Example sentences of "place and time " in BNC.
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| 1 | History sometimes exhibits weird symmetries between events distant from one another in place and time . |
| 2 | This consists of analysing the coins into groups or categories of similar coins , since it is always easier to situate a large group in place and time and then bring greater precision to an individual object forming part of that group . |
| 3 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 4 | Of course , it would be much too simple if die links always proved that two objects were made at the same place and time . |
| 5 | When the last tram ran through Glasgow in September 1962 , and two days later , the Burgh of Clydebank ran its last tram , it was like the loss of some favourite place and time a vision of childhood vanishing down the sink in the wash-house . |
| 6 | Parental responsibility appears here in the form of a duty to ensure that the child is examined ; there is an offence on failing without reasonable cause to comply with requirements of a notice requiting the child to be examined at a stipulated place and time . |
| 7 | Mention of the transversal space explored by Celati provokes a more general consideration of place and time in contemporary Italian narrative , starting from the marshy area where fiction borders with reportage . |
| 8 | This practice was upheld in the High Court , where Skinner J. accepted that , in the case before him , the police ‘ honestly and reasonably form[ed] the opinion that there [ was ] a real risk of a breach of the peace in the sense that it [ was ] in close proximity both in place and time ’ . |
| 9 | It is worth spending a few minutes looking at how the waves are breaking and picking the best place and time to launch . |
| 10 | It was a place and time of deliberate choosing and he chose also to be incarnate as a man . |
| 11 | But there are many other possible reasons why first-century Palestine may have been the ‘ right ’ place and time , such that the good communications in the Roman Empire would be helpful in the spreading of the Christian message after the resurrection . |
| 12 | We can not be sure that , in choosing a place and time , God was making a point about gender . |
| 13 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 14 | But most of us would probably eschew the ostentatious and eccentric , and settle for an honest and straightforward run of bindings that have a plain tale to tell of their place and time . |
| 15 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , perhaps , I find that walking with no means to draw or paint at all often has the effect of revelation at a particular place and time along the walk . |
| 17 | The personal pronouns , according to Lyons , form part of ‘ the ‘ deictic co-ordinates ’ of the typical situation of utterance ’ ; that is , they help to define ( along with such adverbs of place and time as here , there , now , then ) the spatio-temporal location of the act of communication . |
| 18 | One reason for their existence , for instance , may be what has been described above : the fact [ sic ] that writing establishes a different kind of relation between the word and its referent , a relationship that is more general and more abstract , and less closely connected with the particularities of person , place and time than obtains in oral communication . |
| 19 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 20 | It is then asked that the witnesses be examined either in accordance with a given list of questions , which will have been drafted by the applicant party , or regarding certain matters summarised in the letter of request itself ; an example might be ‘ a road traffic accident believed to have taken place in the sight of the witness at such-and-such a place and time ’ . |
| 21 | This should cover the ethnic group , identity of suspect , object , grounds of search , place and time , date and results ( s.3 ) . |
| 22 | If then you have information about the setting , both in terms of where the event is situated in place and time , and in terms of the physical relations of the interactants with respect to posture and gesture and facial expression , your expectations will be still further limited . |
| 23 | The actual place and time of writing of the manuscript by the author , Wilkie Collins , or indeed the identity of the author , is not a necessary piece of information for the reader to interpret the text . |
| 24 | Even in the absence of information about place and time of original utterance , even in the absence of information about the speaker / writer and his intended recipient , it is often possible to reconstruct at least some part of the physical context and to arrive at some interpretation of the text . |
| 25 | A friend can attempt to recall to your mind some utterance which you both experienced by a variety of place and time tags : |
| 26 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 27 | Further , as Harvey ( 1978 ) makes clear , the resolutions of those struggles in any one place and time are represented in the built environment ( illustrated in his work on Paris : Harvey , 1985a ) , which in turn constrains and yet enables further developments in the reproduction of society , as illustrated by his work on American suburbia : see Harvey ( 1975 ) and also Walker ( 1981 ) . |
| 28 | They result from an observer 's use of his or her senses at a particular place and time . |
| 29 | A note to the notice of the annual general meeting must state the place and time at which copies of all such service contracts can be inspected or that there are no such contracts . |
| 30 | Thematizing place and time adjuncts is less marked in some languages , such as Spanish and Portuguese , than in English . |