Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 2 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 3 | On 16 March 1992 Wright applied for an extension of time in which to renew his application for leave to appeal against conviction and the application was listed to be heard on the same day as Christou 's appeal . |
| 4 | Accountants Touche Ross asked for an extension of time for the filing of a ‘ monitoring return ’ giving details of Barlow Clowes ' finances which was due by the end of that month . |
| 5 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 6 | Up to now all the wires have been stationary , and the magnetic field has varied as a function of time . |
| 7 | Why do we need to be reminded about the eradication of time all the time ? |
| 8 | Stronger than its danger , there arises out of the couplet a sense of the nobility of man , and a grand magnitude that lies throughout the passage of time and whose power , when harnessed , as now by the poet , renders all things glorious and reassuring . |
| 9 | This alternates with the amount of time until desaturation is achieved ( no flying time ) , signified by an image of an aeroplane . |
| 10 | ACCEPTANCE HAS COME WITH THE PASSING OF TIME AND HIS BOOKER-NOMINATED HIT NOVEL ‘ AMONGST WOMEN ’ . |
| 11 | For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord ! |
| 12 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 13 | There are those who think that the ordination of women is bound to come in the course of time and wonder why it is necessary to campaign for it . |
| 14 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 15 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 16 | But that 's where the manager 's a victim , trapped in a sort of time warp , waiting to find out if those Moores millions will ever be available again . |
| 17 | Here you have an opportunity to sell as much advertising you want in the period of time . |
| 18 | ‘ You have come in the nick of time , ’ Alexandra told him . |
| 19 | Actors and actresses revealing how ancient they were by their dress and arrangements of hair-style smiled down from the walls , their smiles captured forever — frozen in the curtain-call of time . |
| 20 | Enwrapped within the womb of time , once cramped |
| 21 | Major changes occurred in the course of time in the availability both of different substances and of the techniques for shaping and displaying them . |
| 22 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 23 | The Christian view of time directed to the future , as presented by St Augustine , differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring . |
| 24 | As mentioned previously , this so often happened with monotonous and maddening frequency during operations , but luckily radio contact was regained in the nick of time and the message was passed that Margate seemed the most likely landing spot . |
| 25 | In awarding an extension of time and then , if appropriate , calculating any overheads due to be reimbursed , allowance should be made for any overheads already recouped through additional work items instructed which contributed to the extension of time . |
| 26 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 27 | Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time . |
| 28 | Such a selection policy is clearly professionally and publicly unacceptable , from any political grouping , and if pursued over a period of time , will surely replace education with propaganda as one of the purposes of the public library service . |
| 29 | In Leaf v International Galleries , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) expressed the view that the right to rescind for misrepresentation can not survive beyond the point of time when a right to reject for breach of condition is lost . |
| 30 | Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination . |