Example sentences of "[vb pp] by time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A degree is no shortcut to the acquisition of the essential practical skills ; experience is won by time and application : |
| 2 | Event organised by Time Off For Women , PO Box 9 , Ashton-Under-Lyne , Lancs OL6 8DH . |
| 3 | Constrained by time and numbers of referrals it is usual to teach relaxation techniques over one to three sessions , with occasional revision practice at later dates . |
| 4 | Never was a man so constrained by time . |
| 5 | What balance do I accord them ? ( principally decided by time allocation ) . |
| 6 | But it 's cost me over , well it will have done by time I 've finished putting radio in , about hundred and forty pound . |
| 7 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 8 | Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop . |
| 9 | How to think about these two exhibitions , separated by time and place ? |
| 10 | Thinned by time , the rings |
| 11 | In India , army officers in the Company 's service were advanced by time promotion , mitigated in some degree by considerations of evident merit , and commissions were not openly bought and sold as they were in the British army . |
| 12 | It is getting nearer as measured by time distance . |
| 13 | Birch was also a great believer in the corrosion-resistant qualities of cast-iron columns , and this confidence was fully vindicated by time . |
| 14 | Of course , any ethnographic study is bound by time and place . |
| 15 | If the parties do not wish to be bound by time limits there should be none in the lease . |
| 16 | Parmenides drew a fundamental distinction between the world of appearance , characterized by time and change , and the world of reality which is unchanging and timeless . |
| 17 | Human experts often have to travel to deploy their knowledge and are restricted by time and other business pressures . |
| 18 | The players at Bridgetown , and the umpires , took that to mean that 90 overs in a day would be reduced by time in proportion to wickets take ; i.e. eight wickets=16 minutes=four overs=a minimum of 86 overs for the day . |
| 19 | Thrusting spires , softened by time ; vaulted cloisters floored with cobbles trod thin by genius . |
| 20 | And Ginsberg wrote , ‘ Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time magazine ? ’ |
| 21 | The remaining monuments have been cracked open by undergrowth or assaulted by time and neglect . |
| 22 | As we age , our hair undergoes dramatic changes — some hormonal , some self-inflicted , others caused by time — which can make us look older than we are . |
| 23 | It 's hard enough denying yourself or ‘ being healthy ’ at lunchtime , but at least there are certain curbs automatically posed by time and custom . |
| 24 | It is quite an elaborate item : Youth and Age sit on an oval cartouche flanked by Time and Eternity . |
| 25 | Answer guide : Straight line — asset usage and wearing out is governed by time and is equal over the assets life . |
| 26 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 27 | So in a sense the reptile dominance is still with us , transmuted by time and evolution . |
| 28 | For , he argued , motion can be uniform or non-uniform and these terms are themselves defined by time , whereas time can not be defined by itself . |
| 29 | Compared with Maud she was too tall and thin , and her mouth was too wide , but she had a simple grace which remained in his memory long after her features were blurred by time . |
| 30 | But the stresses and strains of the moment , the all-important moral factors , tend to be submerged by time . |