Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profit is normally seen as a flow over time whereas wealth can be described as a stock at a point in time . |
| 2 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 3 | In both projective and reactive uses , however , the infinitive expresses an actualized contingent event and the impression of contingency implies a reference to a position in time when the infinitive 's event was not a reality ( i.e. before its actualization ) , so that the term " reactive " is no more appropriate here than in the canonical uses of the " infinitive of reaction " as a description of the meaning of the to infinitive . |
| 4 | We saw that we can think about this on a stock basis at a point in time or on a flow basis per period of time . |
| 5 | In the use with the bare infinitive , the speaker simply wishes to represent the attributing of the infinitive 's event to a support in time as outside the field of possibility ( hence necessarily non-actual ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nobody would claim that an audit is a perfect process : it is a snapshot at a moment in time , with the client often deciding how much light is to be let into the exposure . |
| 8 | This is because the balance sheet is a record of the financial position of the company at a point in time , rather than a forecast of future events . |
| 9 | The balance sheet provides a " static picture " of the financial position at a point in time ; the profit and loss account and source and application of funds statement show the flows which have occurred during the accounting period . |