Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period of time we will then ask local groups to provide this information . |
| 2 | After a period of time , the milk appears to skin ; this is the cream rising to the surface of the vat . |
| 3 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 4 | After a period of time , silence on the part of a third party ( the most likely response ) could estop it from denying that a novation had occurred . |
| 5 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 6 | After a period of time , the the people who have been abducted have in fact been released unharmed . |
| 7 | If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment . |
| 8 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
| 9 | Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ? |
| 10 | I 've got the price of that product up and also get him his reduction after a period of time . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 12 | 1980 No. 1894 ) , has raised the question whether the long-established practice of both the Court of Appeal and this House in relation to the costs of appellate proceedings to make , in an appropriate case , a suspended order under section 18 ( or its predecessors ) to take effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Legal Aid Board ( or formerly the Law Society ) is one which runs counter to the strict requirements of those Regulations . |
| 13 | In place of a unity of time came the notion of discrete temporalities , with a recognition of a historicity proper to each discipline or area of knowledge . |
| 14 | Because of a shortage of time most selectors will have to rely upon a quick and subjective sampling technique . |
| 15 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 16 | .. sounds like discharges of artillery at intervals of a second of time , and a crackling noise , probably due to the impact of fragments in the atmosphere . |
| 17 | The foreign language editions of A Journey Through Time are available at British Tourist Authority offices throughout the world . |
| 18 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |
| 19 | These lead now not to mere eternal recurrence , but , redeemed , to spiritual content and the possibility of a peace beyond time in the search for the word which is both the word of God 's grace , healing , and the ‘ cry ’ of the poet aspiring . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has expressed the view that , unless the outstanding issues are resolved in the near future , it is unlikely that political talks could begin before the election because of a lack of time ; but the Government very much hope that the obstacles will be overcome and that the talks can then begin . |
| 21 | This is most apparent in his views on the development of a community through time . |
| 22 | We put a hell of a lot of time and effort into feeding your crowd detail on the Provos on your side of the water , and trying to get your judges to extradite the bastards back here is harder than getting water out of rock . ’ |
| 23 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 24 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 25 | The people that do this , spend a hell of a lot of time and energy doing it . |
| 26 | Trevor with respect you 've just wasted a hell of a lot of time for you and me have n't you ? |
| 27 | Oh that 's twice , a hell of a lot of time but er |
| 28 | Yes but it 's worse having a hell of a lot of time in there cos that 's what you 're |
| 29 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 30 | Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time . |