Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [conj] time " in BNC.

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1 In our ordinary thinking about causation and time there evidently is uncertainty , as is not the case elsewhere .
2 A great deal of money and time had been spent by the 13 political associations in their efforts to win approval from the government-appointed National Electoral Commission ( NEC ) .
3 a great deal of effort and time in enabling the children to write something meaningful
4 What one needs is a way of doing the sum over histories not just for particles but for the whole fabric of space and time as well .
5 Whereas in Kant 's theory , in a sense , there still lingers the common sense conception of space and time as some kind of backcloth against which the positions of phenomenal objects can be uniquely charted and distinguished from each other , Leibniz regarded space and time as properties of entities .
6 The flow as a whole is then rather different from flows typically indicated by the name turbulent , but the randomness in space and time of the occurrence of the thermals makes the name still applicable on the point of view of Section 19.1 .
7 Meanwhile , the young stylist must find her long lost sister before her wedding on Saturday and time is running out .
8 Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there .
9 So , because it did n't ‘ take advantage of customers when times were good ’ , it now has the long-term advantage of customer loyalty .
10 The personal pronouns , according to Lyons , form part of ‘ the ‘ deictic co-ordinates ’ of the typical situation of utterance ’ ; that is , they help to define ( along with such adverbs of place and time as here , there , now , then ) the spatio-temporal location of the act of communication .
11 It is the behaviour of E or G as a function of frequency or time , or more usually of temperature that constitutes the relaxation experiment .
12 FIG. 3 Spectrograms showing the differential number flux ( in cm r-2 s r-1 sr -1 eV r-1 ) of precipitating electrons ( top ) and ions ( bottom ) as a function of energy and time , as observed by DMSP-F10 during the pass described in Fig.2 .
13 In the same way , we know that the scales of size and time extend in both directions far outside the realm of what we can visualize .
14 but leaves us with a sense of the characters inhabiting a kind of vacuum or time warp .
15 A friend can attempt to recall to your mind some utterance which you both experienced by a variety of place and time tags :
16 When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry or the district judge aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge ( post , p. 92D–E ) .
17 When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or the district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge .
18 When there is a daily or seasonal pattern in demand , peak load pricing reflects the different short-run marginal costs of supplying different customers at different times of day or times of year .
19 I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents .
20 3 Metaphors of space and time
21 It said customers should claim compensation for expenses and time spent complaining .
22 His physical departure made possible the coming of the Spirit as Paraclete and there would be no barriers of space and time to prevent disciples being in intimate contact with him .
23 Speech is normally used in face to face interaction whereas writing is used across barriers of space and time .
24 No more notes , he wrote , no more queries , no more space in the work of X and time in the work of Y , no more symbolism , no more allegory , no more influence of X and legacy of Y , no more background and no more foreground , no more social this and political that , no more Heidegger and no more Heisenberg , no more still life and no more portraiture , no more collage and no more frottage , no more lines and no more surfaces , no more genius and no more talent , no more creation and no more mechanical reproduction , no more African masks and no more Cycladic figures , no more clowns and no more nudes , no more museums , no more galleries , no more group shows , no more one-man shows , no more public commissions , no more prizes , no more shit and no more vomit .
25 The paper will deal with some distinguishing features only because of the obvious limitations of space and time .
26 For me , the length of copy is largely determined by the complexity of the message to be communicated — as well , of course , as by the limitations of space or time .
27 Essay on the Influence of Place and Time in Matters of Legislation and Indirect Legislation , ed C F Bahmueller and H Wieting ;
28 ‘ Aura ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , pp. 250–1 ) writes , is ‘ a strange weave of space and time ’ .
29 The width of the spotlight 's beam is analogous to the narrow range of electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes can see , or to the narrow range of sizes or times , close to our own size and longevity , that we can imagine .
30 This region is known as the Realm of Chaos ; a black zone of unreality where time and space have no meaning .
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