Example sentences of "[prep] space and time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astronomers may travel into the depths of space and time , but on their return they must still convince their colleagues of the truth of what they saw . |
| 2 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 3 | 3 Metaphors of space and time |
| 4 | Methodologically , the ‘ chronotope ’ — the specific organization of space and time within the work or within a genre — is at the centre of Bakhtin 's tracings of the changes within genres and of the boundaries between them . |
| 5 | More generally , though , his discussion of these chronotopes exemplifies the way in which the shifting organization of space and time can be used to plot generic change . |
| 6 | It should also be added immediately that this chronotope , this regime of space and time , is much less determinate than that of classical Hollywood , less regimented by the precise divisions of labour and skills and the forms of standardization appropriate to the particular kind of industrial production out of which ‘ classical , rules developed . |
| 7 | The problems that his paradoxes raise concerning the mathematical structure of space and time are still being discussed today . |
| 8 | Their influence on Plato ( 427–347 BC ) is evident in the different treatment of space and time in his cosmological dialogue the Timaeus . |
| 9 | Facial expression is a rich source of information regarding the emotional state of the individual and some evidence of this can be found in the amount of space and time authors and playwrights give to describing the facial changes in their characters . |
| 10 | You talk of space and time : I know only the difference between the sea and the land . |
| 11 | When even measurements of space and time have proved to be relative , and the sub-atomic world to be as insubstantial as the realm of Platonic ideas , is it perhaps time to recognize that each of us lives in his own reality ? |
| 12 | ‘ Eternal Father , you have placed us in a world of space and time , and through the events of our lives you bless us with your love . |
| 13 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 14 | On this basis , knowledge of God could only be established if either God himself were immediately accessible to our awareness , or ‘ God ’ were a category demonstrably necessary , like those of space and time , to the ordering and shaping of our understanding . |
| 15 | Where Einstein broke through the previously accepted notions of space and time and re-ordered the fundamental concepts of established physics around the single constant of the velocity of light , Barth undertook a comparable reorientation of theology around the single centre of Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | In this sense the contingencies of space and time , as it were , issue blank cheques . |
| 17 | The paper will deal with some distinguishing features only because of the obvious limitations of space and time . |
| 18 | Functionalism , having fled the traditional mysteries of the mind , appears to rarefy consciousness , to speak quickly , into a Platonic universe , out of space and time . |
| 19 | Kant argued that the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity can be meaningfully drawn only in the domain of the phenomenal ; i.e. within the context of space and time , which , according to him , are the " forms of our intuition " and not properties of things in themselves . |
| 20 | Moreover , the fact that experience of objects is to be had only under the form of space and time ensures the applicability of mathematics to the whole or the phenomenal ( and hence physical ) world . |
| 21 | Whereas in Kant 's theory , in a sense , there still lingers the common sense conception of space and time as some kind of backcloth against which the positions of phenomenal objects can be uniquely charted and distinguished from each other , Leibniz regarded space and time as properties of entities . |
| 22 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 23 | It completely revolutionized our notions of space and time . |
| 24 | These notions of space and time seemed to correspond to common sense and reality . |
| 25 | The answer is they ca n't , not if our normal ideas of space and time hold true . |
| 26 | You could choose to move on different paths through space-time , but nothing you could do would modify the background of space and time . |
| 27 | No longer could we think of space and time as running on forever , unaffected by what happened in the universe . |
| 28 | What one needs is a way of doing the sum over histories not just for particles but for the whole fabric of space and time as well . |
| 29 | The bombing was concentrated both in terms of space and time ; a small number of East End London boroughs bore the brunt of the damage , typically Stepney and Bermondsey , during the first few weeks of the Blitz in late 1940 . |
| 30 | This unusual situation provides a motivation for bringing together the extreme poles of our everyday understanding of space and time : the most outer and the most inner , the first and the last . |