Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 2 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 3 | Suilven , that finest of all Sutherland mountains , is described as : ‘ One sandstone chord that holds up time in space . ’ |
| 4 | Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ? |
| 5 | Last year , the rains came on time in April . |
| 6 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |
| 7 | This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion . |
| 8 | The fact that these things happen over time in the same place matters , even if this study does not draw on Giddens ' ( 1981 ) notion of structuration to address this sort of question . |
| 9 | The scope of debate is limited or shifted over time in particular directions , but always in a direction which consolidates power into more permanent forms , which in time may become almost invisible to citizens , accepted as uncontroversial , ‘ natural ’ features of the landscape . |
| 10 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 11 | The effect is plain to see in the way that the velocity curves change with time in Fig. 8.7(a) . |
| 12 | When they said , for example , ‘ in the reign of the King Cheops ’ they thought of a distant event situated in time in a rather vague way . |
| 13 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 14 | Having done just that half way through this contest which was judged on time in the first round , she had an agonising wait to see whether anyone would catch her . |
| 15 | The players at Bridgetown , and the umpires , took that to mean that 90 overs in a day would be reduced by time in proportion to wickets take ; i.e. eight wickets=16 minutes=four overs=a minimum of 86 overs for the day . |
| 16 | And you always worked by time in stables , you 'd get out at say , you went at six o'clock , you got out till seven and were out two hours , that 's seven , eight , nine . |
| 17 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 18 | It will therefore be desirable to define the consequences of a failure to perform on time , for instance by stating that " time for performance is of the essence " , or by defining a term as a " condition " or by expressly providing that " if X fails to perform on time in accordance with this provision , Y shall be entitled to terminate this contract " . |
| 19 | Why have penal ideas and practices altered over time in the West in the ways described in the ‘ Schools of Penal Thought ’ section of the previous chapter ? |
| 20 | Although there are important differences between the various theories , the great majority of researchers assert that ‘ aggression ’ ( however defined ; see below for a discussion on definitions ) is an integral part of human nature ; and that aggressive impulses and behaviour have somehow to be directed and controlled for human relations to be sustained over time in a social setting . |
| 21 | Far from being static these are redefined over time in line with economic and social change . |
| 22 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 23 | If this blob is in a turbulent flow , its distribution will change with time in the way indicated schematically by successive configurations in Fig. 20.5 ( see also Fig. 21.6 ) . |
| 24 | The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients . |
| 25 | The two inputs have to be combined or associated in time in the same sort of way that conditioning and unconditioned stimuli have to be combined for association learning to occur . |
| 26 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 27 | While Westerners were impressed that the trains ran on time in Italy , and that unemployment had been solved in Germany , Hitler was preparing for war . |
| 28 | Now let us assume a more dynamic perspective and consider how this religion actually works over time in different phases of the life-cycle of the local group . |
| 29 | Consistently departing on time in a multi-sector , tightly scheduled environment requires considerable concentration of effort by the pilots , but also teamwork from the engineers and ground handlers . |