Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those talking optimistically about GATT claim to want the makings of a deal in time for the Tokyo economic summit in June . |
| 2 | Although we 're near a hole in time there 's no way it can escape into our universe . |
| 3 | The girls , who gained international fame as Christina and Caroline in Neighbours , are now recording an album and hope to have one of the tracks cut as a single in time for the pantomime 's launch on December 18 . |
| 4 | There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour . |
| 5 | In addition , individual farmers benefited from a reduction in time and effort in carrying out farm tasks , from greater job satisfaction and greater confidence in their own abilities . |
| 6 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 7 | Dazzle features Simon Wright as hero Sam Galactic , with Cally Hatton as Dazzle , Greg Wright as Mr Speak , son of Spock , and the adventuring crew of the starship Sunburst I. The crew tours the universe and meet aliens like Slimy Swampers , Bolshi 's from the planet Red Star , and , in a flashback in time , meet nasty greasers from the '60s led by Sue Zuki . |
| 8 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 9 | And when words can manage something of this , and manage it in a moment in time , and in that same moment make out of it all the vital signature of a human being — not of an atom , or of a geometrical diagram , or a heap of lenses — but a human being , we call it poetry . |
| 10 | To a Friend in Time of Trouble |
| 11 | In the use with the bare infinitive , the speaker simply wishes to represent the attributing of the infinitive 's event to a support in time as outside the field of possibility ( hence necessarily non-actual ) . |
| 12 | In both projective and reactive uses , however , the infinitive expresses an actualized contingent event and the impression of contingency implies a reference to a position in time when the infinitive 's event was not a reality ( i.e. before its actualization ) , so that the term " reactive " is no more appropriate here than in the canonical uses of the " infinitive of reaction " as a description of the meaning of the to infinitive . |
| 13 | Anyone who suggested that his rise to fame was undeservedly achieved by nepotism and favouritism , would be referred by Beatty to a piece in Time magazine which read , ‘ With facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and the mannerisms of James Dean , he is the latest in the line of hostile , moody , sensitive , self-conscious , bright , defensive , stuttering , self seeking and extremely talented actors who have become myths before they are thirty . ’ |
| 14 | Preceded by to the infinitive is felt to evoke an action referred to a point in time prior to its realization : ( la ) above situates call as being supposed to follow the existence of the obligation to realize this event , denoted by had . |
| 15 | But do you feel somebody wanted you to do that or has somebody just been watching the clock on the revivals and the clock 's ticked round to a point in time now ? |
| 16 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
| 17 | Nobody would claim that an audit is a perfect process : it is a snapshot at a moment in time , with the client often deciding how much light is to be let into the exposure . |
| 18 | It occurred at a moment in time when reading represented the chief leisure activity , apart from sex and drinking , for the British population . |
| 19 | Narrative identification … is being rejected … at a point in time when gays can claim they still have not had it . |
| 20 | A going concern qualification on a company 's financial statements is , in effect , an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company . |
| 21 | A going concern qualification on a company is an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company |
| 22 | This is because the balance sheet is a record of the financial position of the company at a point in time , rather than a forecast of future events . |
| 23 | We saw that we can think about this on a stock basis at a point in time or on a flow basis per period of time . |
| 24 | Using the stock concept , at a point in time an investment project is profitable if the present value of net operating benefits the stream of future operating profits discounted at the interest rate at which firms must borrow funds — exceeds the initial purchase price of the new capital good . |
| 25 | The balance sheet provides a " static picture " of the financial position at a point in time ; the profit and loss account and source and application of funds statement show the flows which have occurred during the accounting period . |
| 26 | Profit is normally seen as a flow over time whereas wealth can be described as a stock at a point in time . |
| 27 | The basic distinction is that income is a flow and therefore is measured per unit of time , whereas wealth is a stock and is measured at a point in time . |
| 28 | Now , however , we can propose that the infinitive event with its internal spatial support ( intra-verbal person ) must be conceived as situated at a point in time beyond that at which its explicit actual support is located . |
| 29 | That is , the support of the finite verb is seen at a point in time from which the realization of the infinitive event by the person of the infinitive is viewed as a subsequent potential . |
| 30 | Gains in accuracy are thus matched by a reduction in time delays in obtaining material on behalf of readers . |