Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a given time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 2 | In particular , as outlined below , one area of potential dissension and difficulty in the modern small private company is the very fact that some of the relevant legal rules and remedies are based on being able to distinguish the capacity in which a particular individual may be acting at a given time . |
| 3 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 4 | Nowadays his case had to be heard within a given time . |
| 5 | These considerations lead lenders to charge different rates for the same amount loaned for a given time period to , say , the government , a commercial company and a private individual . |
| 6 | How many barnacles ( or mussels ) are eaten in a given time ? |
| 7 | For Offline ‘ stores ’ , two methods can be used to generate an offline workload : either by specifying packages to be offlined using option 9.1.0 , or by using the Storeman facility , whereby a range of modules which have not been accessed in a given time period can be offlined . |
| 8 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 9 | Kessel ( 1965 ) has suggested a limit to the amount of tablets that could be dispensed at a given time , and in some areas chemist shop assistants are instructed to refer customers to senior staff when large amounts of tablets are being requested . |
| 10 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 11 | For example , as speed increases , distance travelled in a given time increases ; as speed increases , time to travel a given distance decreases . |