Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the Royal British Legion and Sefton Borough Council officers worked together to replace the plaque and the names of 120 men in time for Remembrance Sunday . |
| 2 | Some of these shifts in time perception are due to changes in metabolic rate produced by fever and drugs , but the mind always plays a part . |
| 3 | This restriction of the kernel function K1 is discussed by Volterra ( 1931 ) and shown to be a requirement of the theory of hereditary phenomena , when the phenomenon always follows the same course as it passes successively through the same conditions , whatever may be the relative position of these conditions in time . |
| 4 | ‘ He does n't consider his captions a sacrosanct collection of frozen moments in time , ’ Ms Calder adds , ‘ and anyway only really changes the ones that have a dated feel about them . |
| 5 | They record dues owed by peasants to landlords ; and they are snapshots of particular points in time . |
| 6 | TDC 's managers have tried to establish good relations with universities so that they hear about promising developments in time to support them with cash . |
| 7 | These , ’ he gestured to the Twins , ‘ are the same person really , only they 're going in different directions in time and just stopping to say hello to themselves . |
| 8 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , it 's hoped the organisers can at least be persuaded to divert flight paths away from local villages in time for the next tattoo . |
| 10 | I turn to old favourites in time of stress . |
| 11 | I 'll get used to these things in time . ’ |
| 12 | Eavesdropping on process plant could alert engineers to developing problems in time to prevent a serious accident , according to the acoustic diagnostics team at AEA Technology . |
| 13 | Sociologists emphasise that what is ‘ common sense ’ or ‘ natural ’ may be by no means universal or eternal , but is frequently relative to particular societies or to particular periods in time . |
| 14 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 15 | What must be recognized is that in approaching different collections , different users at different periods in time will place varying requirements on a scheme , both in terms of the subjects that should be included and also in terms of the relationships that need to be shown . |
| 16 | But this does not help much in understanding what marriage meant to men and to women in different social classes at different points in time and what in their minds justified separation . |
| 17 | In complex market economies , where the decision to produce and the decision to consume are taken by different people at different points in time , it is important for manufacturers to have some idea of the likely demand for products . |
| 18 | In addition to employing specific elicitation procedures , some tests seek to quantify the data obtained so that numerical comparisons can be made between individuals and with respect to the same individual at different points in time . |
| 19 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 20 | This strategy has at different points in time involved the abolition of certain benefits , a reduction in the numbers eligible to those that remain , the curtailment of the rate of increase in the value of benefits and real cuts in their financial worth . |
| 21 | It is fairly unproblematic to predict the number of older people in the population at future points in time . |
| 22 | It seems unlikely that these differences are the result of ageing ; rather they probably illustrate the effect of historical time and the differing general , social and cultural attitudes towards the cause of health and illness at varying points in time in Britain . |
| 23 | As finch ( 1989 ) describes , it is commonly asserted that this century has seen the demise of the extended family structure which is commonly assumed to have been the norm at previous points in time . |
| 24 | I will examine this problem by focusing on my own research at three points in time , the 1950s the 1970s and the 1980s . |
| 25 | Each of these data sets has complex features which result from the repeated sampling of the original respondents at various points in time . |
| 26 | Gore ( 1978 ) studied the impact of unemployment at five points in time leading up to and following the shutdown of two companies . |
| 27 | No explanation which rests upon the contingent behaviour or strategic intentions of particular individuals in particular places at given points in time can be counted as ‘ scientific ’ in Althusser 's schema . |
| 28 | Freud shares what can be seen as the main element in the sociological imagination , that is , to see what is regarded as commonplace action in a particular society , at particular points in time , as being itself in need of some explanation . |
| 29 | Figure 4.1 shows the distribution of employment statuses at two points in time . |
| 30 | The prevalence of use of peptic ulcer drugs in the Danish population is described at two points in time using registrations of applications for reimbursement . |