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

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1 ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’
2 The group hope to leave Britain on February 20 if the necessary visas are received in time .
3 Further attempts to relate the incidence of Crohn 's disease to known genetic variation between populations are unlikely to be productive since differences of incidence between ethnic groups are narrowing with time and migration .
4 Given that cohort size is reduced both by syntactic and semantic context and by incoming sensory information , it is necessary to decide how these two influences are co-ordinated in time .
5 That I could put no name to it made it all the more tantalizing , like a song when only the tune remains and the words are lost by time .
6 Thus , the concept of career is essential to an understanding of the impact of ageing on the experience of long-term disability as it allows consideration of how people 's subjective experiences are shaped over time .
7 Yes , the Government are insisting that the bills are paid on time when the work has been done , and that that should flow through the system from the main contractors to the sub-contractor .
8 Such usage will invariably absorb some of the buffer stock unless planned deliveries are made on time .
9 Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years .
10 These authors considered that the antiplatelet action observed was unrelated to effects on glycaemic control as the two effects were dissociated in time ( Poari et al , 1979 ) .
11 And the framework people use to make sense of their experiences is developed over time and so has strong connections with the past .
12 Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases .
13 The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such .
14 The number of incorporated counts was plotted against time for both mutant ( Eco K ts-1 ) and wild type endonuclease .
15 Committees are beginning to time their reports to correspond with appropriate business , such as legislation or a planned debate and this ensures greater coverage of their report .
16 In the autoshaping procedure , pigeons are confronted from time to time with presentations of an illuminated disc ( a response key ) signalling the delivery of food .
17 Figure 3.10 Sounds are shown visually by sonograms , which illustrate the frequencies of sounds being made through time .
18 A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus .
19 Or where the subject is unknown or irrelevant as in , ‘ the book was printed in 1991 ’ or ‘ the goods were delivered on time ’ .
20 Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral .
21 However , we do need to recognize that the staffing requirements are there , making sure that the assessments are done on time , and that people are discharged from hospital .
22 Intake and despatch is controlled by the operations team who make sure customers orders are scheduled on time .
23 Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans .
24 case of the diagnostic tests this model looks reasonably okay , we have n't got erm significant serial correlation , we have n't breached form , we have reasonably normally distributed residuals , right , test for hetero skilasticity that just a test to see whether the residuals are growing over time , right , hetero skilasticity is where we have non constant , non constant variance of our , of our error term right , and very often you , you find that the variance through the residuals , something like that the residuals will look like that , I think , they 're growing systematically over time , right , these are homo skilastic right , and these are hetero skilastic right , residuals and again we would n't want to have a model of hetero skilastic residuals , right , simply because that violates one of the assumptions on which the blue properties are based .
25 ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village .
26 Compared with Maud she was too tall and thin , and her mouth was too wide , but she had a simple grace which remained in his memory long after her features were blurred by time .
27 Although there were no significant differences in the global left ventricular ejection fractions whether patients were treated early or in the third hour , when the global left ventricular ejection fraction measured in these patients was plotted against time and a regression analysis performed , the delay in treatment was significantly related to the global ejection fraction , i.e. the longer the delay to treatment the lower the global ejection fraction .
28 These themes are dealt with time and time again , but the possibility that they may be irrelevant , or that unique cultural , social or ecological facts are more important , is left open .
29 ( i ) Management must ensure that the site is well organised and materials are delivered on time .
30 Increased productivity is equally the responsibility of management , who must ensure that materials , plant and scaffolding are available and in the right location , adequate instructions are given on time , the work place is prepared and the programme of work for other trades correlated and integrated .
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