Example sentences of "[prep] time in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Ever closer union ’ is an objective which has been reaffirmed and defined time after time in successive meetings of the European Council . |
| 2 | The problem of time in primary classrooms does not arise solely from external pressures . |
| 3 | The pH does tend to drop over a period of time in bare tanks ( that is tanks without any substrate or plants . |
| 4 | You could be spending a lot of time in serious thought , much to the consternation of those around you . |
| 5 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 6 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 7 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 8 | Finally , in surveying the role of time in ancient Greece , brief mention must be made of the instruments available for its measurement . |
| 9 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |
| 10 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 11 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 12 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 13 | Prolonged periods of time in one position can impair circulation and nerve supply , predisposing to pressure sore development . |
| 14 | These include the relativistic dependence of time on velocity and the strange new features of time in black holes , as well as the ambiguity of direction of time that has emerged in the mathematical description of the interactions of elementary particles . |
| 15 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 16 | The trade-off involves assigning relative values to periods of time in different health states , such as those with and without the side-effects of the treatment and with greater or lesser symptoms from the disease . |
| 17 | Although he often uses occupation and length of time in educational institutions as the axes for his displays and charts , in the text he attempts to encompass a far greater range of differences based on gender , age and expectation . |
| 18 | Being on duty was generally acknowledged by the team to be stressful and disruptive of one 's home life , but the figures indicated that in relation to referral and investigative work at least , the amount of time in active work was not great . |
| 19 | The third method of issue involves the Bank of England taking stock on to its own books and then selling this as a tap stock over a period of time in day-to-day dealings with GEMMs . |
| 20 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 21 | He has a branch office in Gracechurch Street , and spends a considerable amount of time in this country . ’ |
| 22 | A&E staff spend a considerable amount of time in this type of work . |
| 23 | The average length of time in this accommodation was 10 months . |
| 24 | They obtain an expression for the stress as a function of time In this form , and at long-term equilibrium the material resembles one considered by Signiorini ( 1955 ) , whereas if A/2 + B = 0 it is of Mooney form and if A = B = 0 it is Rivlin 's neo-Hookean material . |
| 25 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 26 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 27 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 28 | The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients . |
| 29 | It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse . |
| 30 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |