Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we had at Maastricht was old hat ; it was living in a time warp . |
| 2 | It 's like living on a time bomb ! |
| 3 | ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’ |
| 4 | OUTRAGED residents living in the shadow of ICI 's Lostock plant yesterday claimed they were ‘ living on a time bomb . ’ |
| 5 | b ) Time scale : different forecasting methods will have different value according to the time scale for which they are being applied . |
| 6 | A man who , according to the time traveller , had died thousands of years ago . |
| 7 | Three and half hours , but looking at the time log , and it 'll say I was on there for an hour actually speaking on the phone . |
| 8 | Looking at the time lag between the filing of a claim and final disposition is in any event a crude measure . |
| 9 | James Bright ( 1958 ) , writing at the time Blauner was conducting the bulk of his research , reached a radically different conclusion to Blauner , finding that ’ … automation had reduced the skill requirements of the operating work force , and occasionally of the entire factory force ’ ( Bright 1958 , 8 ) , and a more recent study by Nichols and Armstrong ( 1976 ) of a chemical factory in Britain shows just how much routine unskilled labouring work such continuous-process factories still generate . |
| 10 | Many experts in the auction rooms make it their business to hang out with aristos waiting for the time Uncle Marmaduke 's Van Dyck has to bite the dust , so they are privy to the ‘ who 's just acquired a new mistress whose florist is Cartier ’ chatter . |
| 11 | Such protection already exists in Britain , where royalties are still flooding in every time Beatles ' classics are played in clubs or pubs . |
| 12 | Entering one of the 104 spacious suites is like stepping into a time warp . |
| 13 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 14 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 15 | Copies ordered at a later date may cost £5.00 depending upon the time lapse between the registration of death and the date of the order . |
| 16 | Where liability for negligence is excluded by a notice , the reasonableness of the exclusion depends on whether it would be fair and reasonable to allow reliance on the notice having regard to the circumstances existing at the time liability arose , or would have arisen . |
| 17 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 18 | Provided that the party relying on a time bar clause can establish a need for such a clause — which will be relatively easy in a commercial contract — and provided that the period stipulated is not unreasonable , such a clause will probably be enforceable under the Act . |
| 19 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |
| 20 | Suppose we have quarterly figures y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , y 4 , y 5 , Then the first 4-quarter moving average will be corresponding to a time point midway between the second and third quarters , and the second will be corresponding to a time midway between the third and fourth quarters . |
| 21 | However , we often require smoothed values corresponding to the time points of the original observations yet have no choice but to use 12-month or 4-quarter averages to eliminate seasonal variation . |
| 22 | Shigeru Tokinoya , who was in charge of textbook screening at the time Professor Ienaga 's book was banned , said : ‘ All of our corrections should have been upheld … |
| 23 | I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead . |
| 24 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 25 | When Maddren was appointed manager , he sent for Pallister , who was working as a time clerk and playing non-League football . |
| 26 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |