Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 2 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 3 | To see the very latest in fitted bedroom designs , built in the time honoured tradition of craftsmen , send today for your FREE 72 page Strachan brochure . |
| 4 | Evidently , in response to a suitable input triggering pulse , a monostable multivibrator creates a rectangular output pulse of amplitude and duration related to the time constant RC . |
| 5 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 6 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 7 | An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it . |
| 8 | The old slums in Wallace Street have gone now , replaced nearby by a small , neat council estate of flats and maisonettes ; across the main road there 's a sixties estate of dour concrete so riddled with damp and concrete corrosion that it may be demolished by the time this book is published . |
| 9 | There are some , like erm , oak trees live five or six hundred years if they 're lucky , pines can live for a thousand years , giant tortoises for two hundred , well these are quite impressive figures , but let's face it it 's not very long , erm , compared with the time that evolution has been at it . |
| 10 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 11 | On September 17 Izvestiya reported that the situation had " normalized " , but it became clear later that the dangers had not been fully appreciated at the time due to a lack of sophisticated monitoring equipment . |
| 12 | A spare car was in Chamonix and Emerson was the one who went to fetch it , so that he was exhausted by the time free practice began on Thursday afternoon . |
| 13 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 14 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 15 | Particular problems are centred around the time available for consultations and the workings of the appointment system . |
| 16 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 17 | Try to decide what are the essential aspects to be covered in the time available . |
| 18 | An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting . |
| 19 | London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers . |
| 20 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 21 | In all , 838 post-1976 imprints were identified , and in 814 instances ( 97% ) the method of acquisition was determined ; in the remaining cases , which principally concerned newspapers and serials — types of publication which are stamped in a different way from monographs — the method of acquisition could not be established in the time available . |
| 22 | This cycle of events continually repeats to create an essentially rectangular or square-wave output signal , the frequency of which is controlled by the time constant RC . |