Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 2 | The thing with th , with getting there at two for the gate right , because you can go in and get seats , for that amount of time you want a seat . |
| 3 | It was unfortunate that during this period of time there were a number of pressures er on us , not just County Council for that money to be spent elsewhere and that money was er brought back to the centre and we distributed all of the the Services . |
| 4 | During this period of time he made the mistake of threatening the archdeacon , Cautinus , who fled to the court of king Theudebald , announced the death of Gallus , and was himself consecrated bishop on the king 's orders . |
| 5 | yes after different periods of time there not all |
| 6 | Calculate the cost of each overhead against the foreseeable programme of works ( for example , cost of the project manager for six months , one tower crane for two months , accommodation for eight months ) to produce a graph of overhead costs against time which is checked against the tender programme . |
| 7 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 8 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 9 | The rotor has to pass through these regions after times which are a multiple of the rotor oscillation period ( 1 hn ) and therefore : Resonant stepping rates A motor with a natural frequency , from Eqn . |
| 10 | From that moment in time they will have the opportunity to express their views to Councillors , to myself , to my staff . |
| 11 | In that space of time you 're going to build up hatred . |
| 12 | In that period of time we 'd have dropped from being the largest and preferred supplier to a minority supplier |
| 13 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 14 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 15 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 16 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 17 | When you have used a certain rod for any length of time you become accustomed to its ‘ feel ’ . |
| 18 | Before you leave your desk for any length of time you load Back Soon which gives you a choice of messages to display . |
| 19 | According to the Swedish psychologist A.Kjellberg , lapses are the most dramatic outcomes of lowered arousal , but as the sleepy subject is performing a work-paced task for any length of time his responses become degraded even before the occurrence of frank lapses in attention . |
| 20 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 21 | Claudia started more coffee , reflecting that if Dana was going to stay for any length of time she would need fresh supplies . |
| 22 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 23 | At that moment in time I did n't want to become entangled in problems with Simon and Celeste . |
| 24 | Okay , at that point in time they had n't actually er taken |
| 25 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 26 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 27 | At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears . |
| 28 | And at at at this point in time we do not t think it 's appropriate that be be added in this amendment to the structure plan Mr chairman . |
| 29 | In the latter years the Falcons owned by the Department of National Defence were seen as an un-necessary and additional expense to the Ministry of Transport JetStars , and at this point in time their future is uncertain . |
| 30 | Mervyn Whyte , secretary of the meeting told me today : ‘ At this point in time he 'll not be on the front row of the grid but Billy Nutt , the clerk of the course , and myself will be going through the speeds later today and deciding the grid positions . |