Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 2 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 3 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 4 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 5 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 6 | You can also have the prompt show the current time and date , by using PROMPT $D$T$G |
| 7 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 8 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 9 | Yes , I hope so too , but , I have the feeling that the next , the next time we looked I do n't remember it having green peddles the first time you found it |
| 10 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |
| 11 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 12 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 13 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 14 | If your dive exceeds the no-decompression time , it flashes the notation asc time ( ascent time ) and the minimum amount of time , in minutes , needed to make the ascent . |
| 15 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 16 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 17 | The 55 week interval represents the longest time that any patient remained in the trial . |
| 18 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 19 | The author remembers the first time he was left with his first , brand-new child . |
| 20 | Underline the need to maximise the short time available to them to their best advantage . |
| 21 | Half the crowd expect a punk band and half are curious old gits who remember organ bands the first time around . |
| 22 | His magnificent second innings 133 , plus a top score the first time around , has served to magnify the glaring deficiencies in the batting line-up . |
| 23 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 24 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 25 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
| 26 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 27 | However , the existence of market imperfections results in the social opportunity rate exceeding the social time preference rate . |
| 28 | The news gave the one time glamour shares a temporary sparkle , rising 25p to 925p before slipping back to 845p . |
| 29 | It is a matter of experience to judge the best time to remove a peel , but flicking the edge upwards immediately releases the peel slightly when ready , producing a diagnostic ‘ dry ’ sound . |
| 30 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |