Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another possible one has to do with time . |
| 2 | ( Ant begins to hum one of the latest hit sounds and starts to move in time to it . |
| 3 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 4 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 5 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 6 | Literary history will be discussed in greater detail below , but , briefly stated , a historical view of literature follows inevitably from the recognition of the fact that the perceptibility of given literary conventions or devices tends to decrease over time . |
| 7 | The market index tends to rise over time , and this will cause the size and hence the variance of price changes to rise over time . |
| 8 | It follows first that there can be no measured change in productivity , irrespective of whether government productivity grows in practice , and secondly that the relative price of government services tends to rise over time . |
| 9 | The futures price tends to rise over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , so again the basis is zero at delivery . |
| 10 | Miss Berggren 's hair appears to move in time of its own accord as James Brown 's Feel Good song plays . |
| 11 | Willey , credited with bringing Manly to pre-eminence before spells with Balmain , Norths , Souths and , most recently , Penrith , hopes to arrive in time for Sunday 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay , against Halifax . |
| 12 | The overall Trident programme continues to progress to time and within budget towards an in-service date of the mid-1990s . |
| 13 | The embryonic inequality and private property in the family continues to develop through time as the head of the family becomes more a patriarchal family chieftain ( the lineage elder of modern anthropology ) controlling the labour of the other members of the lineage . |
| 14 | It will therefore be desirable to define the consequences of a failure to perform on time , for instance by stating that " time for performance is of the essence " , or by defining a term as a " condition " or by expressly providing that " if X fails to perform on time in accordance with this provision , Y shall be entitled to terminate this contract " . |
| 15 | Richardson , the only recognised wicketkeeper in the tour party , was struck by a ball from Allan Donald while batting and will be replaced by Kirsten or Mark Rushmere if he fails to recover in time . |
| 16 | If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday 's trip to Leeds , Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country . |