Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results should be treated with a little caution , as the group surveyed is not statistically representative of the total population of practitioners throughout the country , and the costs estimated may not be based on detailed analyses of time and expenses . |
| 2 | Towards the end of the research most of the children referred had been in care for shorter periods of time and were still in more or less meaningful contact with members of their natural families . |
| 3 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 4 | Therefore there is a need to balance the demands of in-service training for effective developments with restricted sources of time and money and this can cause difficulties . |
| 5 | It is so efficient and saves vast amounts of time and money . |
| 6 | Questions about possible friction between the disparate corporate cultures of Time and Warner have been current ever since the merger . |
| 7 | For several seconds , his brain refused to function , resisting all his efforts to impose the reassuring certainties of time and place . |
| 8 | Marek Kohn looks at TV 's brief histories of time and space , and watches God return to science |
| 9 | It is extremely important at this stage to take unlimited amounts of time and trouble , as the success of your design will stand or fall by the way in which it is finished . |
| 10 | This process involves large amounts of time and constant discussion with those involved lower down the line who will actually execute the strategies on which the whole picture relies . |
| 11 | We postulate that the alternation of homogeneous gabbro and graded layers is produced by a magma chamber that remains below the critical concentration for substantial periods of time and generates a steady accumulation of crystals on the floor in the cotectic proportions . |
| 12 | He said it was not usual for patients to be left alone for long periods of time and organisation on the ward involved was usually very good . |
| 13 | But with reasonable adjustments of time and numbers , I propose that this arrangement could be considered . |
| 14 | The perfectionist is a person who has problems setting priorities , and often ends up spending equal amounts of time and effort on tasks irrespective of their importance . |
| 15 | Any Linguistics-based study , it was urged , was conceptually difficult , and made heavy demands of time and energy . |
| 16 | Travel back into those mists of time and you will meet many who have gone before and who also may have experienced these sudden sea frets , for that is what these mists are . |
| 17 | Experimental observations of time and temperature effects in polymers may be exemplified by the much studied polymer polystyrene ( an amorphous polymer ) under shear deformation at low strain . |
| 18 | Indeed it is our intention that the necessary repair and improvement work on the halls and associated offices will largely be carried out by our own team with a view to reducing costs and encouraging the use of practical gifts of time and skills . |
| 19 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 20 | SUMMARY : The thermal histories of a Palaeozoic and a Tertiary coal have been investigated by laboratory simulation experiments in which a suite of samples , with natural maturities ranging from 0.4–3.0% vitrinite reflectance ( VR ) , were heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 21 | This paper describes an alternative approach whereby the thermal histories of coals from the Palaeozoic and from the Tertiary are deduced from simulation experiments in which samples with different natural maturities are heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 22 | It is obviously important to the managers of such organisations to be able to predict by how much the process will improve after particular lengths of time and numbers of products made . |
| 23 | He can be met , really met , only in the encounter in which we finite creatures of time and history are confronted by the One who is infinite and eternal , and who remains infinite and eternal and ‘ wholly Other ’ than ourselves in that meeting . |
| 24 | At the same time , the formalism is broken up ( particularly in the last and longest sentence ) by elements which will ease transition to a lighter tone of comedy : for example , the bantering irony signalled by the parenthesis of " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ( directed against a general human frailty , partiality of parents for their offspring , rather than against the more repellent form that partiality takes in Mr Dombey ) ; also , the fanciful extensions of the well-worn personifications of Time and Care , again expressed through parenthetical elaboration of the syntax . |
| 25 | Thus , conflict reflects workers ' coming to terms with the rational procedures of employment , and learning to fight back using employers ' own categories of time and money . |
| 26 | The twin city of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork , of which all the other cities of time and space are , as it were , mere reflections , has stood many assaults in its long and crowded history and has always risen to flourish again . |
| 27 | On land , many areas of field natural history could draw upon the enthusiasm of bird-watchers and other amateurs prepared to spend significant amounts of time and money on the study of Nature . |