Example sentences of "as a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 The slope of the population e.p.s.p.s , in response to stimuli delivered alternately to S1 and S2 at 15-s intervals , are plotted as a function of time .
2 The graph plots the relative fluorescence , emitted by the indicator fluo-3 , as a function of time .
3 Such ‘ staircase ’ signatures are common in cusp ion precipitation and have been used to calculate the reconnection rate as a function of time .
4 This behaviour is a consequence of the structure of the model and of the fact that the model processes inputs and generates outputs that vary as a function of time .
5 STATIC means not varying as a function of time .
6 It means that neither the magnitude nor the position of the charge varies as a function of time .
7 This is valid for the case when the flux linking a stationary circuit varies as a function of time .
8 It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates .
9 Up to now all the wires have been stationary , and the magnetic field has varied as a function of time .
10 When the magnetic field is moved bodily there will be certain places in space where the magnitude of the magnetic field is changing ( shaded areas in Fig. 4.12 ) as a function of time , and that changing magnetic field can give rise to an electric field at x = 0 .
11 ( ii ) Determine the position and velocity of the ring as a function of time .
12 We may ask an observer to carry a device which records his position , velocity and acceleration as a function of time as he mingles with the crowd or we may set up two observation posts at the entrance and count the number of people per second passing across the space between the posts .
13 They obtain an expression for the stress as a function of time In this form , and at long-term equilibrium the material resembles one considered by Signiorini ( 1955 ) , whereas if A/2 + B = 0 it is of Mooney form and if A = B = 0 it is Rivlin 's neo-Hookean material .
14 It is then usual to determine E ( or e ) or J ( or — ) as a function of time at more than one stress ( extension ) level i order to have a check on the linearity of the viscoelastic response .
15 When the orbital period is plotted as a function of time it shows a steady decrease : .
16 The test measures producing rates and pressure as a function of time , says Jeff App , reservoir engineer from the Exploration department .
17 Equalization is rapid ( 5 to 30 min ) and permeation is readily detected , if present , by following the change of head as a function of time on a recorder .
18 The boundary is located by the sharp change in n∼ and its movement is followed as a function of time using one or other of the optical methods available .
19 A constant load is firmly fixed to one end and the elongation is followed by measuring the relative movement of two fiducial marks , made initially on the polymer , as a function of time .
20 Stress-relaxation experiments involve the measurement of the force required to maintain the deformation produced initially by an applied stress as a function of time .
21 The change in absorbance at 260 nm , as a function of time , was recorded whilst increasing the temperature of the solution at a rate of 0.9 °C/min ( Figure 2 ) .
22 The screen of this complicated electronic instrument presents a stationary picture of the potential difference between its input terminals as a function of time .
23 11.6 ( a ) Two-mesh circuit analysed with the aid of Laplace transformation in the text and ( b ) the solutions for I 2 and V as a function of time for certain network parameters .
24 Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … "
25 In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time .
26 The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value .
27 Profit is normally seen as a flow over time whereas wealth can be described as a stock at a point in time .
28 Feminism and a greater acknowledged ( though not necessarily practised ) awareness of the equality and independence of sexual rights have becalmed the Don as a fool of time .
29 The girls , who gained international fame as Christina and Caroline in Neighbours , are now recording an album and hope to have one of the tracks cut as a single in time for the pantomime 's launch on December 18 .
30 There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour .
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