Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called " bare infinitive " will be analysed here as evoking a perfective view of the realization of an event , i.e. the image of an event as unfolding in time from its beginning to its end in the case of an action-like event or as actualizing its full lexical content at each instant of its existence in the case of a state-like one . |
| 2 | Full-time undergraduate , postgraduate , diploma and certificate students are required to pay , prior to enrolment , a composite annual fee as prescribed from time to time by the Council of the University . |
| 3 | These terms and conditions ( as amended from time to time ‘ the Conditions ’ ) regulate the use of an Abbeylink Card ( ‘ your Card ’ ) and form the basis of a contract between the customer ( you ) and Abbey National plc ( us ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps no political argument could persuade American judges to reject the proposition that Congress must be elected in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , as amended from time to time in accordance with its own amending provisions . |
| 5 | From our discussion of the spatio-temporal co-ordinates which seem , in principle , peculiarly accessible to standard specification , it must be obvious first , that deictic expressions may retain a standard deictic centre but must be interpreted with respect to the content of the utterance in which they occur and , second , that the relevant standard temporal description of an utterance , for instance 9.22 a.m. on Tuesday 28 June 1873 , as opposed to in the late nineteenth century , will vary depending on the knowledge and intention of the analyst ( or speaker ) in referring to the utterance as located in time . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 7 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 8 | In ( 157 ) the reference seems to be to an active or working principle whose action is represented as coinciding in time with the functioning of the sewing machine . |
| 9 | Since let signifies here not intervening in some event which is already under way , it is obvious that the letting must be thought of as coinciding in time with the actualization of the other event . |
| 10 | It has been seen that the bare infinitive is used whenever the two events are represented as coinciding in time , either as two actualities ( after full verbs and auxiliary do ) or as two potentialities ( after the modal auxiliaries ) . |
| 11 | It is getting nearer as measured by time distance . |
| 12 | Seen in retrospect , Castells 's work seems as bound in time and place as the Chicago School itself . |
| 13 | It was winter and we made an early start , travelling the seventy-odd miles in darkness so as to arrive with time to tackle up and be fishing as the last dregs of darkness dripped away . |
| 14 | Official denials by the Argentine Foreign Office were interpreted as playing for time to avoid loss of face . |
| 15 | It has been seen that the to preceding the infinitive is the sign that the event expressed by means of the infinitive is represented as posteriorized in time with respect to some point of reference . |
| 16 | All goods supplied by the Seller shall be in accordance with ( i ) the current edition of the relevant Product Description Leaflet as published from time to time by the Seller ( copies of which are available from the Seller upon request ) and ( ii ) those further specifications or descriptions ( if any ) expressly listed or set out on the face of the Order . |
| 17 | They also promised to use their friends in the Salvation Army as supports at times when they thought they could not cope by themselves . |