that it is the use to which such information may be put that can be objectionable , the libertarian might well reply that gossip is an age-old way of passing the time and one of the cements of society . |
| 9 | Running was also a popular way of passing the time int he camps set up around military installations in Iraq . |
| 10 | Running is a pretty boring way of passing the time , but is nevertheless a simple and effective way of staying fit . |
| 11 | It was a good way of passing the time , he thought . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll find a way of passing the time . ’ |
| 13 | Exponents of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy , by searching for absolutes , especially in what is currently limited data , run the danger of having to change their supposition concerning the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of writing every time a new form of literacy practices is identified , which undermines their claims to ‘ universality ’ . |
| 14 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 15 | Various systems of defining the time of mating and the age of the embryos are in use . |
| 16 | He considered the problem of measuring the time taken by a voice in making a single sound . |
| 17 | He had the Jaguar prize firmly in his sights when opting for a steady clear round in Tuesday night 's Rover Classic , instead of attempting a time which might have made it more difficult for Nick Skelton to win on Burmah Serenade . |
| 18 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 19 | Warples ' ( 1980 ) adaptation of the Lopatin ( 1971 ) method of calculating source rock maturity , though open to theoretical objections , gives results which in many cases accord well with observed hydrocarbon occurrences , and has provided the petroleum geologist with a ready rule-of-thumb means of taking the time factor into account . |
| 20 | And the whole business of managing the time , the resources and the , meeting the specifications is , is very much a matter which quality management addresses . |
| 21 | In terms of managing the time , did you feel it worked quite well ? |
| 22 | Often this is a matter of stopping the time out as soon as all the crying , whining , foot stamping has ceased and the child is quiet again : ‘ You can come back when you are quiet ’ is the rule of the day . |
| 23 | Now er one of the very , or the very serious suggestion that came out of that meeting , and it I think it met unanimous support that night , was consideration of altering the time of the morning service . |
| 24 | Just a matter of finding the time ! |
| 25 | Another method of discovering the time scales associated with turbulent motion is , obviously , Fourier analysis . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |
| 30 | Moreover , system technology is capable of reducing the time needed to respond to changes in demand or to serve orders . |