Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] in time " in BNC.

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1 To ensure that developments are completed in time , the LDDC grants building licences to developers but retains the title to the site .
2 Community studies , like all social research , are limited in time .
3 The group hope to leave Britain on February 20 if the necessary visas are received in time .
4 Here the needing and the daring are situated in time as realities , and as such they must necessarily be conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to do and turn , as a need calling for action and an exercising of audacity leading to the achieving of a result .
5 Futures and forward contracts have the common feature that the agreement to transact and the transaction itself are separated in time : both payment and delivery are made in future , unlike in the spot market where the the agreement is simultaneous with the exchange .
6 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 .
7 Within a medieval siege tent you are transported in time to the castle keep ; the lights dim and the 1066 Story begins … projected images , lighting , multi-track sound and even an appearance by King Harold and William the Conqueror !
8 They can be reliably dug out again only by averaging over many presentations so that the random background fluctuations cancel each other out , leaving just the potential shifts that are linked in time to the triggering event .
9 By the 1850s attempts to understand the arrangement of animals had thus reached the limits possible if one assumes that species are fixed in time .
10 If the images themselves are changing in time , as in the case of animations or motion video , the problem is compounded .
11 Given that cohort size is reduced both by syntactic and semantic context and by incoming sensory information , it is necessary to decide how these two influences are co-ordinated in time .
12 Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity .
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