Example sentences of "of time [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks . |
| 2 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 3 | Here n i is the number of times the ith symmetry species appears in Γ y , h is the order of the point group ( equal to the total number of symmetry operations , and given at the head of the character table ) , g r is the number of equivalent symmetry operations of type R , and Xi ( R ) is the character listed for operation R for this symmetry species in the character table . |
| 4 | The ability to determine this level , referred to as the ‘ odour threshold detection value ’ is provided by dilution techniques , the value itself representing the number of times an odour-bearing gas has to be diluted with clear air before 50 per cent of a panel of sniffers will just not detect it . |
| 5 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 6 | and attempts to evoke ahead of time a vivid anticipation of the experience with its associated feelings of anxiety , tension , depression and deprivation . |
| 7 | If there 's a continual turnover of material we can actually calculate its residence time , that is the average length of time a particular molecule of substance X spends in the ocean . |
| 8 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 9 | From this period of time the great majority of extant work is ecclesiastical . |
| 10 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 11 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 12 | And in course of time the whole world reaps the benefits . |
| 13 | The regression itself will last approximately twenty minutes — the maximum length of time the human mind is able to concentrate sufficiently to allow it to take place . |
| 14 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 15 | But within a very short period of time the ideological balance of power in the town shifts dramatically . |
| 16 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 17 | The issue of the length of waiting lists , their variation in length between areas and the amount of time an individual patient may wait remain highly contentious . |