Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a given time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It illustrates , in an acute form perhaps , the frequently encountered problem of establishing the version of a text which is in force at a given time when that text has been much amended , whether it be the latest version or the version in force at a particular date in the past . |
| 2 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 3 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 4 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 5 | If you consider how people — consumers — actually use advertising , as opposed to how advertisers hope , optimistically , to use people , it is quite clear that , to a given person at a given time , by no means all advertisements are equal . |
| 6 | Using the count of books on loan at a given time for each interest category , he takes the square root of each of these numbers . |
| 7 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 8 | Most laboratory and field studies of human behaviour involve taking a situational snap-shot at a given time in a given place . |
| 9 | ‘ Dogmatic theology is the science which systematises the doctrine prevalent in a Christian church at a given time ’ . |
| 10 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 11 | Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! ) |
| 12 | Neural and humoral factors modulate these processes to produce patterns of activity appropriate to the circumstances of the gastrointestinal tract at a given time . |
| 13 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 14 | The technology has taken on a more dominant role in controlling the way work is carried out and also the number of staff involved in the system at a given time . |
| 15 | Social problems are simply what members of a society feel is a problem at a given time . |
| 16 | Philip the Fair 's adviser , Guillaume de Nogaret , saw the regnum as the total area of Capetian jurisdiction — and that might not correspond to its territorial extent at a given time . |
| 17 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 18 | Surely , it will be said , it is necessary to draw a distinction between predicates which within a given context at a given time can be appropriately ascribed to a given existent , and those predicates which under the same conditions can not be meaningfully said that either they or their contradictories are true of the existent in question . |
| 19 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |