Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes of the contents of meetings and conferences should also indicate the time spent and include any unusual feature which could affect mark-up . |
| 2 | The government should now set a time limit for this saga to be brought to a conclusion . |
| 3 | Add in some fancy graduated tint backgrounds or some a scanned logo and you 'll really see the time tick by . |
| 4 | I do n't mind because if you 've got the questions we 'll we 'll certainly spend the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll never forget the time you … ’ can be an aggrieved refrain in real marriages as well as in music-hall jokes . |
| 6 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 7 | Most obviously it means that the ‘ birds ’ sang at a previous moment in time but it could also mean the time of year , the time of the poet 's life , and most strikingly , it could be another word connected with death . |
| 8 | The coding system allows two main types of information to be coded , fixed features — those that will be the same every time a junction is seen , and variable features — those which could potentially change every time a junction is passed through . |
| 9 | Whole-class teaching , usually seen as the device most likely to keep children on task , may well reduce distraction ( or at least distraction of an undisguised kind ) but it may also increase the time children spend awaiting attention , and indeed our own figures on group sizes tend to confirm this . |
| 10 | There may well come a time when it is a good idea to float Direct Line . ’ |
| 11 | Building an ambulance station would only improve the time the ambulance took to reach the emergency . |
| 12 | After the user requirement had been produced , and the options for system development had been considered , it was agreed that it would be most cost-effective if suitable applications software could be identified , which would also reduce the time required for installation . |
| 13 | This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's . |
| 14 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 15 | The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned . |
| 16 | the authority will perhaps have the time to consider overall policy objectives and the context in which all the schools and colleges operate . |
| 17 | Thus a pattern mask will greatly reduce the time available for a letter detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems , but will not affect the time available to a word detector . |
| 18 | The court will usually fix a time limit for service when making directions and this must be complied with . |
| 19 | He will also lose no time in appointing an Aids expert to head a heavily-funded White House task-force . |
| 20 | Once an offline run has completed , the offline system will automatically update the time of the next offline run by adding the interval to the current start time . |
| 21 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 22 | But Mr Arthur Chance will never forget the time one of his prodigies did just that . |
| 23 | One can only imagine the time , the patience , the dedication , the sheer labour . |
| 24 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 25 | No man is an island ; no smallholder can possibly find the time or produce all the skills needed for complete self-sufficiency . |
| 26 | In 1703 Bishop Nicholson records a Churchwarden 's remark characteristic of the sturdy independence of Dalesmen , ‘ Except the Vicar and the Schoolmaster , we have not a Gentleman among us , nor can any remember the time we had a Beggar . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 28 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 29 | What is the mid-point of the argument that some teachers do not want to reflect , others can never find the time for reflection and others feel it unnecessary ? |
| 30 | He can never remember a time when he did n't have a detective to guard him , or private cars , planes or trains to transport him . |