Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as a consequence , a phenomenon , peculiar to the species , called ‘ belief ’ , takes hold like an infection , or on-going plague , and in the course of time a formidable hierarchical structure develops . |
| 2 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 3 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 4 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 5 | Suppose that in the course of time the vowel /a : / in a particular language becomes open /α:/ , as it did in Southern Middle English in words of the type home , stone ( OE há0m , stá0n ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With the passage of time the contribution that these families made to the total genetic diversity of the population became subordinate to the seedling recruits : although the number of seedlings appears to be very small , their contribution to the total number of genetic individuals in the population is clearly significant in determining the number of clones or genets that are present . |
| 8 | Because those rules were not written , memory was crucial — and with the passage of time the rules were likely to be further modified , reflecting imperfect recollections of what had been done before . |
| 9 | If I make a large number of such measurements the theory enables me to calculate the proportion of times the electron will be found " here " and the proportion of times it will be found " there " . |
| 10 | The equilibrium state describes the proportion of time the system spends in each state in the long term . |
| 11 | Table V shows the percentage of time the oesophageal and gastric tracings indicated identical pressure recordings . |
| 12 | Other side-effects are associated with physical dependence and withdrawal , and vary considerably depending on the dosage given and the duration of time the drug has been administered . |
| 13 | The longer the lapse of time the less your chance of success , but ferrets can live for a considerable period within a burrow system — as much as three weeks . |
| 14 | The period of time a bill is before Parliament determines how long the window of opportunity to legislate on criminal justice matters remains open . |
| 15 | This would be done on the basis of the facts , in particular the period of time the marriage had lasted and the extent to which the wife had foregone the opportunity to earn pension rights while bringing up the children . |
| 16 | But other things took people unawares : the set devoted to the music of the Second Viennese School , the Mahler Sixth , and in the fullness of time the great recordings of the Mahler Ninth and a fine Nielsen Fourth . |
| 17 | And in the fullness of Time the seed S grew into a beautiful Tree , which is what T stands for . |
| 18 | Hitler himself provided encouragement for such opinion when , in his major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 3 October 1941 , he not only defended the invasion of the Soviet Union as a preventive war , pre-empting in the nick of time a planned Bolshevik assault on the Reich , but also gave the impression that the back of the Soviet fighting capability had already been broken . |
| 19 | The definition does not , for very practical reasons , define caring in terms of time spent or the amount of time a dependant could be left for . |
| 20 | the amount of time a supervisor has to spend with his subordinates , taking into account the demands of his own superiors , other departments and operational/non-managerial work ; |
| 21 | Reducing the amount of time a patient spends in face-to-face contact with relatives with whom he lives in a ‘ high EE ’ environment , or changing their communication styles , will also be protective . |
| 22 | The agreed ratio will reflect a number of considerations , such as : ( a ) the age and experience of each partner ; ( b ) the amount of time a partner is required to devote to the firm ; ( c ) the nature of each partner 's work ( legal aid or private , fee earning only or including a generous proportion of remuneration for office and appointments held ) ; ( d ) the extent to which the profits of separate departments within the firm differ substantially from one another ; ( e ) whether the firm 's policy tends to equality of reward ( and equality would be imposed under the Partnership Act in the absence of some other agreed ratio ) or whether , for example , it attempts to relate profit shares to salaries in comparable employments . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 26 | The prosecution laboured long on the amount of time the whittling had taken which therefore proved considerable premeditation . |
| 27 | The amount of time the property is left unoccupied : Insurance companies recognise that if you are retired , the house is less likely to be burgled than one where the occupants are out at work all day . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The divorce rate also varies by the amount of time the marriage has lasted . |
| 30 | It was n't really the sting of the blows , but the amount of time the thrashing continued that made her burst into a flood of tears . |