Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 2 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 3 | Pretreatment of human colon adenocarcinoma derived HT-29 cells with DMJ resulted in an expression of the 105 kD β 1 precursor chain and of smaller forms of the α 1 , α 3 , α 6 , and α v integrin subunits in a time and dose dependent manner . |
| 4 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
| 5 | It will also cut training needs at a time when people no longer want to serve long apprenticeships . |
| 6 | In marketing terms it 's a tremendous card to play erm our marketing line in the States was always ‘ we speak your language , a common heritage , a common culture erm almost a common language ’ and erm the special relationship really exits at a time like this to a very marked degree , and we shall be playing that for all it 's worth , certainly . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps a trained nurse is n't quite what one wants at a time like this , ’ Sophia agreed . |
| 8 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 9 | What happens to a Time Lord who loses his TARDIS , Bernice wondered . |
| 10 | We also take ( since K ∼ N when the thermal diffusion occurs on a time scale comparable with the oscillations ) . |
| 11 | This , however , occurs at a time when the government has limited financial slack to be able to respond . |
| 12 | A variation order or some other delay caused by the client occurs at a time which does not cause additional delay or cost but which would have done so if the contractor had not already been behind schedule . |
| 13 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 14 | By leaning her back against it and pedalling with her feet she could move it forwards inches at a time . |
| 15 | If the light intensity increases , the rate of turning also increases for a time , before falling back to its initial level . |
| 16 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 17 | This will cut farmers ' grain drying costs at a time when margins are under pressure . ’ |
| 18 | The intensity of the enhanced bands also varies in a time dependent fashion , but surprisingly this is slower than the disappearance of the footprint , so that some enhanced products are still evident even after 30 minutes . |
| 19 | Ironically , the terminal 's death knell sounds at a time when Seacombe 's fortunes have taken an upturn . |
| 20 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 21 | No , I always get up an well , most of the time she sleeps to a time plan . |
| 22 | But her symbolic stance emerges at a time when there is considerable disquiet over the imaging of children . |
| 23 | At the time they moved to Carno , Meirion and Tony were still cutting , with scissors , a mere four lays at a time . |
| 24 | Adjust your times so that your ETA at the holding point coincides with a time based on your last acknowledged position report , and flight plan for times for each section of the route . |
| 25 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |
| 26 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |
| 27 | He works for a time as a gardener on the estate of the rich Mrs Mgulu , and later as a construction worker in her house . |
| 28 | Aristotle knows of a time in which the constitution of Massalia had been even more oligarchic than it was in his time ( Pol . |
| 29 | This ritual comes from a time when the apple was recognized as a gift from something greater than ourselves — though by then she was only a minor goddess . |
| 30 | The conventional wisdom of the decade-obsessed art world sees the Basquiat show as a referendum on the 1980s , placing an artist who had been catapulted into stardom by that era 's hype under the closer scrutiny that comes in a time of greater austerity . |