Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the capital market is imperfect such that the lending rate exceeds the borrowing rate , the results of the arbitrage argument may vary , depending on whether cash is being moved forwards in time at the lending rate , or backwards in time at the borrowing rate . |
| 2 | Schools could work forwards or backwards in time ( though it is expected that at all times there will be reference to time-lines , and time-charts , and that attention will be given to the question " when did this happen in the past ? " ) . |
| 3 | To make the point , he described a visit to a Toyota assembly line where they had developed the Kamba or Just in Time system . |
| 4 | Then , if it seems necessary , it is possible to go either backwards or forwards in time during that same lifetime to complete the picture . |
| 5 | We can then move backwards or forwards in time . |
| 6 | Sometimes it is interesting to play speculative games by projecting historical events and characters forward or backward in time in order to view them in the context of a different time or place . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly in a small fish with an extensive but virtually one-dimensional ( East-West ) range , different populations have developed different colour patterns , and perhaps in time these will become different species altogether . |
| 8 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 9 | In part this was a reflection of the great strain on small financial resources which building , maintaining and perhaps in time enlarging workhouses imposed , but it also reflected the greater difficulty in an effective and controlled administration of out-relief in the more anonymous and densely populated towns . |
| 10 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |
| 11 | Definitely in a humorous vein and just in time for Christmas is Banger and Pranger in Snowman 's Land by Graham Hey and Brian Robinson . |
| 12 | PLAYER : Well met , in fact , and just in time . |
| 13 | ‘ But now I 'm back , ’ he murmured , his voice cool , ‘ and just in time , I see . ’ |
| 14 | They arrived in Carlingford to a fine drizzle , and just in time for Ellie to take part in the leprechaun hunt . |
| 15 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 16 | Then back to the majlis for coffee again , and home in time for noon prayers . |
| 17 | The story is not an easy one to follow , particularly as it goes back and forth in time , and locations change quickly . |
| 18 | But there are a lot of flaws : the idea of combining four generations involves weaving back and forth in time which works occasionally . |
| 19 | A delighted Jatinder said : ‘ Gurinder will be home in time for my dad 's birthday and well in time for the birth of our baby . ’ |
| 20 | Connie 's visions of her past are expertly merged with the present as she moves backwards and forwards in time , following an order of association , not chronology . |
| 21 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 22 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 23 | Yes , the will be floating in the river when we went down to do the foundations , so it , it has cost a lot more money in , than we anticipated , and certainly in time and effort . |
| 24 | She nearly stuck ; but just in time |
| 25 | Riled by the peremptory note of command in his voice , Rory opened her mouth to give him a scathing reply , but just in time caught the sideways glance slid her way by Candy and bit her tongue . |
| 26 | But just in time , it fell into place . |
| 27 | But even in time the unfinished and the sketchy , an impermanence of setting that does not contain or define , became the characteristics of a new domestic agnosticism . |
| 28 | According to the Parsons grapevine , the idea of a Grand Slam Cup for women is very much on the cards again — probably not this year , but certainly in time for 1993 . |
| 29 | A more direct comparison with 2001 , though later in time , is Peter Hyams 's version ( made in 1984 ) of Arthur C Clarke 's 1982 novel , 2010 . |
| 30 | The " subsequent actualization " sense of the to infinitive also involves this double position of the support : person as support of the event of the finite verb is represented as prior in time to person as support of the infinitive 's event . |