I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus timetable
▪ The bus timetable changes on January 31st.
draw up a timetable/schedule
▪ They haven’t yet drawn up a timetable for the elections.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ They will have to work to the new timetables.
▪ Mr Ajello's officials, who take up five floors of Maputo's Rovuma Hotel, are working on a new timetable.
▪ A completely new Midland timetable was introduced in two stages in October 1982 and May 1983.
▪ Given the new timetable, it still say samples should be more available than they are.
▪ The new timetables will relate to the overall periods up to setting down for trial.
strict
▪ Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable.
▪ From Monday to Thursday debates are held according to a ritual that is governed by the translators' strict and legitimate timetables.
▪ I am trying to keep to a very strict timetable.
▪ We don't have strict timetables for meals.
▪ In order to allow all parties reasonable access to this documentation we will ask you to adhere to a strict timetable.
▪ The main force came ashore the next night and followed a strict timetable.
▪ A strict timetable was to be adhered to whereby reorganization was to be completed by the end of 1974.
tight
▪ All parties in Crown Court matters should be subject to tight timetables and wasted costs orders, including judges and listing officers.
▪ Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable.
▪ It is important to remember that there is a tight timetable for the introduction of the new tax.
■ NOUN
bus
▪ Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma.
▪ Much of the information they sent back came from the newspapers and, in one case, the Miami bus timetable.
▪ We have no need to theorise about bus timetables in order to catch a bus into town.
▪ Please note that these itineraries are suggestions only, and are subject to bus timetables and accommodation availability.
election
▪ These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable.
▪ The decision to foreshorten the leadership election timetable proved to be a serious error.
motion
▪ I spoke about the much wider use of timetable motions.
▪ Even so, there is a great deal to be said against timetable motions.
▪ I did not support the timetable motion and believe that my decision was right.
▪ Let me now spell out why the timetable motion is necessary.
▪ Our amendments do not get proper consideration on Report or in Committee if there is a timetable motion.
▪ I understand that a timetable motion is to be introduced on Second Reading - a procedure which I have not experienced.
▪ I thought he looked weary as he presented the timetable motion.
▪ I am delighted to see that the Government are willing to introduce a timetable motion at the start of Second Reading.
railway
▪ Reliably tied-in with the railway timetable are the yellow post-buses which take mail and people to every village.
▪ A railway timetable provides a good and simple example of a prudential practice.
▪ So tennis fans can, for the moment, pout away their railway timetables.
▪ Then he looked in a railway timetable for a town that he did not know.
▪ The delays caused by such action can have considerable impact on services because the integrated railway timetable is very susceptible to disruption.
▪ We know that a war can start over a telegram, a railway timetable or the ear of some one called Jenkins.
school
▪ Storytime is a regular feature in the school timetable, and stories about the past can slot naturally into this framework.
train
▪ Use a bus or train timetable.
▪ The fate map should be regarded rather like a train timetable - it tells you only what will normally happen.
■ VERB
agree
▪ These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable.
▪ It simply agreed a timetable for producing a single currency by, at the latest, 1999 - with or without Britain.
draw
▪ It was understood that the conference would also draw up a timetable for elections.
▪ Such a conference would, among other things, debate the proposed legislation, and draw up a timetable for elections.
give
▪ The leaflets give details of timetables for the Middlesbrough to Saltburn line as well as specials to key towns in the North-East.
▪ The company declined to give a timetable for the sale.
▪ Further Orders will be required to give the timetable legal effect.
▪ On returning, he very politely gives me a timetable.
▪ Endill was given a timetable of his lessons.
▪ This is the boast of the excellent leaflet which is produced to give prospective visitors timetable information and details of other facilities.
▪ He was given a flexible timetable which, in terms of classes, could be built up as seemed appropriate.
keep
▪ I am sure that many cases will be able to keep to that timetable, but I see difficulties in many others.
▪ Be realistic from the outset, so that you don't become dismayed by your inability to keep to your own timetable.
▪ Try to keep to a regular timetable of waking and sleeping.
▪ The Community has kept apace with the timetable set for adoption of the legislation by the end of 1992.
set
▪ This paper sets out the overall timetable for the information of all staff.
▪ It has since set back the timetable for the expressway, proposed for just south of Miramar Road.
▪ We have set out the timetable.
▪ Tabular setting text set in columns such as timetables.
▪ There is clearly no sense in setting an impossibly short timetable in order to impress the client.
▪ The Government are not prepared to set out any timetable for reaching that limit.
▪ The court should take account of the fact that it could minimize the delay by setting a timetable for the action.
▪ About eighteen inches is the optimum distance between eye and page. Set yourself a personal timetable for study.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heavy schedule/timetable/day etc
▪ But Joe was concerned about the heavy schedule he had to keep in order to maintain that income.
▪ I understand the importance of the statement, but we have a heavy day ahead of us.
▪ Quite apart from the vines, I have a heavy day ahead of me - a lot of serious talking to do.
▪ The distant baying of a hound tugged at the heavy day.
▪ We have a very heavy day ahead of us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you got the new bus timetable for this year?
▪ He gave no indication of a timetable for the approval of the changes.
▪ Party leaders met to discuss a new constitution and an electoral timetable.
▪ Teachers will be giving out copies of the new timetable in the first class today.
▪ The timetable said there was another train at 6.15.
▪ Their purpose would be to set a timetable for the conversion of British cars to low-octane fuel.
▪ Train services shown in this timetable are subject to alteration or cancellation at short notice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Amoco said that the effect on the commissioning timetable of the loss of the flotel had still to be assessed.
▪ At the beginning of each year a timetable is prepared and each year group follows a clearly defined, predetermined curriculum.
▪ From Monday to Thursday debates are held according to a ritual that is governed by the translators' strict and legitimate timetables.
▪ I had responsibilities: timetables, deadlines.
▪ It was understood that the conference would also draw up a timetable for elections.
▪ Public hearing participation was clearly limited by the timetable and invitation list adopted by city staff.
II.verbEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By 1800 wagon services were numerous enough in most parts of the country to be timetabled.
▪ For example, disabled students can be timetabled into ground floor rooms.
▪ His afternoons were much less predictable, and that was also when the bulk of Karen's contact hours were timetabled.
▪ The Centre should be timetabled for operational use by students and formally supervised by a designated member of staff.
▪ The real initiative for timetabling Bills must come from Opposition parties.