Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directorate has a continual need for processed information to support decision making , to develop policy and advice for Academic Board and Governors , and to satisfy the appetite of external bodies such as DF.S , CNAA , NAB/PCFC , etc. for numerical information From time to time there is also the need for high quality information to support particular initiatives , such as the ( successful ) application for accreditation . |
| 2 | Typical examples of this are the inability to have biosensors that can operate effectively for any length of time in blood and the need for anticoagulants during extracorporeal procedures such as dialysis and heart-lung bypass operations . |
| 3 | The court heard that Mr Prescott , 28 , and his teammates Bernard Bryan , Colin Osbourne Wright and Jacqueline Watson used the drugs only for short periods of time for training in the run-up to a major event . |
| 4 | The court heard that Mr Prescott , 28 , and his teammates Bernard Bryan , Colin Osbourne Wright and Jaqueline Watson used the drugs only for short periods of time for training in the run-up to a major event , as is common . |
| 5 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 6 | It was hard to keep a juvenile troupe together for any length of time . |
| 7 | Rarely had they been left alone together for any length of time , but one thing now seemed certain . |
| 8 | Perhaps at this point in time , there was a change from sea-floor spreading in the North Atlantic area , to sea-floor contraction . |
| 9 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 10 | b ) Will doctors , particularly surgeons , be away for predictable periods of time ? |
| 11 | The only thing that we do , and we 've always done it without Neighbourhood Watch , we always make a point of telling one another when we 're gon na be away for any period of time . |
| 12 | Young children demonstrate this : their ability to concentrate entirely on what they are doing , admittedly for short periods of time , to the exclusion of everything else , gives them a particular capacity for enjoyment . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , it 's hoped the organisers can at least be persuaded to divert flight paths away from local villages in time for the next tattoo . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't pay John any bigger compliment — to be underground for that length of time . |
| 17 | He died as active as ever and , although only forty-five , had already crammed more into that space of time than most people manage in a far longer span . |
| 18 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 19 | Of course , a tactless dealer irritated him even more at this sort of time . |
| 20 | And the population of London swelled , both with naive readers of Time , and with young people from across the country . |
| 21 | Abolitionists began to create their own pantheon of heroes , veneration of whom contributed both to longitudinal solidarity over time and horizontal solidarity between groups . |
| 22 | The responsibility can be defined differently at different periods of time . |
| 23 | One of the difficulties in the procedure for the institutions was the constraint on planning of not knowing — often for long periods of time — when or whether courses would be able to begin , or even whether they would be allowed to continue . |
| 24 | Have you therefore reassessed the western relief road 's benefits on the base that y you will have now at that point in time both a southern A fifty nine , A one link and a southern northern link , if you want it for the A sixty one north of Harrogate . |
| 25 | paid me poll tax , paid me s search fee and got a little bit of cash out for readies and s , there 's now at this moment in time , there 's four hundred and fifty pound in there . |
| 26 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 27 | Kersey said : ‘ They 're doing all they can but there 's really no way they can fit us in here for any length of time . |
| 28 | She had clung to the hope even for that length of time , but it had never happened . |
| 29 | Will you have enough to do down there for that length of time Christine ? |
| 30 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |