Example sentences of "up [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 2 | For a period , he worked in the Manchester factory from 3am until 5pm , going to bed at 7pm so he could get up in time for the next day 's duty . |
| 3 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 4 | This cleared up in time for him to jump in Zurich , however , and then he returned to Whitaker 's Yorkshire stable for his final preparation before the long flight from Frankfurt to California today . |
| 5 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 6 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
| 7 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing LAN-based multiplatform e-mail products hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter rollout . |
| 8 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 9 | I went back to my room , trying to forget about my brother ; I wanted to get to bed early so that I could be up in time for the naming ceremony of the new catapult . |
| 10 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 11 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 12 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 13 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 14 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 15 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 16 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 17 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 18 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 19 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 20 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 21 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |
| 22 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 23 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 24 | They turn up from time to time . ’ |
| 25 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
| 26 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 27 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
| 28 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 29 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 30 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |