Example sentences of "is [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it seems to be rather characteristic , as is the close coincidence in time of episodes of mass extinction and radiation of a wide variety of animal and plant groups , both terrestrial and marine . |
| 2 | The second cause for concern is the sheer length of time for which the parties seem to continue . |
| 3 | First , there is the thermodynamic arrow of time , the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases . |
| 4 | Although most borrowers take out a loan over 25 years , five years is the average amount of time homeowners spend in one property before they move to another . |
| 5 | Although most borrowers take out a loan over 25 years , five years is the average amount of time borrowers spend in one property before they move to another . |
| 6 | If there 's a continual turnover of material we can actually calculate its residence time , that is the average length of time a particular molecule of substance X spends in the ocean . |
| 7 | The first is the average length of time between first receipt of an application and a visit . |
| 8 | Is the real wage over time so at this point let's just say that 's a hundred , a hundred pounds and this is ten say two , well lifespan is thirty , thirty years and a hundred pounds erm today , today is worth er no |
| 9 | Then , there is the psychological arrow of time . |
| 10 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 11 | Finally , there is the cosmological arrow of time . |
| 12 | There is no theoretical requirement for time symmetry in reversal : it may initiate preferentially in one hemisphere , for example , or may start slowly and finish quickly . |
| 13 | True , there is a general drift through time towards more complex plants , more perfectly adapted to life away from water , but primitive species have persisted alongside the innovations . |
| 14 | Metaphorically speaking , the research front is a frozen moment in time ; a snapshot of the state of a growing , changing , organic entity at a precise instant , seen from a single viewpoint . |
| 15 | The radioactive decay , through which a radionuclide loses half its radioactivity , is a fixed length of time for each element , and is referred to as the half-life of a substance . |
| 16 | It is not really , I suppose , a bad school as schools go but it is a sorry waste of time & energy … |
| 17 | There are flaws : ‘ Lenchmob Also In Tha Group ’ is a total waste of time , and ‘ Guerillas In Tha Mist ’ is an idea already sued twice . |
| 18 | Which is a total waste of time cos they 'll rewrite it all in a year 's time . |
| 19 | ‘ Teaching at home is a bloody waste of time — the students are so alienated that they are just not interested . ’ |
| 20 | This equation may be solved using Laplace transforms if z(t) is a simple function of time such as a polynomial . |
| 21 | In any case , this type of speculation is a complete waste of time and anyone who seriously thinks that all is quiet on the western front as the twentieth century draws to a close must be dozing in his dug-out . |
| 22 | In trying to educate people against using it , I would emphasise not its dangers but the fact that ultimately it is a complete waste of time and money . |
| 23 | In my opinion , any attempt to reconcile the statements of principle in Lawrence and Morris is a complete waste of time . |
| 24 | ‘ This is a complete waste of time , ’ said Edward . |
| 25 | What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . . |
| 26 | In network analysis , because G(s) relates to a signal that is a real function of time , the poles and zeros are either real or they occur as complex conjugate pairs . |
| 27 | Repent , ie change your thinking about what is a valuable use of time . |
| 28 | No , all you need , to catch up with spring work , is a little expertise in time management . |
| 29 | One matter which is viewed as significant is a short space of time between the provocation and the killing , and there are some judicial statements which treat this as a matter of law : the loss of self-control must , it is sometimes held , be ‘ sudden and temporary ’ . |
| 30 | In addition , we know that output is a decreasing function of time ( to the horizon ) , so we can express the various comparative static predictions in the form : |