Example sentences of "and [vb base] the time " in BNC.

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1 These enable the original owner of the deposit to sell its ownership to a third party if the need arises and make the time deposit instantly realisable , albeit at a price .
2 Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’
3 Of course the idea came to nothing ; in fact , one gets the impression , throughout this period , that there were a great many ideas floating about whose sole value was to console , and occupy the time of , those who had them .
4 You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout .
5 That would take a good hour and kill the time .
6 I signed Tommy Titmouse in a scrawl and put the time .
7 A statement by the governor of the emirate 's Central Bank in February noted that 650 wells were still on fire and put the time needed to resume output at 9 months .
8 Then our hostess appeared on a terrace higher still , put a large telescope to her eye , and read the time by the clock on the town tower .
9 I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel .
10 In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters .
11 Subjects were asked to collect every stool for five days and record the time each was passed .
12 For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion .
13 Stroll by and pass the time of day , when you were ranting and raving and threatening ’
14 If you 're if you had n't earned the money well you did n't go into it in detail and get the time and motion study man
15 I sometimes join them , if their smell is n't too gamey , and exchange the time of day during my lunch hour , just to make sure that I still have the use of my voice if I 've been feeding the archive into the computer all day .
16 A distinctive and particularly valuable aspect of the study by Nissel and Bonnerjea was the keeping of diaries by their respondents so that they could describe the nature of , and measure the time taken in , the caring activities undertaken .
17 The principal technique was to transmit radar pulses vertically downwards and measure the time lapsed before the echo was received .
18 The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence .
19 The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months .
20 Have a look at some other exhibitions , get ideas , do some costings , and estimate the time span you need to be ready .
21 Make the test pages an accurate reflection of the sort of work that you will be sending and take the time to explain what they contain , where the files come from and always include a laser printed proof .
22 Their television colleagues were more patrician , only occasionally deigning to nod down at the page and scribble the time of an important section of Blanche 's statement .
23 Those responsible for planning the move must be experienced enough and have the time to spend on dealing with all the issues that arise .
24 If you like cooking and have the time to experiment , there is a recipe section on pages 133–150 , which you might like to try , and in the reading list you will find a selection of recipe books that you might like to dip into .
25 There were several times when Joseph could stand outside the front of his inn , or on the for'ard deck of his ship , and have the time to contemplate his next manoeuvre , calm amid the storm as all the great commanders always were .
26 It requires employers to meet the costs and plan the time for courses .
27 Erm , he organised the coordinating , after a while she did actually stop them after five minutes and explain the time situation , er , the final objective were the constraints .
28 To improve the assimilation of new staff into CA and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential
29 To improve the assimilation of new overseas staff into CA and Britain , and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential
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