Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from a questionnaire sent to teachers in the project 's associated schools are then used in a discussion of practical issues relating to the adequacy of resources of time and staffing needed to develop and operate a graduated test scheme . |
| 2 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |
| 3 | Among these are the completion of assignments on time , attendance for appointments ( including tutorials and examinations ) , undertaking the necessary groundwork for the course — whether in the laboratory , studio or library — and accepting the customary house rules , such as not interrupting ( or barracking ) the lecturers . |
| 4 | ‘ So what , ’ snorted Billy , who returned with a tray of drinks in time to catch the remark , ‘ we 're enjoying ourselves , ai n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | In oral as well as in literate culture , it would appear that there are techniques whereby the directness and immediacy of everyday experience are contrasted with the holding of traditions over time , and with the ‘ fixing ’ and ratifying of definitions and meanings . |
| 6 | Verbs involve an appreciation of time ; nouns of objects in space , or of mental concepts and experiences ; adjectives of qualities between which we can discriminate ; adverbs of associations in time , space and quality . |
| 7 | Oct. 31 The UN Secretary-General 's report on the Temple Mount killings proposes a conference of the signatories of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in time of war to discuss measures to protect Palestinians in the occupied territories [ see p. 37873 ] . |
| 8 | The UN Security Council on April 4 unanimously condemned the " acts of violence at Rafah " and called on Israel to abide by the 1949 Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in time of war . |
| 9 | In a later paper Jenny ( 1961 ) endeavoured to advance the approach by introducing ecosystems in a systems-oriented approach whereby the initial state Lo represents the assemblage of properties at time zero , Px is the combined result of inputs and outputs which provides the flux potential and t is the age of the system . |
| 10 | An explanation of the increasing complexity of systems with time . |
| 11 | The work has now made possible some extremely interesting analyses of changes in time use over the last twenty-five years . |
| 12 | An additional problem is that the resource requirements for the necessary development work may result in a degraded service to lexicographers and may displace the interactive work of lexicographers from time to time . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman cares to consider examples from south of the border , he will see that trusts there are cutting waiting lists , employing more doctors , treating more patients and providing a wider range of services at times convenient to patients . |
| 14 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 15 | All these are examples of the changing importance of roads through time . |
| 16 | A changing of partners through time . ’ |
| 17 | A subset of the data is now being incorporated into a multinational comparative data set being compiled by Professor Gershuny at the University of Bath , which for the first time enables comparisons of trends in time use , for similar social groups , across time and across countries . |
| 18 | With regard to the gradual exploration of historical time , reading not only helps to develop the concept of periods of time and of progression ( if not progress ) , but it also ( through the historical novel ) enables the reader to ‘ feel what it was like ’ . |
| 19 | Nevertheless a strong archaic effect is produced , by inversion of nouns and adjectives , careful selection of adverbs of time like ‘ yet ’ and ‘ seldom ’ , and other less obvious linguistic features . |
| 20 | To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for . |
| 21 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 22 | Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems . |
| 23 | Auditory consciousness with its markedly linear character dependent upon the sequencing of events in time is a powerful vehicle for emotion , perhaps especially because the human voice is experienced in this mode , but it lacks the map-like quality of the inner visual panorama . |
| 24 | Transport has , in DeJong 's phrase , ‘ differentiated and killed the street ’ in a sequence of events through time . |
| 25 | The head estimates that : overall we must have put something like £2000 into the library in terms of pure cash and obviously almost the equivalent in terms of hours of time given . |
| 26 | attendance allowances for members , I would move that er , a scheme be commenced from the first of April ninety-four , and that the wording attached to the paper , be altered in two respects , in place of the phrase is a person over sixty-nine years of age , the words is an elderly person , and more significantly at the end of paragraph four , and normally lives with a member as part of the member 's family and be able to be left at th , be unable to be left unsupervised , be added , And that er , power to delegate a director of financial to amend the rates of allowances from time to time rates of attendance allowance for members , and that the scheme be met from the overall member 's allowance to which we recently referring . |
| 27 | MONDAY : First a stop at the tiny island of Antipaxos with time to enjoy watersports , then on to Lefkas , with time for exploring and swimming before partying in the evening . |
| 28 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 29 | On one occasion , to kill time before a suitably uplifting film , we met at Waterloo station and decided to go to the cinema within the station precinct which showed a continuous programme of cartoons for the convenience of passengers with time on their hands . |
| 30 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |