Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager produces a whole hospital work-level profile for specific periods of time for a 7-day period . |
| 2 | They should also indicate potential problems , which , if rectified at a sufficiently early stage , will avoid the need for unnecessary expenditure of time and money in seeking to correct the position . |
| 3 | These animals possess the remarkable ability to withstand intense heat and drought for prolonged periods of time . |
| 4 | Studying the body clock for extended periods of time |
| 5 | There are occasional reports in the medical journals of people not sleeping for extended periods of time when suffering from illnesses interfering with brain function . |
| 6 | If there was not a ‘ ceiling ’ to potency level then serial dilution would not be needed to make a remedy , one could simply shake any dilution for different lengths of time as in the example give above . |
| 7 | They are the culminations of a whole life which , as Malcolm Johnson puts it , ‘ sculpted their present problems and concerns ’ ; a life itself built around many different ‘ life-threads ’ — education , work , marriage , children , hobbies , and so on — so that it is best understood , both in psychological and social terms , ‘ as a complex of strands running for different lengths of time throughout a life biography and moulding its individuality ’ . |
| 8 | yes after different periods of time there not all |
| 9 | Instead , after varying lengths of time , they were discharged as being ‘ in remission ’ , i.e. their schizophrenia was thought to be still present , but not actually revealing itself in their behaviour . |
| 10 | The number of consonants in a four-consonant sequence recalled after varying periods of time , using a within subjects design . |
| 11 | The local authority were empowered to do the work themselves by section 10(1) of the Act of 1957 which provided that if the person in control of the house did not comply with a notice to execute work then after specified periods of time ‘ the local authority may themselves do the work required to be done by the notice … |
| 12 | It is obviously important to the managers of such organisations to be able to predict by how much the process will improve after particular lengths of time and numbers of products made . |
| 13 | This inhibits her sexual cycles for varying periods of time depending on the species it 's about two years . |
| 14 | The plug remains in the vagina for varying lengths of time ( up to I 8 h ) . |
| 15 | It must be emphasised that tics , the essential feature of Tourette 's syndrome , are ‘ involuntary , sudden , rapid , recurrent , nonrhythmic , stereotyped , motor movements or vocalizations ’ which , though experienced as irresistible , can be suppressed for varying lengths of time . |
| 16 | Subjects will have been infected for varying lengths of time , which may affect these findings . |
| 17 | Secured and unsecured personal loans — loans are provided for fixed periods of time , often at fixed rates of interest and equal instalment payments . |
| 18 | This also implies a positive relationship between volume and volatility for fixed intervals of time , as argued by Clark ( 1973 ) . |
| 19 | From the very first tiny beginnings , the steady development of life continued , through countless aeons of time , controlled by no other influence than the ruthless laws of the survival of the fittest , and this was the process which was inexorably bringing about the development of the being which was to become man . |
| 20 | In terms of total expenditure of time , instructional and general care and supervisory activities were clearly the two main duties . |
| 21 | This type of eschatological view of time was , of course , not confined to Islam , for we find it also in Zoroastrianism , Judaism , and early and medieval Christianity . |
| 22 | Indeed it is our intention that the necessary repair and improvement work on the halls and associated offices will largely be carried out by our own team with a view to reducing costs and encouraging the use of practical gifts of time and skills . |
| 23 | John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’ |
| 24 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 25 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 26 | Despite many exquisite passages of florid embellishment in a manner familiar from the earlier works , there is much less of their sense of ecstatic suspension of time . |
| 27 | Running through much of the public debate on voluntary organisations , and not entirely absent from the Wolfenden Report , is the confusion between a non-statutory organisation that provides services and can have significant or even total support from state funds , and the notion of voluntary donations of time or money , which are not exclusively given to non-statutory bodies . |
| 28 | Most of the motility studies on irritable bowel syndrome patients have been conducted for brief periods of time in the very distal portions of the viscus . |
| 29 | For the reason given above this might well be totally wrong for large values of time . |
| 30 | b ) Will doctors , particularly surgeons , be away for predictable periods of time ? |