Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My plan to ignore the time totally ( it would only depress me ! ) went badly wrong . |
| 8 | Help your child to tell the time with this nursery clock which has a solid pine surround and clown design . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers . |
| 15 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At one point , Karpov had to make 10 moves in one minute to reach the time control at move 40 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The area office has a discretion to extend the time limit but can not be relied upon to exercise this other than in the most extenuating circumstances . |
| 22 | However , subject to the power of the court to extend the time under s 376 , no application to reverse or vary the decision of the trustee rejecting a proof will be entertained unless notice of the application is given before the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of service of the notice of rejection ( r 6.105 ) . |
| 23 | Cassie lifted her arms to reach his neck , and from the position in which she lay , she had no need to move her head to read the time on the face of her watch . |
| 24 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 25 | This wording allows the court to balance the time and expense involved in taking the precaution against the risk of injury . |
| 26 | If the hardware open-loop controller provides linear ramped acceleration , /deceleration , find the optimum stepping rate limit and Corresponding ramp gradient to minimise the time taken to move 50 steps . |
| 27 | Or simply a game to pass the time and add spice to the voyage ? |
| 28 | Mr Sen also contacted the Central Office of the Industrial Tribunal to check the time limit and was informed by a member of their staff that he should submit his claim by 9th October . |
| 29 | Have n't I arranged with my father to have the time off ? |
| 30 | The new government decided to use the existing legal framework to save the time and possible difficulties that new laws might bring about , hut with certain modifications . |