Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are pebbles under the feet of Aphrodite 's helpers on the Ludovisi throne ( fig. 83 ) ; and one thinks also of the pebbled floor of the tomb on the Sotades Painter 's cup ( fig. 114 ) , where the ambiguities of time are likewise reminiscent of the Troy . |
| 2 | Like Plato , he believed that the concepts of time and the universe were inseparable , each being essential to the other . |
| 3 | The mood of Mesopotamian civilization reflected this element of force and violence in nature which gave no grounds for believing that the ravages of time could be surmounted by a ritual cult like that of Osiris in Egypt . |
| 4 | In a reply to Openshaw 's strictures Webber ( 1980 ) , however , reiterated the difficulty of working with such vast data sets and with new complex statistical procedures involving dozens of variables , and claimed that the classification was as far advanced as any could be , bearing in mind the constraints of public policy and the realities of time and cost . |
| 5 | At the final stage , sleeping only 4.5 hours a night , problems arose with subjects complaining of falling asleep during the day , and the reductions in time allowed in bed were discontinued . |
| 6 | In TRACE , the links between levels of description are explicit , hard-wired connections , and the links across time are represented by the simultaneous activity of sets of nodes in different time slices . |
| 7 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 8 | But the ravages of time have not been kind . |
| 9 | While the factors of time and the sheer difficulty of analysis partly explain the relative failure of donors to provide a meaningful public assessment of aid programmes , they do not explain the cumulative inadequacy of the results which are available to date . |
| 10 | The choice of 1985/6 , rather than a more recent period , is deliberate , since the comparisons over time made later in this chapter would be precluded by the discontinuity introduced for 1986/7 , through the dismantling of the major Metropolitan Authorities , such as the GLC . |
| 11 | Finally , to return to where we began , you may wonder whether the resources in time , effort , and money which will be involved in treating the child can be justified . |
| 12 | You know that you 've arrived , when the demands of time give way to the enjoyment of the moment . |