Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analysis of the magnitude of the increase of basal intraoesophageal pressure produced by the common cavity and the percentage of time that the stomach was in pressure communication with the oesophageal lumen were attempts to determine whether intensity of distention had any bearing on the triggering of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 2 | In fact the Colosseum has suffered less from the depredations of the barbarians and the weathering of time than from its use in the Middle Ages as a fortress and later as a quarry by Renaissance builders ( 91 and 121 ) . |
| 3 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 4 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 5 | Thus , although the bonanza expected by some has not yet materialised , exploration has far from exhausted the possibilities , and the results have at least demonstrated beyond question that gas accumulated and survived in producible quantities in the Eastern Overthrust Belt , despite the disturbed condition of the strata and the passage of time . |
| 6 | This method reflects the fact that finance costs are a function of the amount outstanding and the passage of time . |
| 7 | It therefore becomes a little universe of independent reality in revolt from God and the rest of time , and able to fence itself off from the lessons of the past and the demands of the future . |
| 8 | Water the soil and the container from time to time . |
| 9 | A reduction in the number of matches and the space of time in which they are played is something Mr. Robinson is pressing for . |
| 10 | She wandered around the lodge , looking patently bored , refusing to take part in activities , and complaining about the service , the primitive facilities , and the lack of time Matthew had for her . |
| 11 | Where it has been assessed , the variable which most consistently predicts both degree of elaboration and the consistency over time of such memories appears to be the emotionality of the original event ( Conway , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The argument was about the Law of Entropy and the arrow of time . |
| 13 | Also known as The First One and The Master of Time ; El was the father of gods and men amongst ancient Syrians and Canaanites . |
| 14 | They called police near their home at Willington , County Durham , for help — and the race against time began . |
| 15 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 16 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 17 | Thinking of epilogues , and closed books , and the passing of time , how do you see the Marschallin ? |
| 18 | It will take a fight , not merely a debate and the passing of time , to disarm the financial institutions and restructure the control over investment funds . |
| 19 | Gradually these impressions , and the passing of time , merged with her observation of Caro 's improvement to wipe all thought of Meg from her mind . |
| 20 | While the subordination of time and space to narrative causality is shared with many literary forms , and while many twentieth-century literary and artistic forms adapt to their own purposes the principles of montage and the manipulation of time and space learned from cinema , the cut as a fundamental figure of the rhetoric and the immediate experience of narrative — field/reverse-field where the slash represents a cut , or the conventional point-of-view structure of look/object/look — gives cinema a generic specificity . |
| 21 | Cramer stresses that , no matter what your age , this exercise can be valuable as a springboard for future plans , and the urgency of time passing can actually galvanise you into making changes . |
| 22 | Very little was known about the type of work and the amount of time spent on farm work by the farmer 's wife so the questions in this section were aimed at trying to identify : ( a ) how important her role was ; ( b ) the level of her present skills ; ( c ) whether training could expand her contribution to the farm business ; and ( d ) whether training for the benefit of the farm as a whole could be conducted through women . |
| 23 | the skills or subjects taught and the amount of time allocated to each ; |
| 24 | Page and Time records the number of pages printed and the amount of time spent on each WP job . |
| 25 | Choice of research methods is often decisively affected by choice of topic , and the amount of time , money , and work hours available . |
| 26 | But there is an association between the kind of standards and routines followed in housework and the amount of time spent doing it . |
| 27 | The issue of the length of waiting lists , their variation in length between areas and the amount of time an individual patient may wait remain highly contentious . |
| 28 | As your business grows , so does the size of your payroll and the amount of time you or your staff have to spend calculating and paying wages , salaries and pensions . |
| 29 | Past examination papers will also show him the probable lay-out of the paper that he will be expected to answer , and the amount of time likely to be allowed on each question . |
| 30 | And the cost of what you 're actually buying back , the service you 're buying back is basically governed by your age and your salary and the amount of time you want to buy back . |