Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 2 | People were expected to come on time , but that was accepted as Claudia being a bit eccentric . |
| 3 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
| 4 | If the spot price is not expected to change over time , then in contracts with a positive basis the futures price in the contracts with nearby delivery dates will be lower than the futures price in the contracts with distant delivery dates ( a situation known as normal contango ) . |
| 5 | How are they expected to change over time , for example , in relation to new developments , market conditions , competitors , new legislation , exchange rates and political risks ? |
| 6 | His articles on his childhood and schooldays had won praise from time to time from all but the most dour Communists , who resented his privileged background . |
| 7 | A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource . |
| 8 | If the Shareholders decide not to proceed with the proposed sale for any reason , the fees of KPMG and [ name ] will be calculated according to time spent and will not exceed £ [ x ] in the case of KPMG and £ [ y ] in the case of [ lawyer ] and all such fees will be payable by the Company . |
| 9 | Make evokes merely the idea of " producing an effect " ( = the event expressed by the infinitive ) , so that causation is represented as operating instant by instant throughout the actualization of the latter and the two events are felt to coincide in time . |
| 10 | The subject of make , on the other hand , refers to the persons who will actually effect the change , and the making and the changing are felt to coincide in time ( " concurrent causation " ) . |
| 11 | The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage . |
| 12 | Biological features of the colonizing vegetation were seen to change with time and from the rate of change in these features a time for ecosystem recovery was calculated . |
| 13 | As in " The retreate " , a distal demonstrative construction is used to point to time past ; and this also has a qualifying element ( the phrase " which can not die " ) . |
| 14 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
| 15 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 16 | Cumulative apoptotic deaths , of 100 cells of each type , are shown plotted against time . |
| 17 | I could n't understand how these moments had become frozen in time like that . |
| 18 | By the same token , there is no discernible law according to which class differences are bound to intensify with time . |
| 19 | While there are some ‘ off the shelf ’ packages which can be employed to assist in time and cost controls , there are no comprehensive programmes which can simply be applied to every surveying job , basically because no two are entirely alike . |
| 20 | A book about his Beirut experience , called Suspended In Time , is due out next year . |
| 21 | Brisk afternoon wind arrived bang on time for an exciting sail . |
| 22 | ( 123 ) Patriotic Englishmen have been known to strike in time of war . |
| 23 | Wood Green 's challenge was never likely to succeed after two players arrived 61 minutes late and were declared lost on time . |
| 24 | The modern modification of representative democracy is therefore to see the public as being allowed to choose from time to time between two or more broad political programmes , and being able to reject a party that has failed to carry out its promises . |
| 25 | There is , however , a video of his performance which he is encouraged to play from time to time by his two children . |
| 26 | Initially conceived to capitalise on Time Out being off the streets , it was clearly a mistake to sit back and allow Time Out to return first . |
| 27 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 28 | The total amount paid decreases over time , as it consists of a constant principle repayment plus interest on the outstanding principle . |
| 29 | When the idea of a school-industry partnership was first mooted a fundamental question required answering before time and resource could be committed to its development . |
| 30 | The judges decided 7-0 against Mr Santos on the grounds that the party he had joined at the last minute in order to stand , the little-known Brazilian Municipalist Party which was founded by Pentecostal preachers , had failed to register in time . |