Example sentences of "in time [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously completing joint statements booking in time to go on the computers to get them typed up nicely |
| 2 | Our children , 9 , and , 10 , are still asleep , but I take a cup to my wife before leaving home in time to arrive at the Grain Terminal before 7.00 am . |
| 3 | He informed them that Stella had not only had her appendix , but also her gall bladder removed , and that he would be home in time to attend to the next horse trek arranged for Saturday . |
| 4 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 5 | Of the savings made so far , £180,000 is in time saved in the work we do . |
| 6 | We recommend that most desktop PCs should in time connect to a single Ethernet network , with appropriate security for sensitive data , such as Personnel records . |
| 7 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 8 | Durkheim 's second ‘ law ’ was : ‘ Deprivations of liberty , and of liberty alone , varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime , tend to become more and more the normal means of social control ’ ( 1973 : 294 ) . |
| 9 | If you evolve such a universe forward in time according to the laws of science , you will end up with the lumpy and irregular state you started with . |
| 10 | Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate . |
| 11 | She slowly regained her strength in the latter part of the year , just in time to cope with a winter season and no designer . |
| 12 | ‘ How d' you do , Mr Bodenland , you are in time to listen to a little revision ! ’ |
| 13 | Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted . |
| 14 | The former Prime Minister flew back from America on Thursday just in time to embark on a royal progress through London 's Tory drawing rooms . |
| 15 | No no I we 're not saying that at all , that 's a different proposition entirely er certainly the County Council is at this moment in time committed to an outer northern relief road , I do n't think there 's any question of that . |
| 16 | The friends , all from the Meadowfield and Brandon area of County Durham , had stayed overnight on their way home and had made an early start to get back in time to play in a Sunday League fixture for their local pub team . |
| 17 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 18 | Just in time to show before the dark |
| 19 | The information available to both players at this point in time consists of the past history of the state variable and the sequences of observed disturbed actions . |
| 20 | I arrive just in time to run into the law turning the place upside down . |
| 21 | Gorbachev 's hopes of signing the Union Treaty in time to present to the mid-July G-7 Summit an agreement on the future shape of the USSR , were disappointed by the actions of Ukraine . |
| 22 | This is close enough to us in time to qualify for the " present " end of the uniformitarian doctrine . |
| 23 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 24 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 25 | Rincewind reached the Broken Drum at a dead run , and was just in time to collide with a man who came out backwards , fast . |
| 26 | This policy was adopted by the County Council , ratified by their successors on the new Orkney Islands Council , and in time included in the Structure Plan for the islands . |
| 27 | Lemert suggested that this cuts off access to conventional settings , activities and identities and in time leads to the ‘ deviants ’ acquiring a different conception of themselves : they live up to the deviant identity given to them by the labellers and indulge in more ( ‘ secondary ’ ) deviance . |