Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh look — that 's all right for time . ’ |
| 2 | A limited number of swords are very individualistic , but shield bosses conform to a relatively limited range of designs which appear to change slowly through time . |
| 3 | Each of these symbols translates happily enough through time to produce an informal heritage , and the sense of past experience working to shape the modern landscape , where barn conversions harbour computer hardware , is unignorable . |
| 4 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 5 | Slorne turned away and stared out through the top of her cage as if to say , ‘ There , where the skies are , where the great clouds drift and the winds blow endlessly through time , seek there and you will find what Minch needs . ’ |
| 6 | However , many discussions of nationalism assume that the topic remains the same regardless of time and place , so that explanations are equally applicable to all cases . |
| 7 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 8 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
| 9 | In all such studies , however ( including this trial ) , the number of patients at risk diminishes appreciably with time so that the confidence of the prediction that there really is a plateau , also diminishes with time . |
| 10 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 11 | Compound Rates of Change : A measure is used which contains more than two primary measures , possibly together with time ( e.g. the rate of dry weight increase with time ; the variation of this measure itself with time can then be plotted ) . |
| 12 | Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time . |
| 13 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 14 | You 'll know better in time , Miss . ’ |
| 15 | Scapegoating tends to be a reciprocal matter and , especially in time of resource scarcity , anger and blame for the failure of ‘ the system ’ needs to find a target . |
| 16 | But the orchestra is playing a medley from Fiddler on the Roof , the audience is clapping impatiently in time and , horror or horrors , I can see now there are no stairs — just a long slide circling down to the stage 60 feet away . |
| 17 | insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses . |
| 18 | Perhaps in time they 'll turn more of their songs into group showcases , as they did on Cash 's Big River , but as the Highwaymen rode into the sunset , they 'd succeeded in that most country of missions : they 'd kept their pride intact , and their boots on . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly in a small fish with an extensive but virtually one-dimensional ( East-West ) range , different populations have developed different colour patterns , and perhaps in time these will become different species altogether . |
| 20 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 21 | Perhaps an article on Sterlets , with pictures , might interest more people and with the increased interest perhaps in time the price will come down to a more realistic level . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps in time we can perform a similar service to you . ’ |
| 23 | In part this was a reflection of the great strain on small financial resources which building , maintaining and perhaps in time enlarging workhouses imposed , but it also reflected the greater difficulty in an effective and controlled administration of out-relief in the more anonymous and densely populated towns . |
| 24 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 25 | The sovereign power inherent in the British Crown , as exercised through Council and through Parliament , derives not from a treaty or document or compact , but from prescription , from the fact that it has been so from time immemorial — that it is immanent in the nation itself . |
| 26 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 27 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 28 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 29 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 30 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |