Example sentences of "[vb pp] as the time " in BNC.

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1 This means that the model of continuous and homogeneous time which Lévi-Strauss had also argued against can not here be regarded as the time of history .
2 Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier .
3 This period could be regarded as the time when our service began to emerge from a kind of amateur status to that of a more professional one .
4 From the present viewpoint this can be regarded as the time component of the metric equation for space–time round a spherically symmetric mass .
5 This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited .
6 The nomination of a specific cargo is made as the time for delivery approaches and the right to obtain delivery of this cargo may have to be transferred to buyers in different parts of the globe .
7 He said the Thatcher years would be seen as the time ‘ in which existing pensioners missed out on the prosperity afforded to the great majority in this country .
8 Anything less involves wasted potential and the limiting factors are seen as the time and energy of the carers .
9 Adolescence may be viewed as the time at which , and only at which , the threads of childhood experience are drawn together and woven into the fabric of personality .
10 This indicates that the causal agent of the systemic response has exited the wound site within 5 minutes and contrasts with studies on older plants in which systemic pin levels increased as the time from wounding to excision increased until 120 minutes after wounding .
11 The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level .
12 Orocaecal transit time was defined as the time between meal intake and initial rise in hydrogen concentration of at least 10 ppm above fasting levels .
13 To measure acid reflux , several were used : ( 1 ) total reflux time ( min ) , defined as the time with an intraoesophageal pH <4.0 ; ( 2 ) total reflux time ( % ) , defined as the total time with an intraoesophageal pH <4.0 expressed as a percentage of the analysed period ; ( 3 ) reflux episodes >6 s , defined as the number of episodes with an intraoesophageal pH <4.0 lasting longer than 6 s ; ( 4 ) reflux episodes >5 min , defined as the number episodes with an intraoesophageal pH <4.0 lasting longer than 5 min ; ( 5 ) mean reflux duration ( min ) , defined as the mean duration of all reflux episodes ; ( 6 ) maximal reflux duration ( min ) , defined as the longest single reflux episode .
14 To measure oesophageal body motility , variables measured were : ( 1 ) amplitude of contraction ( mm Hg ) , defined as the difference between the baseline pressure and the maximal pressure during the pressure event ; ( 2 ) duration of contraction ( s ) , defined as the time elapsed between the start and the end of the pressure event ; ( 3 ) area under the pressure curve ( mm Hg×s ) , calculated from the sum of all pressure values between the start and the end of the pressure event , multiplied by the sampling interval ; ( 4 ) propagation velocity ( cm/s ) , defined as the speed of a contraction and calculated from the delay time and the distance between the sensors ; ( 5 ) contractility ( mm Hg/s ) , defined as the maximal increment between consecutive pressure values divided by the sampling interval ; ( 6 ) total contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as pressure curves that are not rejected as artifacts ; ( 7 ) propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contractions that are detected by a proximal pressure transducer and followed by a contraction at the distal sensor .
15 And just to remind you the open the open state probability can be defined as the time that the channel spends in its in the open state divided by the total time of the recording .
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