Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further attempts to relate the incidence of Crohn 's disease to known genetic variation between populations are unlikely to be productive since differences of incidence between ethnic groups are narrowing with time and migration . |
| 2 | case of the diagnostic tests this model looks reasonably okay , we have n't got erm significant serial correlation , we have n't breached form , we have reasonably normally distributed residuals , right , test for hetero skilasticity that just a test to see whether the residuals are growing over time , right , hetero skilasticity is where we have non constant , non constant variance of our , of our error term right , and very often you , you find that the variance through the residuals , something like that the residuals will look like that , I think , they 're growing systematically over time , right , these are homo skilastic right , and these are hetero skilastic right , residuals and again we would n't want to have a model of hetero skilastic residuals , right , simply because that violates one of the assumptions on which the blue properties are based . |
| 3 | THE family of little Sam Hayton are racing against time to raise the cash required for pioneering eye surgery to enable him to see . |
| 4 | POLICE are racing against time to find five stolen canisters of rodent poison so deadly it can not be handled without breathing apparatus . |
| 5 | Doctors are racing against time to try to save the life of a former nurse from South Oxfordshire who desperately needs a lung transplant . |
| 6 | Doctors are racing against time to save the life of a former nurse from south Oxfordshire who desperately needs a lung transplant . |
| 7 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 8 | Committees are beginning to time their reports to correspond with appropriate business , such as legislation or a planned debate and this ensures greater coverage of their report . |
| 9 | The average size of transactions , it was noted above , has been rising over time and now amounts to about £1 million for transactions with customers and about £4 million for intra-market business . |
| 10 | The writer is very necessary as scripts often need to be re-vamped on the spot if they are running over time or do n't sound right . |
| 11 | Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her . |
| 12 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sleeping well , and I 'm waking on time , so I must be feeling confident . ’ |
| 14 | Emotionally you seem to be playing against time these days , and astounding loved ones . |
| 15 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 16 | Despite these difficulties with the idea of a static and unchanging universe , no one in the seventeenth , eighteenth , nineteenth , or early twentieth century suggested that the universe might be evolving with time . |
| 17 | If the images themselves are changing in time , as in the case of animations or motion video , the problem is compounded . |
| 18 | This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time . |
| 19 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 20 | Landform inheritance ( e.g. Pain , 1978 ) is therefore a concept emphasized by some researchers in environments of this kind , and Ollier ( 1979 , 1981 ) proposes evolutionary geomorphology not as a cyclic approach with a sequence of stages but suggests that the earth 's landscapes as a whole are evolving through time and this is analogous to the concept of an evolving earth as used in some geology books ( e.g. Windley , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | The governments , nervous , are playing for time . |
| 22 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 23 | In other words , the demands on the state in its capacity as the focus of the system 's legitimacy were increasing over time . |
| 24 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
| 25 | it 's raining in time for us to go to school , come on |
| 26 | The Middlesbrough group of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society is racing against time to save the TV time lord from an enforced break by his masters , the BBC . |
| 27 | The same message is coming over time and time again : man 's activities are destroying the planet , and the environmentalists are the most likely people to save the planet . |
| 28 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 29 | I am pleased to say that the Sizewell B project is progressing on time and to cost . |
| 30 | Yet we can observe how the expansion of the universe is varying with time and thus determine that the-cosmological constant is very small . |