Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the inclusion of so many considerations , it is not surprising that standards may be amended from time to time : for example , standards may be made more stringent if new scientific research reveals a lower threshold of effect than was previously believed to exist . |
| 2 | The contents of this handbook may be amended from time to time . |
| 3 | This should be undertaken from time to time with assistance in recruiting , training expansion of groups and also with Liturgical experiences . |
| 4 | Although there are important differences between the various theories , the great majority of researchers assert that ‘ aggression ’ ( however defined ; see below for a discussion on definitions ) is an integral part of human nature ; and that aggressive impulses and behaviour have somehow to be directed and controlled for human relations to be sustained over time in a social setting . |
| 5 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 6 | However , the rest of the work will not be completed in time for the season , which will make life running a heavily-booked programme of events difficult . |
| 7 | The implementation of measures 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 depend upon action by both the profession and the Government , but we believe the necessary steps can be completed in time for implementation in April 1993 . |
| 8 | John Hart , Assistant Director ( Curriculum ) comments : ‘ Aspects of two major areas of review will be completed in time for the next Catalogue . |
| 9 | There is some doubt as to whether the processes of investigation and legislation will be completed in time for the 1995 revaluation . |
| 10 | A year-long project to update the library at Darlington College of Technology should be completed in time for the new school year in September . |
| 11 | The draftsman should either designate in the lease the place where the advertisement may be maintained , or grant the tenant a right to maintain an advertisement in such place as may be designated from time to time by the landlord or his surveyor . |
| 12 | Circumstances in which overtime may be used should be identified , together with a list of staff who have agreed to be approached in time of need . |
| 13 | The professor will be a member ex officio of the committee , and will be expected from time to time to hold offices such as that of Chairman of the Committee or Director of Graduate Studies , and in due course to assume the duties of professor in charge of the Institute , which are customarily rotated by arrangement . |
| 14 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 15 | Nicholas , who is living with his family in a tiny flat , hopes the damage will be repaired in time for Christmas . |
| 16 | His Opel Manta had been heavily damaged during the Burmah Rally and could n't be repaired in time for the Mourne Stages . |
| 17 | We have probably often been guilty of viewing censorship as something that must be imposed from time to time . |
| 18 | Perhaps the decision to accept covered pitches in the Championship in 1981 will be seen in time as the inevitable pre-cursor to the preference now for four-day games . |
| 19 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 20 | Moreover , whatever your age , circumstances and financial resources , taking stock is something which must be done from time to time — it is the first step in making decisions . |
| 21 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 22 | The doctrine of precedent restrains tribunals and the trial judges in the county courts and in the High Court from digressing into frolics of legal innovation , but even the trial judge will be presented from time to time with issues upon which there are no binding precedents . |
| 23 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 24 | You will probably be visited from time to time , and in some areas you will get practical help such as toy kits , toy libraries , first aid kits and safety equipment on loan . |
| 25 | He began by securing from Parliament a fifteenth and tenth , combined with a subsidy , the first to be levied in time of peace . |
| 26 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 27 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 28 | the standard format for depicting the Member who has the floor should be a head and shoulder shot , not a close-up ; ( d wide-angle shots of the Chamber may be used from time to time ; |
| 29 | Additionally , buckwheat , bamboo shoots , millet , sago and tapioca can be used from time to time , but these are not usually very popular . |
| 30 | As a primary source of good , and subject to whatever rules may be agreed from time to time , this early example of human cooperation could be an unquestioned source of ‘ goodness ’ to be assigned to the keeping of the Created God . |