Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 2 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 3 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 4 | Enoch Powell sat hunched and brooding , breaking his silence only to pass the time of day with John Biffen . |
| 5 | The previous Bill had passed through Committee and was well advanced ‘ when international affairs so occupied the time of this House that it was impossible to carry the Measure to the Statute Book ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned . |
| 8 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 9 | This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations . |
| 10 | Once in to the BIOS setup you will find it very easy to follow the instructions to change the system clock and so put the time right once and for all — but be careful not to change anything else ! |
| 11 | Similarly , with the various aspects of stock work , careful and skilful handling not only reduced the time and effort of the person involved but also the stress to the stock . |
| 12 | Building an ambulance station would only improve the time the ambulance took to reach the emergency . |
| 13 | The old hands were less excited and settled down to daydream the time away until supper . |
| 14 | This type of help via an intelligent terminal or microcomputer is particularly valuable for the relatively unskilled end-users , in that it not only reduces the time taken to enter and transmit a search , but also allows correction of any typing or strategy errors before going online , thus removing some of the stress commonly associated with online searching . |
| 15 | On waiting lists , he points out that these only measure the time spent waiting patients have seen a hospital consultant and not the period leading up to that appointment . |
| 16 | A knowledge of how to set up and operate a machine could reduce the likelihood of a breakdown so minimising the time spent on repairs . |
| 17 | Now what you 're going to receive this afternoon , is what is pretentiously called a time management system . |
| 18 | the authority will perhaps have the time to consider overall policy objectives and the context in which all the schools and colleges operate . |
| 19 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 20 | She 'd been amazed to see Nelson working for her — and even more amazed to see how good he was at it , laughing and chatting with the customers , apparently having the time of his life . |
| 21 | The > symbol is used to send the output of TIME into a file called RESULTS.TXT so recording the time that this line of the batch file is obeyed . |
| 22 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 23 | Not all advisers feel comfortable asking clients for these personal details nor do they necessarily have the time to do it . |
| 24 | That perhaps it 's easier to do in a smaller department , I mean I 've got checkouts , and the majority of my staff are part-time , and I 've only got three full-timers , so it 's quite often the case that at nine thirty , one thirty , five thirty , eight thirty , it 's a case of coming in and then relieving somebody else straight away , you do n't necessarily have the time to spend with them . |
| 25 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
| 26 | You were so young , at an age to want to experiment and to find a DJ a glamorous figure , that I imagined it was superficial enough to have a time limit on it . |
| 27 | Has n't he got enough to worry about without being clobbered over the head by the injured pride of a woman fortunate enough to have the time and the brain to worry about the title on her season ticket ? |
| 28 | Gilmour hit back : ‘ Pat Clinton does n't stop working long enough to have the time to use his head . |
| 29 | I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck . |
| 30 | It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits . |