Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [conj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |
| 2 | The weak anthropic principle states that in a universe that is large or infinite in space and/or time , the conditions necessary for the development of intelligent life will be met only in certain regions that are limited in space and time . |
| 3 | History sometimes exhibits weird symmetries between events distant from one another in place and time . |
| 4 | But on clean faxes , using typefaces such as Courier or Times Roman , its ‘ hit ’ rate was pretty good . |
| 5 | Minor errors , such as dates or times or places will not be held against the journalist if the gist of the allegation is justified . |
| 6 | A system of assessing ‘ tolerable ’ and ‘ desirable ’ standards at offices is being used based on 13 different factors such as accuracy and time for applications to be processed . |
| 7 | The realistic novelist 's world is a roomy one , large in space and time . |
| 8 | Neither of these possibilities was compatible with the prediction of the steady state theory that the density of radio sources should be constant in space and time . |
| 9 | Assessment is costly in manpower and time , and much government work is difficult to measure : consultancy , inspection , and review activities , for example , pose special problems , while as Beeton ( 1987 , p. 78 ) observes , ‘ by 1986 no department had begun to measure performance of its policy makers , finding the quality and effectiveness of advice too difficult to quantify ’ . |
| 10 | The low patchiness of fruit associated with the richer ‘ fruit-floras ’ in America has resulted in the evolution of more diverse communities of frugivores with reduced dietary overlap , relatively small body size and sedentary ranging patterns , whereas in Asia , where fruit seems to be rarer in space and time , with fewer species , there are fewer frugivores with broadly overlapping diets ( e.g. terrestrial and brachiating primates ) , larger body size and more mobile ranging patterns . |
| 11 | Archbishop William Temple when headmaster of Repton had a complete mental recall of Bradshaw and would set as an imposition for an errant boy the best way of travelling from Great Yarmouth to Exeter or Penrith to Ipswich without touching London , complete with changes and times . |
| 12 | Most localities with nationalized factories felt the impact of hardening government policies in the 1980s , but effects were selective in space and time as different public corporations received political attention at different dates . |
| 13 | Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 14 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 15 | On this basis , knowledge of God could only be established if either God himself were immediately accessible to our awareness , or ‘ God ’ were a category demonstrably necessary , like those of space and time , to the ordering and shaping of our understanding . |
| 16 | ‘ It is by far the most common cause of asthma in Britain , the allergy that kills 2,000 people a year , incapacitates hundreds of thousands and costs £450 million a year in NHS prescriptions and billions in hospitalisation and time off work . |
| 17 | Still , some feminists believe that the article , just by raising the question , could be as devastating to feminists as Time 's infamous 1969 ‘ Is God Dead ? ’ cover story was to the clergy . |
| 18 | In a field that is patchy in space and time , be it ever so small , we may expect that the populations of a species such as white clover will , at any time , reflect selective forces from its past . |