Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 2 | If you are being honest with yourself and with her and you really are terribly pressed for time , you will never be short of concrete reasons to give , and she will find these much more acceptable and less hurtful than vague excuses , provided , of course , that your overall treatment of her is one of care and not neglect . |
| 3 | Never was a man so constrained by time . |
| 4 | Since much of the teaching materials used in FE is written ( textbooks , handouts , worksheets ) and examinations have until recently been almost entirely written to time , examples of material are examined and participants work on adapting and writing supplementary materials for use with bilingual students . |
| 5 | The Laplacian derivation of the response of a series resonant circuit comprising resistance R , inductance L and capacitance C , to an e.m.f. suddenly applied at time , is worthy of comparison with the direct derivation of the same response carried out in section 4.5 through the solution of appropriate differential equations . |
| 6 | I have in mind the experience of being suddenly thrust outside time , which constitutes in The Idiot and elsewhere the epileptic aura . |
| 7 | Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura . |
| 8 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
| 9 | And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire , a feeling I 'm sure we 've all experienced from time to time . |
| 10 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
| 11 | To begin with , consider just a simple series circuit embracing total inductance L and resistance R into which a steady e.m.f. is suddenly introduced at time . |
| 12 | The actions are subject to random error terms each period , which are normal , independent and identically distributed through time with distributions and respectively . |
| 13 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 14 | They were not only revived from time to time in Venice during the next twenty years but performed in a number of other Italian cities . |
| 15 | It was incredible , so incredible , so lost in time that it did something to me — changed my perspective , my outlook , something strange that even now I barely understand . |
| 16 | In practice , uneven allocation often arises with the development of subjects ; the original allocation of the scheme becomes less balanced with time and the emergence of new subdivisions . |
| 17 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 18 | A curiosity in Enescu 's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the same genre but widely separated in time : the two Op. 24 piano sonatas of 1924 and 1935 , for example ( the latter in fact called No. 3 , since the composer confessed that No. 2 existed only in his head and was never written down ) , or the more extreme case of the two Op. 26 cello sonatas of 1898 and 1935 . |
| 19 | Er these hours th just developed over time or is just the work that 's go |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But I kept hold of the reins and Prince just stopped in time . |
| 23 | Jackie had a nasty puncture in practice on the 150-m.p.h. straight and though he was not injured , his Matra was only just repaired in time for the race . |
| 24 | Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop . |
| 25 | They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand . |
| 26 | It was only just finished in time : according to Constanze , the overture ( the last section to be composed ) was completed just two days before the premiere . |
| 27 | For a start , he was driving far too fast , had only just swerved in time to avoid a cyclist , and was now desperately trying to overtake a pale blue Renault , when it was obvious there was n't room , and the road ahead was too winding to see if it was clear . |
| 28 | Foreign business also has a more practical complaint : because of China 's credit squeeze , bills are no longer paid on time . |
| 29 | As a business becomes more sophisticated , as the founder is more pressed for time and is earning more money , the concept of outside help becomes more acceptable and , ultimately , desirable . |
| 30 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |