Example sentences of "[vb pp] [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 | Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Far from being static these are redefined over time in line with economic and social change . |
| 13 | The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients . |
| 14 | 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 . |