Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 2 | It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates . |
| 3 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 4 | I was more the romantic type , being satisfied with a snack , holding the lady on a pedestal for a length of time , and coming back for another wee nibble . |
| 5 | I 've got the price of that product up and also get him his reduction after a period of time . |
| 6 | ( ii ) Determine the position and velocity of the ring as a function of time . |
| 7 | This could , depending on the gravity of the matter , suspend the individual from practice for a period of time or even permanently . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 9 | 1980 No. 1894 ) , has raised the question whether the long-established practice of both the Court of Appeal and this House in relation to the costs of appellate proceedings to make , in an appropriate case , a suspended order under section 18 ( or its predecessors ) to take effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Legal Aid Board ( or formerly the Law Society ) is one which runs counter to the strict requirements of those Regulations . |
| 10 | Example 4:10 Tenant 's power to make time of the essence ( 1 ) if the landlord fails to take any step in the procedure for rent review within a period of time prescribed by this lease ( whether or not that step could also have been taken by the tenant ) the tenant may give the landlord written notice : ( a ) referring to the step which the landlord has failed to take ( b ) requiring the landlord to take that step within such period of not less than 21 days as may be specified in the notice and ( c ) informing the landlord that if he fails to take that step within the period specified in the notice he will be precluded thereafter from taking it and that time is of the essence of the period so specified ( 2 ) if the landlord fails to take the step specified in a notice under paragraph ( 1 ) within the time specified in that notice ( time being of the essence ) he shall thereafter be precluded from taking it |
| 11 | Later he would spit venom at Band Aid in an interview with Time Out 's Simon Garfield . |
| 12 | The ICE Conditions of Contract entitle the contractor to an extension of time if any of a number of specified events delays the works . |
| 13 | However , events which entitle the contractor to an extension of time may also entitle the contractor to recover extra costs . |
| 14 | The aim of the research is to arrive at an interdisciplinary understanding of particular cases by intensive study over a period of time , using both flexible interviews and questionnaires ; and by the incorporation of survey data and through theoretical interpretation to generalise to wider organisational and occupational areas . |
| 15 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 16 | Good examples of activities to maintain motivation are collecting inspiring dieting case histories from slimming magazines ; going out to buy a dress one size smaller than your present size ; looking at charts and graphs that show good overall weight loss over a period of time . |
| 17 | There is no obligation to buy any books over a period of time . |
| 18 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 19 | This gives judicial support to the view that financial statements have a limited useful life ( of less than 15 months ) and depreciate in usefulness over a period of time . |
| 20 | The third method of issue involves the Bank of England taking stock on to its own books and then selling this as a tap stock over a period of time in day-to-day dealings with GEMMs . |
| 21 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 22 | Profit is normally seen as a flow over time whereas wealth can be described as a stock at a point in time . |
| 23 | Yes , this is me with the Geiger counter looking for radioactive traces on the moor , nothing much actually , so in the end it was a bit of a waste of time ’ ) . |
| 24 | Even Owen , adventurer as he was , thought the codes a bit of a waste of time . |
| 25 | I feel they 're a little bit of a waste of time … the course I 'm doing , I 'm gaining knowledge which I can use ; which , I mean , you ca n't really use a history degree unless you 're going to be an archaeologist or an historian or a teacher . |
| 26 | I mean I know there 's been a lot of debate and I know that er you may feel it 's been a bit of a waste of time |
| 27 | Erm , of course it has to be remembered that all these lectures , or at least most of them , were erm voluntary compulsion and the men used to turn up because they were told to and er whether or not they showed little or no interest very often and it was all erm well a bit of a waste of time . |
| 28 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 29 | Erm , at which point influencing has somewhat become a bit of a waste of time . |
| 30 | a bit of a waste of time ! |