Example sentences of "give the [noun] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be able to calculate the interval between two given times , and the finishing time given the starting time and duration . |
| 2 | This is what I call the strategy of non-decision , the decision that we will do nothing , that we wo n't harass the child , that we will give the child time to relax and move at his own pace , rather than determining the pace that we feel the child ought to be following . |
| 3 | I just wish its critics would give the scheme time to work . |
| 4 | Senator David L. Boren , the committee 's chairman , said that the delay would give the panel time to examine the " flurry of allegations " concerning Gates , especially those relating to the Iran-contra affair . |
| 5 | There were fears , however , that this would merely give the JNA time to regroup around the towns of Vukovar and Vinkovci ( eastern Croatia ) . |
| 6 | Give the customer time to explain her needs and listen carefully . |
| 7 | The five-day grace period should allow rectification of any administrative delays and give the customer time to make any necessary borrowing arrangements or realise assets to fund margin calls . |
| 8 | This helps to pace the dialogue , model turn-taking , and give the child time to organize the next utterance . |
| 9 | Are there natural pauses in the flow of language which give the viewer time to let it sink in and take shape in the mind ? |
| 10 | Give the children time , a chance to respond . |
| 11 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 12 | Opposition critics claimed , however , that the real reason for the delay was to give the government time to build up its grassroots organization . |
| 13 | Make repairs using glue in a period when no one will be using the stairs , to give the glue time to set without the joint flexing . |
| 14 | Your supply will not be cut off for at least fourteen days ( 21 in the case of gas ) to give the council time to help . |
| 15 | Commentators considered that the delay was designed to give the LTTE time to negotiate with the Moslem and Sinhalese communities in the Eastern Province in order to prevent them from joining to vote for the reinstatement of a separate Eastern Provincial Council . |
| 16 | Thus if the chargee is entitled to payment on demand he is not required to give the company a reasonable time in which to raise the funds to make payment and is only required to give the company time in which to put into effect the mechanics of payment . |
| 17 | In some open-loop control schemes the precise times of phase excitation changes are required and the velocity profile must then be integrated to give the position/ time response of the system . |
| 18 | Armando Guebuza , the leader of the government delegation , as being designed to give the MNR time to consider proposals made by the talks ' mediators . |
| 19 | It is generally mutually convenient if we take our holidays together as a block ( it also enables us to give the nanny time off ) . |
| 20 | Yes , because er , the books are closed at the end of this month which is , you know , you 've got to give the auditors time to get the hall done before the A G M. |
| 21 | A drill which has been expanded in order to give the student time to respond to a stimulus , and which is the kind of drill used in a taped programme in a language laboratory . |
| 22 | " But is it really likely , sir , that the call was intended to delay the finding of the body and to give the killer time to replace the keys ? admittedly Mrs. Bidwell could be expected to be first in the Biology Department this morning when she put out the clean coats . |
| 23 | These ideas failed to allow for Austrian objections to Russian gains in the Balkans and grossly exaggerated the inclination of the Balkan Slavs to fight for their freedom , but they had the virtue of giving the tsar time to negotiate . |
| 24 | Giving the President time to gather himself , Trent straightened the sheets and bedspread . |
| 25 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 26 | She deals with the many administrative jobs , thus giving the band time to work on their music , especially when they are not touring . |
| 27 | Fortune owed Fred Winter a big favour and provided it , for the next part of this tortuous course was quite straight , with four fences to be jumped , and this at least gave the jockey time to work out how to respond to the calamity . |
| 28 | They were alone , face to face across a table over a carafe of water , which gave the camera time — the programme lasted an hour and ten minutes , less advertising breaks — to examine them minutely . |
| 29 | Integrating eqn ( 8.16 ) gives the travel time from Earth to N as . |
| 30 | Now he has six months to set things right , which at least gives the ducks time to hatch their eggs and raise their families . |