Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred at a moment in time when reading represented the chief leisure activity , apart from sex and drinking , for the British population . |
| 2 | Most are aggregate studies , looking at the correlation over time or across space between levels of crime and unemployment . |
| 3 | The author of a recent book on the history of clocks and their influence on the modern world has remarked that anyone looking at the techniques of time measurement throughout the world in , say , the eleventh century ‘ would have given odds that the Chinese would develop a mechanical clock well before the Europeans ’ . |
| 4 | In order to predict how the universe should have started off , one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time . |
| 5 | A going concern qualification on a company 's financial statements is , in effect , an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company . |
| 6 | A going concern qualification on a company is an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company |
| 7 | That is , the support of the finite verb is seen at a point in time from which the realization of the infinitive event by the person of the infinitive is viewed as a subsequent potential . |
| 8 | He was narrowly pipped at the post on time in the prestigious Derby event and also took runner-up in another speed event . |
| 9 | The basic distinction is that income is a flow and therefore is measured per unit of time , whereas wealth is a stock and is measured at a point in time . |
| 10 | They arrived at the airport with time to spare , and Fabia gently suggested that Cara might want to telephone their parents about Barney . |
| 11 | In the book , Benjamin arrived at the church in time to stop the wedding and there was no further ‘ moral transgression ’ . |
| 12 | We arrived at the station in time but where was Tumbleweed ? |
| 13 | I arrived at the House in time to be greeted by the sight of Alan Clark , the maverick right wing MP for Plymouth Sutton , rushing out of Westminster Hall shouting at the top of his voice , ‘ She 's won , she 's won . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Kundra added : ‘ He stays at the flat from time to time — perhaps two or three times a year . ’ |
| 15 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 16 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 17 | They can be gained at the expense of time spent on clients with other problems ( as will be seen in Chapter 4 ) or they can be derived from additional funding earmarked for the purpose . |
| 18 | God created the world , humans fell , in time He sent His Son Jesus Christ , who lived , died and rose again , and who will come at the end of time . |
| 19 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 20 | The cost is incurred at the point in time when the plant is built . |
| 21 | Criticism is often directed at the amount of time consumed by meetings . |
| 22 | Now , however , we can propose that the infinitive event with its internal spatial support ( intra-verbal person ) must be conceived as situated at a point in time beyond that at which its explicit actual support is located . |
| 23 | As we shall see , it is possible in the quantum theory for the ordinary laws of science to hold everywhere , including at the beginning of time : it is not necessary to postulate new laws for singularities , because there need not be any singularities in the quantum theory . |
| 24 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
| 25 | Unlike the past participle and the -ing form , however , the infinitive does not evoke its event as partially or completely realized at the point in time where it is referred to its support , and so the incidence of the event to the support can itself be seen as a mere possibility . |