Example sentences of "with the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight 's programme has been made with the benefit of time and I think with the best of intentions . |
| 2 | This latter aspect of regional data becomes less of a problem with the progress of time and the development of administrative mechanisms directed at greater accuracy , but does indicate caution when comparisons are made with early Community regional statistics . |
| 3 | A solution of this problem led to an important heresy associated with the idea of time , personified by the ancient god Zurvan . |
| 4 | Of all ancient peoples the Maya appear to have been the most obsessed with the idea of time . |
| 5 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 6 | Spitzer is obsessed with the visualisation of time — be it , as in ‘ Hannover Relevator ’ ( 1990/91 ) , by installing a vertical steel construction bearing an operational conveyor-belt in a bank building or , as in ‘ Powder Tower ’ ( a medieval defence construction used to store munitions ) , by concealing an industrial robot in the roof structure , which drops the most diverse objects , one after another , into waiting water containers . |
| 7 | There were large , unmistakeable signs that with The Child In Time McEwan had lost his desire to outrage . |
| 8 | In direct contradistinction to this is the legal/administrative role of headteachers which , combined with the lack of time , compels a focus on routine procedures as is demonstrated in the research of Morgan , Hall and McKay ( 1986 ) and Torrington and Weightman ( 1989 ) . |
| 9 | With the lack of time county selectors may normally only select from those players nominated from either schools and clubs . |
| 10 | But it is there , and grew with the passage of time . |
| 11 | If anything , fashion is moving closer to the context of his style with the passage of time . |
| 12 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 13 | With the passage of time attitudes changed and support grew , mainly from Baptists , non-Wesleyan Methodists and smaller Congregational chapels . |
| 14 | it was felt that the happenings of these momentous years of the early eighties would , with the passage of time , become clouded in the memory of those of us who witnessed them . |
| 15 | With the passage of time and the growth of a network of relationships between the young nations of the region and the great powers outside , the conflict became far more complex . |
| 16 | Every product undergoes change with the passage of time and sooner or later becomes unsatisfactory , by which is meant in this context that it no longer conforms to its specification . |
| 17 | When a product is in regular production , however , there may be , with the passage of time , unsuspected and undetected changes in raw materials , methods of product handling or some other change that can affect the stability of the product . |
| 18 | With the passage of time , demons are about the only form of unpleasantness not recorded in accounts of the wetlands . |
| 19 | With the passage of time , such perilous subsistence gave way to more profitable wildfowling . |
| 20 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 21 | So completely was it abandoned that with the passage of time , and the weathering away of what little remained of it , its location was forgotten , although the facts of its existence and its fate were widely known . |
| 22 | Most bank notes are printed on special paper that makes forgery more or less impossible , although with the passage of time , new notes have to be issued to replace worn-out and frayed paper notes . |
| 23 | However , jewellery may be stolen , cattle may die and grain deteriorates in quality with the passage of time , thus wealth in these forms is inherently risky and to a certain extent illiquid , i.e. not usually suitable for instant transfer or use . |
| 24 | There are two points here : the first is that no matter how substantial is one 's background in user education , advice can become steadily less relevant with the passage of time unless a determined effort is made to keep contact with the users to be instructed ; ie to continue to instruct the user personally . |
| 25 | The Rushdie affair illustrated on the one hand that the general social climate changes with the passage of time , and views on what is censorable change with it . |
| 26 | The degree of confusion usually reduces with the passage of time , although it can be heightened at any point in life as a result of threat or adversity . |
| 27 | This balance changes with the passage of time as experience fashions these blueprints into more serviceable guides . |
| 28 | But such was the genuine power of his personality that his persistent contention that these fasts were undertaken with the object of assisting his opponents to accept his point of view on its merits always received respectful attention , even as it became more and more evident , with the passage of time , that their success depended in actuality on the personal capital he had built up : he was too special , too revered , and eventually too important in the political consciousness of the Indian masses , to be allowed to die . |
| 29 | I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy at my local cinema , The Grand , in a remote , windswept North-east village during the war years and my passion for Snow White , Grumpy , Happy and Mickey has not dimmed with the passage of time . |
| 30 | With the passage of time , I think that it can now safely be revealed that the deciding factor in the failure of the 1989 English/Scottish Institutional merger was the marked reluctance of the Queen Street pipes and drums to convert to Morris-men . |