Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | So the classic typological races disappear in the scientific reality of time , environment and geography . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … . |
| 11 | … 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Psychologists have found that a great number of items can be learned in a fixed amount of time if these fit into established and interconnected patterns . |
| 19 | Furthermore , a great number of items can be learnt in a fixed amount of time if these fit into established and interconnected patterns ; and the smaller the difference between one step and the next , the better the learning . |
| 20 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 21 | Not so , says Mr Crust : ‘ Even in this environment , if your house is alight you want a fireman there and you want him there in a reasonable length of time . ’ |
| 22 | They must prove to Thadeus that they 're here to destroy what he hates , and they 've got to do this in a reasonable period of time . |
| 23 | However , the importance of the semantic analyser relative to the other modules constitutes a narrower issue and one that can be investigated in a reasonable period of time . |
| 24 | Normally we need to look at large numbers of objects ( tens , or perhaps hundreds ) : the analytical technique must therefore give results in a reasonable amount of time per sample and cope with large numbers of objects . |
| 25 | For the children , Penny has put in a tremendous amount of time , effort , and shoe leather to produce a really useful booklet of activities to go to locally with under 5's . |
| 26 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 27 | Frieda suggests that you can get great results in a minimum amount of time by remembering this fact . |
| 28 | The producers who supervise Radio 1 sessions tend to be musicians who are used to coaxing good performances out of young bands in a limited period of time . |
| 29 | ‘ I have spent over £500 in shrubs plants and bulbs , and put in a great deal of time collecting rocks and weeding and feeding the plants ’ . |
| 30 | Erm th the reduction in the cost of discretionary awards which is partly the result of the policies that are partly also changing the , in the national situation and increased recruitment funding and in an area into which officers put in a great deal of time to try to make sure that we do the equivalent they should be getting . |