Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In any case , the proper limits of time for the question should not be exceeded . |
| 4 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 5 | Though after eleven years the differences are not very large , the detailed profiles over time may well be so . |
| 6 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 7 | The Maya pictured the divisions of time as burdens carried by a hierarchy of divine bearers who personified the respective numbers by which the different periods of time — days , months , years , etc. — were distinguished . |
| 8 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 9 | From the vast reaches of time , the Serpent has been a potent symbol , reflecting as many aspects and occult meanings as the Garden of Eden itself , with which it was emblematically associated . |
| 10 | Gosse was perplexed at the vast tracts of time required by geologists to account for the deposition of all the strata . |
| 11 | The content changes with time , but there are some core questions , ‘ so we can track trends , ’ says Gerry Boyle , Communications Manager at Greenock . |
| 12 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 13 | In the purply warm twilight the tiny traces of time did n't show , he looked exactly as always . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ . |
| 16 | We noted in Chapter 3 that the large amounts of time allocated to language and mathematics were sometimes the least efficiently used . |
| 17 | For several seconds , his brain refused to function , resisting all his efforts to impose the reassuring certainties of time and place . |
| 18 | An animal 's pace of life is known as its rate of physiological time to distinguish it from the natural rhythms of time which all animals share . |
| 19 | Poetry 's ability to cast things in a kind of temporary order , to defy the destabilising effects of time , if only for a moment , will be a recurrent theme of this chapter . |
| 20 | Some of these relate to the inevitable limits on time and space , but a more important limitation is that of the fossils themselves . |
| 21 | Nor is there any real evolution , only the inevitable modifications of time , in his personal feelings , the loyal determined affection for his drab wife Mana , his jealous longing for Lady Barbara Wellesley and his brief encounter with Mane de Graçay during his escape from France . |
| 22 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 23 | They tell us what our world was like during the long periods of time before recorded history , and the collection and investigation of fossils is therefore of importance to anyone interested in our prehistory . |
| 24 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 25 | The main disadvantage of the method lies in the long periods of time required to reach equilibrium . |
| 26 | The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time . |
| 27 | There is indeed something godlike about carbon , its omni-presence in all things living and dead , the grand cycles of time that move it in its vehicular form carbon dioxide between land , sea and air , the fertility it provides and its release by fire . |
| 28 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 29 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 30 | " From below " , provincial churchmen in the various kingdoms from time to time demanded authoritative rulings , arbitration , and leadership , to maintain their churches ' own new-won institutional integrity , or to fight more particular battles involving the interests of ecclesiastical individuals or groups ; and lay persons sought the pope 's protection . |