Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On grounds of theory alone we can not tell which effect will be the stronger , i.e. whether higher taxes on income will raise or lower the time devoted to work rather than leisure ( where , of course , the worker has some choice ) . |
| 2 | If I worked hard and cracked the Agenda system , I would end up either having to spend a lot of money to continue , or seeing the time and work wasted . |
| 3 | either the fish is completely exhausted or given no time to gather its power , for I direct it straight to my landing net and it slips inside quite easily . |
| 4 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 5 | This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich . |
| 6 | Perhaps to the beach here , or passing the time . |
| 7 | All these possibilities are reduced if the program is prepared off the shop-floor by those with no direct interest in shortening or lengthening the time taken to do the job for personal reasons . |
| 8 | However , recent evidence suggests that HBIG may reduce the frequency , or extend the time to onset , of recurrent HBV . |
| 9 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 10 | Other problems , such as academic ability or entry requirements , became secondary if the adult can not afford to do the course or find the time to study in the first place . |
| 11 | For instance , clauses restricting liability for late delivery , allowing for variation of the delivery date or tolerances in relation to the quantity to be delivered , clauses enabling the proferens to substitute alternative goods for those ordered , to withhold performance of its obligations or vary the terms of the contract , and force majeure clauses excusing non-performance , or extending the time for performance in the event of circumstances outside the proferens ' control , and possibly even clauses giving one party the right to withhold performance , or terminate the contract , in the event of breach by the other party , are all potentially subject to s3 . |
| 12 | While this is a considerable improvement on the former method , it does nothing to reduce the paper-work involved or to shorten the time before a buyer is entered on the company 's register and receives his share certificate — which will take weeks and sometimes months . |
| 13 | Similarly , the company says that its plans for international expansion are pressing ahead , although it would not name any potential partners or put a time scale to its plans . |
| 14 | Weigh up the pros and cons ; decide if it is better to accept such invitations or to spend the time doing your own thing , perhaps sharing a mutual interest with one friend . |
| 15 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 16 | It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements . |
| 17 | The advantage of the service , Mr Lickiss points out , is that the subscribers can choose when they want or have the time to study . |
| 18 | Their hearts were going bang bang bang bang and the younger of the two had an excruciating bursting pain in the middle of the chest that stabbed every time a sobbing gasp came . |
| 19 | It 's it 's th the building and the blocks of things in in in the in the courtyard that make the time . |
| 20 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
| 21 | Heading for our connection , a brief glimpse of the sleek city more than justified the time we intend to spend there next week . |
| 22 | She felt again that slight frisson of foreboding that came every time she thought of Gesner . |
| 23 | It had never happened to her — in fact , quite the contrary , she revelled in the build-up to her own entrance , loving the rush of adrenalin that came every time she heard her own music . |
| 24 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 26 | At a table near the window sat a delegation of Africans , and another table nearer to the dance floor had South-East Asian faces that nodded every time their Russian host spoke . |
| 27 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 28 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 29 | Hence the frenzied self-hatred that explodes every time he spits out ‘ I 'm a creep ’ . |
| 30 | It is n't intended to go anywhere , just fill the time of day … on and on and on with no point or purpose other than to fill the time , like the rocking of a chair . ’ |