Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] time [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Strawson himself relies entirely on an intuitive sense of the line between them , but we can see from the history of the social sciences that such intuitions change with time and place .
2 And remember that this is in addition to the calories you are burning away every day during aerobic walking , another 200–400 calories depending upon time and effort .
3 Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries .
4 Obviously , spread sizes even for individual countries vary over time as the market makes different judgements on their creditworthiness , e.g. Brazil 1976 = 2½ per cent ; 1978 = ⅝ per cent ; 1982 = 2¼ per cent .
5 There were variations in the accuracy of these figures according to time and place , but these evened out over fairly large geographical areas and periods of time .
6 Its content changes according to time and place .
7 Cosset ( 1984 ) provides evidence that the risk premium is highly volatile and random , and Cornell ( 1977 ) has shown that the risk premium changes sign over time but has a mean of zero .
8 Time series data can be represented graphically in a line diagram of observations plotted against time as horizontal axis , successive points being joined by straight lines .
9 Mussolini , he reflected , was reputed to have made the trains run on time if nothing else , and he wondered if it might not be a good idea to offer him a job controlling Britain 's network .
10 In addition the costs and benefits of new procedures change over time as they become diffused more widely and in comparison to available alternatives .
11 Poulantzas , like Althusser , believes that this arrangement remains constant and applies to all societies , but he argues that the more specific relations between instances vary with time and place .
12 Success in exporting is largely based on good quality products delivered on time and at the right price .
13 Success in exporting is largely based on good quality products delivered on time and at the right price .
14 When applied to British fertility trends , the correlation ( elasticity ) between fertility and women 's real wages increases over time because of the rise of the real wages of women and their increasing tendency to work .
15 One characteristic difference between phonological and syntactic systems has far-reaching implications for the study of variation : although phonological systems change through time and so can not be absolutely closed and finite , they are more closed and finite in character than syntactic systems .
16 In any public confrontation a quick assessment and early resolution is the order of the day , for on the streets pragmatism always rules and ‘ real polises ’ set out immediately to ‘ fix ’ their adversaries by using deeply imbued constructs relating to time and space .
17 It must have become clear to us by now that a committee of different subject specialists trading off time and contents with each other is an unwieldy and potentially dangerous body .
18 Concentration of crystals increases with time while some sedimentation from the suspension occurs on the floor .
19 To help us to help you , there are a few steps you can take to make sure letters arrive on time and in the condition you sent them .
20 When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day :
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