Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As decisions became for oneself increasingly final and far-reaching in their implications , it was refreshing to deal with problems that would be solved by the mere passage of time . |
| 2 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 3 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 4 | Our subjective sense of the direction of time , the psychological arrow of time , is therefore determined within our brain by the thermodynamic arrow of time . |
| 5 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 6 | The headship of the amalgamated department will be assigned by the Hebdomadal Council from time to time for specified periods of not less than five years to one of the persons holding an established academic post in the department , normally with the title of professor or reader . |
| 7 | Clearly , although he did not agree with Plato , he too was profoundly influenced by the cosmological view of time . |
| 8 | It will , though , be tempered by the healing gap of time , so that it has become ‘ This time the year before last … ’ not ‘ This time last year … ’ . |
| 9 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 10 | A leasehold estate is measured by a fixed period of time ; it is often called a term of years , though a tenancy for weeks or months is equally a leasehold . |
| 11 | Our response to talk of the birth of a daughter is that a daughter was born , provided of course that the talk and the child are separated ( that same device ) by a long period of time and a reasonable number of pages . |