Example sentences of "[v-ing] with time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A third possibility , at first unusual but slowly growing with time , was retirement in the modern sense , on a pension . |
| 3 | Further attempts to relate the incidence of Crohn 's disease to known genetic variation between populations are unlikely to be productive since differences of incidence between ethnic groups are narrowing with time and migration . |
| 4 | Yet we can observe how the expansion of the universe is varying with time and thus determine that the-cosmological constant is very small . |
| 5 | The technique is therefore very powerful in the examination of systems that are chemically inhomogeneous , or even varying with time . |
| 6 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 7 | Writing offered us another way of dealing with time , anxiety and frustration . |
| 8 | As it was , no one thought the universe was changing with time until 1929 , when Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century , however , evidence began to accumulate that the earth and the rest of the universe were in fact changing with time . |
| 10 | He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time . |
| 11 | Neither flowing with time ( materialism ) , nor denying time ( romanticism ) . |
| 12 | The rate is increasing with time ( 1 in 900 in the UK in 1903 against 1 in 400 in 1973 ) ; but this may be an artefact of more accurate recording of the cause of death — before the arrival of modern terminal care , people usually died of pneumonia . |
| 13 | Despite these difficulties with the idea of a static and unchanging universe , no one in the seventeenth , eighteenth , nineteenth , or early twentieth century suggested that the universe might be evolving with time . |
| 14 | Men are more likely than women to be ‘ economically active ’ , that is , in effect , to be in or seeking paid employment outside the home ( see Figure 2.8 ) , but this difference is decreasing with time ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates says he is working with Time Warner Inc to bring experimental two-way television to some 5,000 Florida homes by early 1994 , the Orlando Sentinel reported , adding that the two companies are working toward making such two-way systems more user-friendly ; Gates said that he studied several other experimental two-way television systems but chose the Orlando project because it seemed to offer the best interactive possibilities of ordering movies , making financial transactions and ‘ creating a computer window into the world of information ’ . |