Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think that such a duty is imposed by law ; and on consideration of the Statute of Elizabeth , l and of the cases which have been decided on this subject , we are all of the opinion that a party can not maintain an action for compensation for loss of time in attending a trial as a witness . |
| 2 | We think , on principle , that an action does not lie for a compensation to a witness for loss of time in attendance under a subpoena . |
| 3 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 4 | The left hand side is iħ times the rate of change with time of a state vector . |
| 5 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 6 | This impression of coincidence in time between the action of perceiving and the event perceived is common to all the various verbs of perception : ( 31 ) " Look out for those movers ! " |
| 7 | This sequential representation , on the other hand , does not characterize the verbs of perception in their basic perceptual sense , where the relation is rather one of coincidence in time between the perceiving and the phenomenon being perceived . |
| 8 | As for the bare infinitive , a significant generalization concerning its meaning has been arrived at — the notion of coincidence in time between the infinitive and the verb to which it is incident , with the latter being inconceivable as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 9 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 10 | After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number . |
| 11 | Its membership and its political weight varied of course from time to time with the personality of the monarch and with changing circumstances . |
| 12 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 13 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |
| 14 | Nevertheless a strong archaic effect is produced , by inversion of nouns and adjectives , careful selection of adverbs of time like ‘ yet ’ and ‘ seldom ’ , and other less obvious linguistic features . |
| 15 | Theo had been sending him sums of money from time to time through their father , keeping his name out of the transaction . |
| 16 | Could Australia get out of recession in time for the next general election ? |
| 17 | A trial run was carried out but it was soon realized the volume of traffic in the town of Paisley would prevent any large movement of aircraft in time for the carrier to meet its scheduled departure . |
| 18 | It is important to address an audience directly , using eye-contact , speaking to all sections of the room , and changing speech rhythms and levels to maintain attention , as well as adding touches of lightness from time to time , in the form of humour . |
| 19 | The depredations of the crown of thorns ( together with those of hurricanes ) may promote diversity , by forcing areas of reef from time to time to begin all over again . |
| 20 | Children 's bikes are also available , but please specify age of child at time of booking as these are subject to availability . |
| 21 | How the materials of buildings change is examined in On Weathering : The Life of Buildings in Time by Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow with examples drawn from Alberti to Le Corbusier ( £26.95 ) . |
| 22 | Special deposits are deposits of banks from time to time required by the Bank of England to be lodged in addition to normal reserve requirements . |
| 23 | And that 's difficult , because you need a bit of lead in time to actually think it all through . |
| 24 | He could receive visitors and was allowed out of jail from time to time , even occasionally to preach in London . |
| 25 | I suffer quite badly from lack of confidence from time to time , but then everybody does . |
| 26 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 27 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 28 | There has been little empirical work done on the amount of substitution through time amongst the various resources used by the hospital sector . |
| 29 | Pioneer attempts to relate temporal diversity changes to plate tectonics were undertaken by Valentine & Moores ( 1972 ) and Flessa & Imbrie ( 1973 ) , while the relationship of changing patterns of endemism through time in relation to plate movements was outlined by Hallam ( 1974 ) . |
| 30 | Although there was only fragmentary discussion of the matter at the Tenth Session , the United Kingdom view prevailed ; an example perhaps of the effect of shortage of time on the content of international conventions . |