Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 2 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 3 | As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn . |
| 4 | The object is to minimise the time the machine is cranked over , because in that situation neither brake nor throttle can be seriously applied . |
| 5 | If a closed.loop stepping motor control is to minimise the time Spent in moving a load to a target position a velocity profile of the form shown in Fig. 8.11(a) must be used . |
| 6 | A better method is to measure the time taken for the full code to be read in . |
| 7 | The effect they have on performance is to increase the time taken for transactions on the Working-Set database . |
| 8 | And your old uncle is having the time of his life , and wishes he could write better letters . |
| 9 | ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station . |
| 10 | Time zero was considered the time of completion of the test meal . |
| 11 | Our task and privilege is to take the time and make a serious effort to reflect on our lives and to realise anew , the saving and sanctifying power of God . |
| 12 | To explain a watch we need to realize both how its springs and wheels ( or , nowadays , microchips ) work and that its purpose is to tell the time . |
| 13 | Here the problem is finding the time to get things done . ’ |
| 14 | The problem is finding the time to do everything I 'd like to do . |