Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Commonwealth links , though gossamer thin for most of the time , can become emotional ties of steel in times of crisis , drawing us into unexpected military commitments , as occurred in the Falklands Campaign . |
| 2 | The attractions of home-ownership in times when property prices are falling and also when interest rates are high are that much less , and the Conservative government , which had strongly promoted home-ownership was faced with considerable public disquiet . |
| 3 | Consider a firm which initially has a stock of 100 machines , each of which can produce 50 units of output per time period . |
| 4 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 5 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 6 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 7 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 8 | I walked partway along the trail , closing my eyes from time to time , imagining myself blind , unable to see . |
| 9 | The Allied guns behind us sent a few shells rushing over our heads from time to time . |
| 10 | An unfortunate accident in the solvent plant , a fire in the warehouse , a large-scale burglary , the loss of a key client , some bad publicity over a defective product , an unexpected but substantial price increase on raw materials can all present a crisis to a company , and most companies have such crises from time to time . |
| 11 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
| 12 | In the Heinkel , despite the enormous noise , Hess and Edward exchanged a few shouted words from time to time , their faces pressed close together . |
| 13 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 14 | This suggests that a fusion of languages is taking place which can not be explained simply by an appeal to the notion that speakers from time to time animate different personas , some " British " and some " Caribbean " . |
| 15 | She did n't feel him bathe her forehead or moisten her lips from time to time . |
| 16 | The agreement provided for the price of the petrol ‘ to be agreed by the parties from time to time ’ and failing agreement to be settled by arbitration . |
| 17 | Indeed the " United Front " was further restricted by an NAC decision on 16 February " to limit co-operation with the Communist Party to specific objects as agreed upon by the representatives of the two parties from time to time " . |
| 18 | Be that as it may , the judges assumed this duty in 1292 and there are dicta from time to time in the succeeding centuries that it is one they have no power to give up . |
| 19 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 20 | Getting the kids to school on time |
| 21 | Wilson ( 1991 ) argues that in reality most old people can live well and independently with properly targeted inputs of help at times of crisis or illness . |
| 22 | The study assembled evidence on the sources of funds for social science research in Britain during the 1980 's and the patterns of expenditure by subject and type of research , and examined changes in the patterns of funding over time . |
| 23 | Patterns of support over time |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Likely Anglo-American areas of co-operation in time of war could easily extend beyond the competence of Nato . |
| 28 | Sources of information may well be : hearsay ( which can be inaccurate ) ; articles in journals ( which are not usually followed up , making analyses of pay over time impossible ) ; and surveys by international management remuneration consultancies ( which can be expensive and often only contain data from their own members ) . |
| 29 | Figures 3b & 4b shows a plot of these percentage ratios of DNA against time . |
| 30 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |