Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC issued a statement on Feb. 7 saying that its member states were " shocked and dismayed at the government of Sudan 's continued failure … to co-operate with donors and non-governmental organizations in implementing measures to ensure that emergency supplies reach the needy populations in time " . |
| 2 | I have to leave the clamouring Festival in time to help Mrs Kizza prepare lunch . |
| 3 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |
| 4 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 5 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 6 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 7 | Along one of those paths was the figure of Laura Channing , unable to move from the indeterminate point in time at which her life had first crossed that of Mahoney . |
| 8 | He 'd get to the back door in time for his morning cup of tea and a warm by the kitchen range . |
| 9 | You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . |
| 10 | The great virtue or the part-time holding in times of industrial depression is that it leaves the unemployed with things they can do to help themselves . |
| 11 | The film is not primarily a combat movie : no attempt is made to fully identify the kind of unit the protagonists are attached to , nor is there any attempt to locate the central act in time or place . |
| 12 | At every competition you will see karateka working hard to sweat off the extra weight in time for a re-weigh . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the overall gain in time to progression and length of survival was seen in patients born with and without tumour related symptoms . |
| 14 | The animal with the baton smacked the sleeping animal in time to Midwinter 's staccato pronouncements. from the next room 1 heard a riff of a clarinet and toot of a trombone . |
| 15 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 16 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 17 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 18 | In reality the change of allegiance brought almost total autonomy in return for an annual payment of 500 ducats and the support of the Ragusan fleet in time of war . |
| 19 | At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations . |
| 20 | In November Nizan correctly assessed the situation when he commented : " At the present moment in time , the policies of the fascist government are being thwarted only by the diplomacy of the USSR and the heroic resistance of the Spanish people " . |
| 21 | The travellers escape and manage to warn the Thal party in time to save most of them . |
| 22 | In return for the continued friendship in times of want , and generous acts of hospitality always so readily extended towards the whites by these Indians , they now reap an abundant harvest of every species of villainy and insult . |
| 23 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 24 | In some they played a role of significance as sources of recruits for the regular army in time of war — for example in France , where a system of militia service was established by Louvois in 1688 and revived in 1726 , in Spain , in Piedmont and in England after the passage of the Militia Act of 1757 . |
| 25 | The products , or parts thereof , selected for VE should be those that will provide the best return on the considerable investment in time and money that VE demands . |
| 26 | The products , or parts thereof , selected for VE should be those that will provide the best return on the considerable investment in time and money that VE demands . |
| 27 | In the long run , however , the time wasted in nagging exceeds the initial investment in time and effort involved in training children that parents mean what they say . |
| 28 | Thus do evokes the taking place in time — in the stretch of time in the past or non-past required to realize it — of the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 29 | It was this regime which sent a gift of 300 horses and five four-horse chariots to Alexander the Great ( Diod. xvii.49 ) , and sold off Cyrene 's corn to the Greek world in time of shortage ( Tod 196 ) . |
| 30 | Among the World Corporate Games teams scything their way through the murky water in time to a sadistic drummer ( by far the best job ) were representatives from Touche Ross and Ernst & Young . |