Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were oblivious of the passage of time . |
| 2 | As Karen 's lust for certainty increased , she threw in tantalising little snippets , altering some of the details from time to time . |
| 3 | Force yourselves to address them : they will not go away , and they do not become any easier with the passage of time . |
| 4 | What makes an object fashionable it is ability to signify the present ; it is thus always doomed to become unfashionable with the movement of time . |
| 5 | and , and I 'm sure that you 're aware of that feeling amongst all members that you would reflect this in the amount of time available |
| 6 | The severity of jet-lag , however , is dependent upon the number of time zones crossed rather than the length of flight . |
| 7 | One reason why these categories have proved of little practical value is that particular individuals may shift from one to another over the course of time , a fact which also illustrates an additional distinction that has to be made in describing schizophrenia . |
| 8 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 9 | These results are combined with information from Chapter 2 on the distortion of time by the Earth 's gravitational field to yield the Schwarzschild solution ( Section 4.3 ) . |
| 10 | Of course , your travels will be dependent on the amount of time you 're prepared to invest behind the wheel . |
| 11 | the Boat Race is a great British sporting occasion … untouched and untroubled by the march of time … no ticket touts or trouble … just thousands and thousands of people lining the banks of the Thames … the watches too … the boat race is still something special … |
| 12 | Its model is not unlike that of the language-game of time . |
| 13 | The project starts from the basic hypothesis that modernisation of agricultural and industrial regions was extremely uneven during the period of time here considered , and that this uneven development may have had important consequences for the development of the internal market for both agricultural and industrial products , even to some degree determining the structure and efficiency of production . |
| 14 | We must therefore resort to more indirect methods , such as the variation with time of copper-alloy composition or technology of production . |
| 15 | It may also be expected that the two systems will differ in other respects , such as the length of time each operates or the intensity of intervention , with care management being more concentrated and longer-term . |
| 16 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , other elements of prison life are equally important , such as the amount of time prisoners are kept cooped up in cells and the lack of opportunities for activities of all kinds . |
| 17 | The rules cover all aspects of daily life , such as the use of time , prayer , and conduct to superiors , inferiors and family . |
| 18 | He greeted her pleasantly , seemingly unaware of the length of time since they had last met , and her pride made her take her cue from him . |
| 19 | He sat cross-legged at the foot of the grave , unaware of the passing of time as he hewed out a cross with his bayonet . |
| 20 | Other contributions which absorb as much in the way of time and intellectual effort — new methodological or computational techniques , datasets which have some general usefulness — are all but discounted . |
| 21 | Do you find that the place has changed much in the length of time you 've worked here ? |
| 22 | The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail . |
| 23 | This little community is still in existence , largely untouched by the march of time . |
| 24 | ‘ Time Passeth ’ , yet , but poetic values are untouched by the passing of time and what existed for and moved the man Tennyson , still exists to move man today . |
| 25 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 26 | The head needs then to be very conscious of the use of time . |
| 27 | Teachers were clearly conscious of the pressure of time and the need to cover the ground intended . |
| 28 | There were traces of the same fine-boned look about him , but his features were already well masked by what was likely in the course of time to become a solid layer of self-indulgent fat . |
| 29 | Given the precedent of 1925 , it is extraordinary that its lessons have not been learnt : the inadvisability of one country pegging its currency to a more powerful one ; the inadvisability , indeed , of that country artificially pegging its currency at all in the face of pressures , speculative and real , which are likely in the fullness of time to force adjustment towards a rate determined by economic forces reflective not of political desire but of relative unit costs between countries . |
| 30 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |