Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Where reductivism is forward-looking , retributivism looks backwards in time , to the offence .
2 Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay .
3 Furthermore , a careful history and physical examination permit a confident diagnosis that stands up over time .
4 Marie Brown is happy to stay with HRT to avoid vaginal dryness , a symptom that rarely goes away with time .
5 Obviously , this occurs mainly in times of war between nations , but the military is also sometimes employed in the maintenance of public order within nations .
6 People often think that evolution is a process that occurs solely through time .
7 Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ?
8 ( 6.9 ) , therefore the time taken to reach a stepping rate f is : So the speed increases linearly with time up to 100 steps 1 , which is attained after 21 ms .
9 Because the driving pressure p s rises exponentially as the bolide descends through the atmosphere , its effective cross-section increases exponentially with time .
10 he believes cumulative stress which builds up over time , should be classified as an industrial injury for which people can claim compensation .
11 ( He turns upstage in time to take over the conversation with CLAUDIUS , GERTRUDE and ROS head downstage . )
12 When this Doppler shift is converted to relative velocity it turns out that the velocity varies sinusoidally with time .
13 Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time .
14 Your crystal grows visibly : it breaks up from time to time and the pieces also grow …
15 Just that I think Susanna wants to spanner to work , her bike 's not here otherwise I 'd have if she gets back in time , fair enough .
16 Watch Nuns on the Run if the guy across the road erm gets back in time .
17 For viscoelastic materials such as polymers the sawtooth mode , in which load , extension or strain varies linearly with time up to some preset value is the least useful for the materials scientist .
18 Still to come : Princes Risborough travels back in time to the summer of nineteen forty .
19 I do n't care what the motive power is as long as it gets there on time and you 're guaranteed a seat .
20 In the film version it makes no difference whether he gets there in time or not .
21 When the particle reaches the point at which the particle-antiparticle pair originally materialized , it is scattered by the gravitational field so that it travels forward in time .
22 It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go .
23 What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately .
24 If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution
25 In all such studies , however ( including this trial ) , the number of patients at risk diminishes appreciably with time so that the confidence of the prediction that there really is a plateau , also diminishes with time .
26 The right politician must be put in charge of the Treasury to bring the economy back to even keel , reduce the trade deficit and force both inflation and interest rates down in time for the next election .
27 It changes inevitably over time and , as change is not uniform , from place to place .
28 insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses .
29 PUB ROCK / Pint-sized rock ‘ n ’ rollers : Jim White steps back in time to sample the fare at his local
30 The location of the mints moves northwards through time ( Data : Rigold 1975 )
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