Example sentences of "[prep] a specific time " in BNC.

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1 All knowledge , including that about social life , is a product of a specific time and place , both a particular set of social conditions and a particular way of thinking about society .
2 A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate .
3 A resource report shows assignments for a specific time period with planned , actual and notes in a convenient format .
4 Each target is attempted five times in Figure 4.10 within a specific time period , usually a week .
5 It could be argued that this is an organization matter not an accounting one ; that a control needs to be introduced which prevents managers artificially postponing cash payments , e.g. a rule that all invoices must be paid within a specific time .
6 It 's easy to control , including the scheduling aspects — you can delay a fax send until a specific time , sending all your faxes for one day after 6pm , say , in order to take advantage of off peak telephone rates ( or after midnight , if you have a midnight line ) .
7 More commonly , the parties ( or the court ) may consider that the matrimonial home should stand in the sole name of the wife but that the husband should be compensated by the payment of cash , or ( if cash is not available ) that the husband should have a charge on the property for a fixed amount ( as opposed to an interest in the equityas to which see Chapter 6 ) , the calling in of the charge being deferred until a specific time or happening of a specified event ( eg death of wife , remarriage of wife or youngest child attaining the age of eighteen years ) .
8 This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd .
9 Urging national governments to develop further the structure of the planned political union , as an essential concomitant to successful economic and monetary union , the Bundesbank said that the fulfilment of entry criteria and conditions of economic convergence between EC countries should not be linked to a specific time frame ( as provided for in the treaty ) .
10 This process of the effective addition of value to meet a specific executive information need at a specific time and place is most certainly not a trivial task .
11 The plot shows temperatures at a specific time .
12 Elsewhere we have argued that part of what made René Lévesque and Lee Iacocca effective as leaders was the temporal significance of their vision : they appealed powerfully to the specific needs of specific stakeholders at a specific time .
13 These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) .
14 It politely requested that , for security reasons , I bring my ship down to Underlight speed at specific co-ordinates , at a specific time , and prepare for rendezvous with the Emissary 's ship .
15 Certain public transactions , notably where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , require funds to be available in a specific currency at a specific time and place .
16 In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee .
17 To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required .
18 Consequently , weathering profiles are rarely in full equilibrium with environmental conditions ; in most cases the weathering mantle adjusts to long-term average conditions rather than to conditions at a specific time .
19 to grow things you 've got ta do it at a specific time if you 're gon na wan na plan
20 ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last .
21 If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage .
22 If they are worried about the possibility of aggression in the visit they must tell their supervisor of their expected time of return or alternatively make arrangements for telephoning the office by a specific time .
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