Example sentences of "of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |
| 2 | The biggest changes are in the length of time people ill with the disease are now surviving and in the nature of the illnesses themselves . |
| 3 | Within a short space of time referrals were regularly coming in . |
| 4 | Over a period of time they will all be ill . |
| 5 | Without ACET 's practical support at home they could spend long periods of time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 6 | The intention of a Gift Aid scheme is to encourage giving without the donor being tied to a particular charity for this length of time . |
| 7 | An enormous amount of work has been done and perhaps still more remains to be done in arranging works of art in exact sequence of time . |
| 8 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 9 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 10 | Malraux 's books , like thousands of picture books since , emphasise details and similarities across boundaries of time and place . |
| 11 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 12 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 13 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 14 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 15 | The art that comes of them is one in which imagination takes power , the power to distort and exaggerate , in which difference of person is suspended , in which the experience of time is as it is in dreams . |
| 16 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 17 | There will probably also be some classes in radio , television and film techniques and perhaps singing too , but by far the largest proportion of time will be allotted to the production exercise which is part of every term 's work . |
| 18 | However , where facilities are available for use over short periods of time , the rudiments of camera acting are taught in a structured way . |
| 19 | Most new actors have tremendous optimism , as indeed they must , for without belief in themselves training is just a huge waste of time . |
| 20 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 21 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 22 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 23 | And yet the glass itself is about the emptiness of time , he wrote . |
| 24 | Let it not bear the traces of work , the traces of time . |
| 25 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 26 | There were traces of the same fine-boned look about him , but his features were already well masked by what was likely in the course of time to become a solid layer of self-indulgent fat . |
| 27 | There was plenty of time before Curtain Up at 8 o'clock , half the cast had gone out and backstage had a drowsy air about it . |
| 28 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 29 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 30 | It is essential that bulbs spend a period of time in cool , dark conditions before flowering ( this is known as plunging ) to ensure that a good root system is produced , otherwise stunted growth and deformed flowers can result . |