Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As enforcement of water pollution regulations places demands on polluters of time , manpower , and money , one of the basic premises informing routine pollution control work is the assumption that every discharger has a substantial economic incentive to evade enforcement : ‘ Everyone will try to get out of it , or say it was n't them . ’ |
| 2 | In them , the police were not shot at by gunmen as in the home districts of the Provisional IRA , On the contrary , they were not only welcome , but received deputations from residents from time to time imploring them ‘ to take the gangsters off our backs ’ . |
| 3 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 4 | A subset of the data is now being incorporated into a multinational comparative data set being compiled by Professor Gershuny at the University of Bath , which for the first time enables comparisons of trends in time use , for similar social groups , across time and across countries . |
| 5 | ‘ Dog ’ remains dog through centuries of time and cultural change . |