Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a given time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 2 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 3 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 4 | Most laboratory and field studies of human behaviour involve taking a situational snap-shot at a given time in a given place . |
| 5 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 6 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 7 | If you consider how people — consumers — actually use advertising , as opposed to how advertisers hope , optimistically , to use people , it is quite clear that , to a given person at a given time , by no means all advertisements are equal . |
| 8 | Philip the Fair 's adviser , Guillaume de Nogaret , saw the regnum as the total area of Capetian jurisdiction — and that might not correspond to its territorial extent at a given time . |
| 9 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 10 | Surely , it will be said , it is necessary to draw a distinction between predicates which within a given context at a given time can be appropriately ascribed to a given existent , and those predicates which under the same conditions can not be meaningfully said that either they or their contradictories are true of the existent in question . |
| 11 | Project management is concerned with achieving a specific goal in a given time using resources available for that period only . |
| 12 | Neural and humoral factors modulate these processes to produce patterns of activity appropriate to the circumstances of the gastrointestinal tract at a given time . |
| 13 | ‘ Dogmatic theology is the science which systematises the doctrine prevalent in a Christian church at a given time ’ . |