Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some present-day achievements are motivated by the hurt of being ignored in the past ; they can represent an attempt to go backwards in time to recover early special relationships in the family . |
| 2 | They are , of course , interrelated ; use of computers in calculation , word processing and computer-aided design , for example , can put strains on office space , and as accommodation is one of the least flexible resources , there must be careful consideration and if necessary appropriate investment made ahead of time . |
| 3 | ( 6.9 ) , therefore the time taken to reach a stepping rate f is : So the speed increases linearly with time up to 100 steps 1 , which is attained after 21 ms . |
| 4 | Her mouth worked silently in time with the tune . |
| 5 | It was scheduled to re-open on May 1 but tremendous effort from all the staff has led to the museum opening ahead of time . |
| 6 | These include the wavelet transform , which can give a measure of the fractal qualities of a given sound , and something called the granular synthesis model , which considers sound as consisting of quanta localised both in time and frequency . |
| 7 | ‘ The ground was very fast at York which he does n't like and the rain came just in time for us on Saturday . |
| 8 | At the end of the day the team delivered exactly on time . |
| 9 | ‘ Mamma come just in time . |
| 10 | An individual tachyon whizzing backwards through time is not going to have any discernible effect on the past : it would be only when streams of them were encoded and transmitted to hypothetical ‘ tachyon detectors ’ that the paradoxes would begin . |
| 11 | When this Doppler shift is converted to relative velocity it turns out that the velocity varies sinusoidally with time . |
| 12 | Around them was the silence of the dense conifer wood , a moment of stillness held forever in time while the rest of the world moved on outside . |
| 13 | Can a chimp plan ahead of time , either on its own behalf or on behalf of its fellow ? |
| 14 | The correlation between fertility trends and relative wages and work-force participation works well over time within particular countries . |
| 15 | In traditional parchment/paper document creation standards of information provision and format arose naturally over time . |
| 16 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |
| 17 | For viscoelastic materials such as polymers the sawtooth mode , in which load , extension or strain varies linearly with time up to some preset value is the least useful for the materials scientist . |
| 18 | In all such studies , however ( including this trial ) , the number of patients at risk diminishes appreciably with time so that the confidence of the prediction that there really is a plateau , also diminishes with time . |
| 19 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 20 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |
| 21 | Stories and legends may have offered some sort of introduction to the more distant past , but it may well be necessary to use one of the school designed local history units as a " bridging " unit to work backwards in time , in a series of leaps , in order to bridge the chasm between history within living memory ( which will have been the natural focus for much work at Key Stage 1 ) and distant periods such as the age of Ancient Egyptians or Romans . |
| 22 | Because the driving pressure p s rises exponentially as the bolide descends through the atmosphere , its effective cross-section increases exponentially with time . |
| 23 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 24 | But there is a nervousness about , a fit of the jitters that means the Easter holiday comes just in time . |
| 25 | Where reductivism is forward-looking , retributivism looks backwards in time , to the offence . |
| 26 | We must again resort to a series of small steps , this time arranged sequentially in time . |
| 27 | He is also the epitome of the New Man , and has been known to leave his office to arrive home in time to bath his daughter , Mary-Claire , and read her a story before bed . |
| 28 | Halsey ( 1986 ) suggested that the steady fall in Labour 's percentage share of the vote from 1964 to 1983 was attributable not primarily to people of a given social class voting differently over time , but to a straightforward decline in the working-class population , which affected many parliamentary constituencies : ‘ The dominant class had grown from 18 per cent of the electorate in 1964 to 29 per cent in 1983 while the working-class proportion had dropped from 47 to 31 per cent ’ ( Halsey , 1986 , 88 ) . |
| 29 | She made her way , still seemingly dancing to the tune , the huge crocodile-skin handbag on her arm swaying heavily in time , to the door down to the saloon . |