Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 2 | Frieda describes the ‘ Conversion Point ’ as that moment in time when passes from wet to dry . |
| 3 | It is a dilemma : if we strive to be ever more efficient for this moment in time , does that make us more efficient for the future ? |
| 4 | Erm , I think I 'll leave it at that for this moment in time and er if I may speak at at the end . |
| 5 | Families of those immigrants who came after that point in time were classed as illegal until the announcement of the new policy . |
| 6 | Specify the exact nature of each task in time order |
| 7 | Members of the Royal British Legion and Sefton Borough Council officers worked together to replace the plaque and the names of 120 men in time for Remembrance Sunday . |
| 8 | The starting-point of that digression in time and place was that of leased prisons and the problems they increasingly raised for a socially responsible legislature . |
| 9 | It enacts in its form a faith that the experience of broken suffering in time is in reality the choreography and notation for the dance and music of love and Rolle advises his disciple that meditation on this reality will draw up her heart " so hert mai loke intil heven " ( 69.261 – 2 ) . |
| 10 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 11 | Quite the reverse , these become the trusted friends that truly understand and can be of real help in time of trouble . |
| 12 | The surplus was also the product of parliamentary taxation in time of peace . |
| 13 | Some of these shifts in time perception are due to changes in metabolic rate produced by fever and drugs , but the mind always plays a part . |
| 14 | This restriction of the kernel function K1 is discussed by Volterra ( 1931 ) and shown to be a requirement of the theory of hereditary phenomena , when the phenomenon always follows the same course as it passes successively through the same conditions , whatever may be the relative position of these conditions in time . |
| 15 | ‘ He does n't consider his captions a sacrosanct collection of frozen moments in time , ’ Ms Calder adds , ‘ and anyway only really changes the ones that have a dated feel about them . |
| 16 | In place of a sandy , open heath , supporting a rough pasture , there would be a dozen miles of flowering hawthorn in time , enclosing small fields that were being assiduously marled to produce corn crops . |
| 17 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 18 | They record dues owed by peasants to landlords ; and they are snapshots of particular points in time . |
| 19 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 20 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 21 | TDC 's managers have tried to establish good relations with universities so that they hear about promising developments in time to support them with cash . |
| 22 | From that moment in time they will have the opportunity to express their views to Councillors , to myself , to my staff . |
| 23 | The Declaration undoubtedly broke new constitutional ground when it stated that " the raising or keeping of a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace unless it be with the consent of Parliament is against the law " ; the Militia Acts of 1661 and 1662 had invested control of the armed forces in the hands of the monarch alone with no suggestion that Parliamentary consent was needed to maintain an army in peace time . |
| 24 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 25 | These , ’ he gestured to the Twins , ‘ are the same person really , only they 're going in different directions in time and just stopping to say hello to themselves . |
| 26 | This type of relief is of great benefit to the retiring director upon the disposal of his shares in the company , providing he has kept a sufficient percentage holding of shares and has been a full-time working director until this point in time . |
| 27 | I am aware of the difficult times that other theatre companies who actually face in this moment in time and I am very grateful when I and I 've always been grateful to the Harlow Council for the funding of the Council has given to the theatre , has given to the theatre over the years . |
| 28 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 29 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 30 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |