Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stronger than its danger , there arises out of the couplet a sense of the nobility of man , and a grand magnitude that lies throughout the passage of time and whose power , when harnessed , as now by the poet , renders all things glorious and reassuring . |
| 2 | This alternates with the amount of time until desaturation is achieved ( no flying time ) , signified by an image of an aeroplane . |
| 3 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 4 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 5 | Each of these assets has over the fullness of time authored its own particular problems and dilemmas . |
| 6 | fatigue increases and mental performance worsens as the amount of time spent on the task increases , particularly if we have lost sleep or the task is repetitive and boring . |
| 7 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 8 | But erm what we 're looking for is th , what you 've learnt and er , the ability to think for yourself and erm all sorts of scrappiness and inaccuracies and you know , all that , we 've we make allowances for , because that happens under the pressure of time and erm nerves . |
| 9 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 10 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 11 | There is a large body of case law concerned with the meaning of particular expressions in particular contexts , but the drafter should bear in mind the cautionary words of Lord Esher MR : No general rule exists for the computation of time , either under the Bankruptcy Act or any other statute , or , indeed , where time is mentioned in a contract , and the rational mode of computation of time is to have regard in each case to the purpose for which the computation is to be made ( Re North , ex parte Hasluck [ 1895 ] 2 QB 264 ) . |
| 12 | It appears the risk increases with the length of time HRT is taken and the higher the dose of oestrogen . |
| 13 | The whole complex structure of the liturgy throughout the year orders and enacts believers ' common sense of how an ultimate reality engages with the processes of time : the Mass through the celebration of a corporate sense of all life as a divine gift sustained by processes of death and resurrection ; the office by a daily pattern of worship varying throughout the year to commemorate the significance of the events of the Incarnation and link the activities of the Church in time present with the saints . |
| 14 | It means that neither the magnitude nor the position of the charge varies as a function of time . |
| 15 | This is valid for the case when the flux linking a stationary circuit varies as a function of time . |
| 16 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |
| 17 | The degree of confusion usually reduces with the passage of time , although it can be heightened at any point in life as a result of threat or adversity . |
| 18 | Mr Kundra added : ‘ He stays at the flat from time to time — perhaps two or three times a year . ’ |
| 19 | The divorce rate also varies by the amount of time the marriage has lasted . |
| 20 | These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 . |
| 21 | Candidates are awarded credit for individual areas of study as these are completed , and no time limit applies to the length of time it may take to complete either the professional certificate or diploma programmes so long as these programmes are still offered by HCIMA . |
| 22 | This constraint refers to the amount of time the organization takes to produce its financial report . |
| 23 | Another way in which the question of balance arises concerns the direction in which support flows and whether this changes over the course of time . |
| 24 | The second cost associated with producing fund accounts relates to the investment of time and skill needed to understand them . |
| 25 | Tension eases with the passage of time , no matter how unbearable it seems at the outset . |
| 26 | Physical death follows in the course of time . |
| 27 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 28 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 29 | Consequently the two uses of the to infinitive arise from representing the extra-verbal support either as separated from the actualization of what the verb denotes by a lapse of time or as attaining the place in time where this actualization takes place . |
| 30 | Virtually everyone who works for an enterprise from time to time will acquire information from the environment of potential value to its operations . |