Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each suspected the other ( each suspected ) of personal , biographical reasons for arguing the case that each , by and large , argued : and the difference between them was in itself odd , as in the great graph of time and place their paths had oddly crossed and oddly coincided . |
| 2 | In the correct use of time , nothing must remain idle or useless : everything must be called upon to form the support of the act required . " |
| 3 | The Chinese were more interested in the practical measurement of time than were the inhabitants of India . |
| 4 | There was a slight awkward pause and in the tiny fraction of time that it lasted Harriet experienced a stab of pique . |
| 5 | The subjective inner world of animals was not denied and an evolutionary development of sensed-worlds was assumed because of the complexity indicated by the increasing sophistication of perceptual and communicational mechanisms , but only the behaviour could be charted and recorded in the actual passage of time . |
| 6 | The main disadvantage of the method lies in the long periods of time required to reach equilibrium . |
| 7 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 8 | Suppose now , though , that in the next period of time , period t + I , autonomous investment ( 10 ) rises by £10 to £510 . |
| 9 | So the classic typological races disappear in the scientific reality of time , environment and geography . |
| 10 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you can carry on in your bid to break as many bones as humanly possible in the shortest space of time . ’ |
| 12 | A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts , acts , atoms and wounds , love , indifference and dislike ; also of his race and nation , the soil that fed him and his forebears , the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience , of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women , of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law , of all this and something else too , a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself , and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next , and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come . |
| 13 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 14 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 15 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 16 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 17 | Asked by Crown counsel how Aindow had regained his balance , taken aim and fired in the short space of time available , the accused replied ‘ I do n't know ’ . |
| 18 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |
| 19 | You have to make sure that the period of the regular payments is measured in the same unit of time as the interest and the term . |
| 20 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 21 | Despite the Peacocks ' less than perfect performances Chapman 's achievement in two years was no less remarkable than that at Northampton in the same space of time . |
| 22 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 23 | Or in other words , why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 24 | Conditions in the contracting phase would not be suitable for the existence of intelligent beings who could ask the question : Why is disorder increasing in the same direction of time as that in which the universe is expanding ? |
| 25 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 26 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 27 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 28 | If you had knitted the ribbed welt , it might have knitted 300 rows in the same amount of time . |
| 29 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 30 | For example , a doctor may be able to see more patients each hour and he may be being more efficient by seeing more people in a fixed period of time . |