Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on . |
| 2 | We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example . |
| 3 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 4 | I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck . |
| 5 | Once in to the BIOS setup you will find it very easy to follow the instructions to change the system clock and so put the time right once and for all — but be careful not to change anything else ! |
| 6 | All that and down to sign the time book by 7.20 . |
| 7 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 8 | Branson himself was torn between a belief that the magazine needed more of his time , and not having the time to give it . |
| 9 | None of the frustration of seeing a great-looking slope from the chairlift and not having the time to ski it because of a lunch date in the next valley ? |
| 10 | Some things need to be attended to very quickly because of the changed circumstances ; others , because they provide a refuge from ‘ thinking about things ’ , keep people occupied and thus leave no time for speculation or for unhappy thoughts to flood in . |
| 11 | Section 290(2) of the Public Health Act 1936 states that any notice requiring remedial works to be carried out must indicate their nature and also specify the time limit in which they must be done . |
| 12 | The foremost advocate of social reform in the Cabinet , Joseph Chamberlain , was Colonial Secretary and responsible for the conduct of the war and hence had no time to pursue social issues . |
| 13 | You will sometimes be asked to er look at something like that and then put the time signature in . |
| 14 | This involves turning at 90° to the headrest position line and then noting the time taken to get a 5° or 10° change of bearing . |
| 15 | What you need to do is to decide how much time study requires and then find the time in the day to do it . |
| 16 | But please waste no time . |
| 17 | But then comes the time of differentiation , the time when the busy teacher takes her clothes down to the laundry on a Saturday morning and flings them in the laundry basket in the confidence that they will be returned neatly pressed later in the week . |
| 18 | ‘ But why have the Time Lords kept this Great War a secret ? ’ the Doctor asked . |
| 19 | But never mind no time to worry about things like that . |