Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A view of the Flight gallery looking back in time , from the HS.125 in the foreground , to the Westland/Hill Pterodactyl and Supermarine S.6B in the background . |
| 3 | POSTSPORT : Focus on an athlete running out of time |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not only does Orlando explore gender issues and sexual politics , in which Swinton is interested , but it also presents a sweep of family history , with which she can identify ; the family line stretching back through time , the ancient portraits in which one can see one 's own features . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |