Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was studying what he wanted to know , and would become a rich farmer in time . |
| 2 | A kick should never be attempted if there is any risk of not being able to return to a solid stance in time to parry a counter-attack . |
| 3 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 4 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 5 | Prevalence rates relate to a specific point in time . |
| 6 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 7 | But any hopes of seeing the Springboks were , however , dashed when the Republic 's two rugby bodies failed to unite under a sole administration in time . |
| 8 | In 1789 there were a dozen different States which made use of Swiss units ; and probably one Swiss in every twelve of military age was serving in a foreign army in time of peace . |
| 9 | There is a high cost in time and money for audit firms in competing in a change in auditors . |
| 10 | Those that remain have made a personal investment in time and energy ; they have a stake in maintaining the system that has been developed and replacements will need to make their mark and have freedom to develop new ideas , from this a sense of identity , ownership and commitment will develop . |
| 11 | A reduction in interest rates will result in a fall in the size of this subsidy , and the phasing in of a cash ceiling approach ought to be timed to such a favourable point in time . |
| 12 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 13 | This is important because while an online facility enables the database to record information about a highly dynamic process , management information is more often related to a fixed point in time or a precisely controlled period . |
| 14 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 15 | On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Moment in Time . |
| 16 | On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Moment in Time ( henceforth ‘ the Boston text' ) is a film title used by Guy Debord in 1959 . |
| 17 | Most obviously it means that the ‘ birds ’ sang at a previous moment in time but it could also mean the time of year , the time of the poet 's life , and most strikingly , it could be another word connected with death . |
| 18 | In other words , if we want to compare the size of the money stock at one point in time ( M st ) with that of a previous point in time ( M st-1 ) , we have to look at the flow ( change ) of money between those two points |
| 19 | This , I 'm sure , will give a fine finish in time . |
| 20 | President Joaquim Chissano announced on July 31 that the Frelimo politburo was unanimously in favour of introducing a multiparty system in time for the next elections , scheduled for 1991 . |
| 21 | No , all you need , to catch up with spring work , is a little expertise in time management . |
| 22 | He saw the half-dressed models then , and quickly walked away , only just taking a deep breath in time as he walked out from the cover of the parked car . |
| 23 | He decided , therefore , that he would not use it , and gained a great deal in time saved in calculation without losing anything in validity . |
| 24 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 25 | However , in contrast to that of Hirtle , the analysis put forward here proposes that without to the idea of a prior position in time is not evoked , since otherwise the particle would be completely redundant and hence meaningless , which has been shown not to be the case . |
| 26 | This use appears therefore to depict the support of the infinitive as entering into the actualization phase of an event from a prior position in time when nothing seemed to be militating in favour of its occurrence . |
| 27 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 28 | Whenever there was an increase in time spent on that area described as ‘ other ’ in the analysis sheet , there appeared to be a corresponding decrease in time with pupils and on curriculum development . |
| 29 | Metaphorically speaking , the research front is a frozen moment in time ; a snapshot of the state of a growing , changing , organic entity at a precise instant , seen from a single viewpoint . |
| 30 | Marie Hegarty , head of the business department , said : ‘ Whether it is for pleasure or profit the care of horses requires a considerable commitment in time and money . |