Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from a questionnaire sent to teachers in the project 's associated schools are then used in a discussion of practical issues relating to the adequacy of resources of time and staffing needed to develop and operate a graduated test scheme . |
| 2 | Like many voluntary organizations in the 1980s , the CMHTs scrabbled around , often at great expense in terms of time and frustration , to stitch together small pockets of resource — often on a short-term basis . |
| 3 | So important , in fact , that such a cloud would have had a braking effect on the Sun 's spin over aeons of time . |
| 4 | The court tends to adopt a relatively liberal attitude towards extensions of time for commencing arbitration ( Patel v Peel Developments ( South ) [ 1992 ] 30 EG 88 ) . |
| 5 | Is that selling er , selling in terms of time . |
| 6 | Other barriers to implementing open systems include the initial cost of the move in terms of time and money ; re-training ; and the need for business re-engineering . |
| 7 | But the sharp and painful reactions we experience in conflict sometimes do have a definite link with experiences of time past . |
| 8 | With regard to the gradual exploration of historical time , reading not only helps to develop the concept of periods of time and of progression ( if not progress ) , but it also ( through the historical novel ) enables the reader to ‘ feel what it was like ’ . |
| 9 | Nevertheless a strong archaic effect is produced , by inversion of nouns and adjectives , careful selection of adverbs of time like ‘ yet ’ and ‘ seldom ’ , and other less obvious linguistic features . |
| 10 | Chafe ( 1976 : 51 ) suggests that the function of topic is to specify some kind of framework , for instance in terms of time , location , or individual reference , within which the main statement applies and that ‘ real ’ topics ( in topic-prominent languages ) are not so much ‘ what the sentence is about ’ as ‘ the frame within which the sentence holds ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Dog ’ remains dog through centuries of time and cultural change . |
| 12 | Here was Dennis Potter , by critical consent the best pure television writer we have , directing his first ever film : as near as dammit , total artistic control under conditions of time and budget that were extraordinarily generous ; the film-maker 's dream . |
| 13 | Not only will the advent of records of achievement and GCSE together make considerable demands in this respect in terms of time , it will also require teachers to engage in in-service activities for a very wide range of different assessment procedures . |
| 14 | Thus , the problems just considered may soon arise again — namely , how much more care in terms of time , resources , and energy is called for . |
| 15 | Is it actually feasible to reduce social matter to components of time and space ? |
| 16 | For example , a further group of authorities indicated that although nominal responsibility had been allocated , involvement in terms of time allocated to training was very low . |
| 17 | Indeed she argues that support given to kin was often at considerable cost to the giver in terms of time , energy and even money . |