Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the epidemic in five or ten years time has not been estimated with confidence ; the epidemic will be determined by the number of people with HIV infection who develop AIDS over time . |
| 2 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 3 | For example , Brenner assumes , on theoretical grounds , a time-lag between an increase in unemployment and that in mortality : but Joseph Eyer argues that Brenner 's tagged relationship between unemployment and ill-health ( roughly , unemployment at time A causes illness at time B ) really reflects a close relationship between work and ill-health ( roughly , employment at time B causes illness at time B ) . |
| 4 | For example , Brenner assumes , on theoretical grounds , a time-lag between an increase in unemployment and that in mortality : but Joseph Eyer argues that Brenner 's tagged relationship between unemployment and ill-health ( roughly , unemployment at time A causes illness at time B ) really reflects a close relationship between work and ill-health ( roughly , employment at time B causes illness at time B ) . |
| 5 | The view that the Lord 's Day is essentially the Jewish Sabbath — a ‘ taboo ’ day — transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found expression from time to time in medieval law and theology . |
| 6 | Keeping track of time |
| 7 | yet the revival of his ‘ non-Gilbert ’ works has hardly caught fire in time to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in London on May 13th 1842 . |
| 8 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 9 | Public examination statistics have regularly been collected although difficulties of establishing comparability over time , and across different examination boards and subjects , have reduced their usefulness for assessing the performance of the education system as a whole . |
| 10 | Well over half of those killed are young children or elderly people who are overcome by smoke and fumes while they sleep at night — people whose chances of survival would be drastically improved if only they were able to reach safety in time . |
| 11 | The nurse will know that her situation will present conflict from time to time , but that this is recognised . |
| 12 | Because it frees performance from time , assembling it bit by bit , it encourages demystified production : ‘ Tape runs forwards , backwards and at many speeds . |
| 13 | Through Christ , God has made sense of time , and the moment of his ‘ breaking in ’ becomes the moment of discovery , hope and salvation . |
| 14 | In a nutshell , it is argued that either Van Valen 's results show linearity with time , which is held to be biologically without significance , or most do not , in which case Van Valen 's ‘ law ’ breaks down . |
| 15 | The tremendous variety of activities in Dorset ensure that I will continue to visit time after time . |
| 16 | The fragrance can be revitalised time after time with oils supplied ( £2.99 . ) |
| 17 | He refused to be drawn on what would happen if the two failed to reach agreement in time to get the banks ' support for an extra £1bn-£1.2bn of finance next year . |
| 18 | The Burscough boss believes he can put his finger on why his side can consistently beat opposition from higher leagues , as they have done time after time in the past two years , yet struggle at their own level . |
| 19 | These same pressures help to explain why vacations are not taken and long hours are accepted as any individual decision to take a holiday or finish work on time places a burden on the rest of the work group . |
| 20 | Mr McQueen left , heading south in time to preach next morning at Bracadale , and saying he would wait for them at Ullinish . |
| 21 | The study of equilibrium growth paths , on the other hand , takes as given that investment and full employment savings are equal , and proceeds typically by analysing development over time in terms of the behaviour of savings . |
| 22 | But no , a quick consultation of the calendar , given to you so happily by the feed rep last Christmas ( at the same time he gave you a bill ) , shows lighting up time to be 18.52 . |
| 23 | There is evidence to suggest that young swains showed interest from time to time but were probably defeated by lack of time and opportunity on the one hand and by Hannah 's shy , reserved nature on the other . |
| 24 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 25 | In other cases the fact that the rent was to be " conclusively fixed " by the landlord 's trigger notice if the tenant failed to give counter-notice in time was held to be a sufficient indication that time was of the essence ( Mammoth Greeting Cards v Agra [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 124 ; Barrett Estate Services v David Greig ( Retail ) [ 1991 ] 2 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 26 | The New Contemporaries exhibitors continued to plot this constellation , using mixed media primarily associated with mutability , with process : substances like water or pastry , hair or wax , sand and vegetables , oil and light and cloth , which imply change over time . |
| 27 | If this is correct then there are important implications for people who are ‘ near the borderline ’ , if it is decided not to change the clocks between the summer and winter , but rather to retain Daylight Saving Time throughout the year . |
| 28 | Would hope return in time ? |
| 29 | Vision as leadership is a drama which takes place in time . |
| 30 | If he reasonably does not discover his right until a short time before the last days of the three months have elapsed , then obviously it would probably not be reasonably practicable to give notice in time . |