Example sentences of "[v-ing] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To assist the management in organising staff , shifts , holidays and rotas utilising time and equipment a useful statistic is calculating the average length of stay of the guest . |
| 2 | The conductor 's earliest origins , though , were humble , his duties confined to banging time loudly with a stick — a sort of dull musical beadle . |
| 3 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 4 | Pass by any inner-city CAB five minutes before opening time and there will be a sufficient crowd of people waiting to occupy the advice workers for a half-day session . |
| 5 | Tommy Sparks was a man having a remarkable thirst and woe betide anyone unfortunate enough to be having a haircut around opening time . |
| 6 | Beer mats will give way to hymnals , and glasses to enlightenment as Britain 's first ‘ pub church ’ holds its Easter Day service , two hours before opening time at the Old Farmhouse public house in Nailsea , near Bristol . |
| 7 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 8 | It 's four o'clock — opening time . ’ |
| 9 | I reached the Buck Inn just at opening time and stood by the fire steaming so much that two Swedish students got lost in the fog going to the gents . |
| 10 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 11 | It was just on opening time , and I stood myself a drink in a City pub that did n't really want me — a woman was still vacuuming the bar . |
| 12 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 13 | There were fifteen minutes to opening time , which meant I might just be able to head Duncan the Drunken off at the pass . |
| 14 | Opening time for anglers |
| 15 | There is also the interesting combination of a lithographed People on a Pavement ( 1967 ) by L.S. Lowry and the gouache and crayon drawing of a group of five hunched miners Waiting for Opening Time by Tom McGuinness . |
| 16 | We join all the other dancers jumping up and down , round and round the dance floor , stopping momentarily as I place my rifle in a corner near the band , then on again keeping time to the music . |
| 17 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 18 | She did so by lifting one of Chase 's Doc Martin 's ( the other was keeping time ) and pushing the joint under it . |
| 19 | This , in turn , was the subject of a celebrated book by the German writer , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , who argued that sculpture was not a fit medium for representing time and movement . |
| 20 | They lamb easily , producing wonderfully tasty meat lambs when crossed with a Ryeland sire , and give the softest of fleeces at shearing time in a variety of attractive shades , ideal for hand spinning and knitting . |
| 21 | In particular , he objected to correlating time with the motions of the heavenly bodies , since time would still exist if the heavens should cease to move but a potter 's wheel continued to rotate . |
| 22 | Whichever method is adopted the wages clerk will be involved in checking time sheets and/or bonus calculations in order to calculate the wages due to operatives . |
| 23 | Understanding time |
| 24 | The best starting point for understanding time and its measurement will be the children 's own experience and the landmarks in their own very short life such as birthdays , going to school , the birth of brothers and sisters , etc . |
| 25 | Understanding time : the transition to Key Stage 2 |
| 26 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |
| 27 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |
| 28 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 29 | The gulls that screeched warning to their fellows as she approached too near their territory frightened her , but since this was not nesting time , none spat . |
| 30 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |