Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracing and , where possible , explaining changes over time in these fundamental features of economic life is the major task . |
| 2 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 3 | Keeping track of time |
| 4 | Public examination statistics have regularly been collected although difficulties of establishing comparability over time , and across different examination boards and subjects , have reduced their usefulness for assessing the performance of the education system as a whole . |
| 5 | Establishing trends over time in GP consultation rates is problematic . |
| 6 | This group of professionals has not even bothered to ease the biggest problem facing entrepreneurs — apart from the unavailability of cheap finance — which is the lack of cash flow that results from customers not paying bills on time . |
| 7 | Mr McQueen left , heading south in time to preach next morning at Bracadale , and saying he would wait for them at Ullinish . |
| 8 | ‘ We also take in paying guests from time to time , ’ said Ernest awkwardly . |
| 9 | Measuring changes over time |
| 10 | The study of equilibrium growth paths , on the other hand , takes as given that investment and full employment savings are equal , and proceeds typically by analysing development over time in terms of the behaviour of savings . |
| 11 | He was outstanding in charity and compassion , paying for the release of prisoners who were detained for debts and succouring families in time of need , but giving strict charge that they should not acknowledge the source of this help . |
| 12 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 13 | There clearly are standard systems for locating points in time and space . |
| 14 | It 's not easy if titles run out just before Christmas , and there is no chance of getting replenishment in time . ’ |
| 15 | A graph of the stepping rate against time as the motor moves between the initial and target positions is commonly referred to as the " velocity profile " ; a typical example is shown in Fig. 6.6(a) . |
| 16 | Figure 3 plots the percentage of listed industrial companies with potentially failing profiles over time from 1978 to date . |
| 17 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 18 | ‘ At first it was quite good having loads of time , and money was n't really a problem , I just stopped buying things . |
| 19 | He 's meticulous in attending meetings on time . |
| 20 | — orientating clients to time and place and appropriate behaviour |
| 21 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 22 | REPUBLIC of Ireland midfield star Roy Keane was set to announce today that he will be joining Blackburn in time for the start of the new Premier League season . |
| 23 | While central Government will certainly wish to exercise its rights to alter spending priorities from time to time , even their own goals will not often be achieved by fiddling with elements of an extremely complicated formula , which introduces unexpected as well as intended change . |
| 24 | The description of Jemmy Lirriper 's model railway is a humorous epitome of the early history of the railways , with their accidents , the way in which the public was treated by the various interests , parliamentary and private , early experiments in signalling , ‘ mushroom ’ railway undertakings , worthless railway shares during the mania of the 1840s , starting trains behind time , and surveying for new lines ; summarized as ‘ everything upside down by Act of Parliament ’ . |
| 25 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 26 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 27 | A two way analysis examining treatment by time was also performed . |
| 28 | You find yourself gradually losing track of time , the outside world is pushing away — apart from the occasional sound which pulls you back , you do sink into yourself — and time seems to become irrelevant . |
| 29 | You find yourself gradually losing track of time , the outside world is pushing away — apart from the occasional sound which pulls you back , you do sink into yourself — and time seems to become irrelevant . |
| 30 | She felt the fire inside her begin to burn again and she pushed the door wide open , her mouth ready to frame a few well-chosen words on the importance of finishing jobs on time . |