Example sentences of "one [noun sg] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |
| 2 | Because the infant is unwanted by one or two people at one point in time does not qualify it for extermination . |
| 3 | Compared with the measurement of alkalinisation and salinisation , whose samples of soil can be easily gathered at one point in time and the electrical conductivity of saturation extracts gauged , the measurement of soil loss is more demanding . |
| 4 | The chronic sickness rate is a point prevalence rate , telling us how many people report long-standing health problems at one point in time . |
| 5 | For this reason , something that is accepted as a satisfactory causal explanation at one point in time can become problematic at another . |
| 6 | Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date . |
| 7 | Because the data comes from a survey conducted at one point in time , we can not tell if the relationship is conditional upon age or period , however . |
| 8 | Management should effect redundancies at one point in time rather than spreading them over a long period . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most distinguishing features of psychological approaches to the study of human development are the assumption of underlying continuities between behaviours at different points in the lifespan , and the attempt to understand how interactions between the individual and the environment at one point in time make possible more elaborate interactions at some later point in time . |
| 10 | For this reason , developmental psychologists frequently introduce descriptions of mental models , cognitive representations or conceptual understanding to provide a link between the kinds of learning which may have occurred at one point in time and the relatively sophisticated behaviours which are subsequently observed . |
| 11 | However , development is never static , and therefore an assessment at one point in time is an artificially frozen ‘ snapshot ’ of a dynamic process . |
| 12 | An alternative to concurrent validity involves comparing a test score at one point in time with another measure of language performance obtained sometime subsequently . |
| 13 | The consequence of all this for a study of comparative industrial relations is that international differences can not be understood solely in terms of cross-sectional analysis at any one point in time . |
| 14 | A guidance episode necessarily takes place at one point in time within the developing skills and experience of the client . |
| 15 | Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time . |
| 16 | It is neither possible nor desirable to fix any language at one point in time and keep it the same ever afterwards . |
| 17 | Thus , one large contract caterer in a northern city with a high unemployment rate , whose casuals consisted almost entirely of otherwise unemployed people , estimated that as many as four times the number of people passed through its list of those available for casual work in the course of a year than were on that list at any one point in time . |
| 18 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 19 | Jung suggested that there might be an acausal connecting principle linking everything in the universe at any one point in time : he called it synchronicity . |
| 20 | It may be questioned whether or not the user needs to retrieve all of the possible relevant documents for a specific query at any one point in time . |
| 21 | And André was in his element , enjoying the buzzing atmosphere around him the way she had used to at one point in time . |
| 22 | On a fine summer weekend only about 8–10% of berth-holders are out at any one point in time . |
| 23 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 24 | In an attempt to do justice to the complexity of opinions , the research comprises three parts : a national attitude survey , to determine the structure of attitudes at one point in time ; follow-up interviews with a small number of respondents to the national survey , in which the experience of using various welfare services is being explored in detail ; and the re-analysis of information from previous surveys on similar topics , to see whether attitudes have changed much in recent years . |
| 25 | It is a snapshot at one point in time and is therefore only relevant to that point in time . |
| 26 | Answer guide : This question has been designed to illustrate the business entity principle , the fact that a balance sheet represents a snapshot at one point in time and some of the difficulties encountered in deciding what should be included in a balance sheet . |
| 27 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 28 | In other words , if we want to compare the size of the money stock at one point in time ( M st ) with that of a previous point in time ( M st-1 ) , we have to look at the flow ( change ) of money between those two points |
| 29 | So in any one point in time the movement is going to depend on identifying exactly where you are at the moment in terms of any of the cycles and where it is you want to get to in relation to , to a particular situation facing you . |
| 30 | It was the most glaring example of the arbitrary choice of any particular chronological age — in fact one moment in time — to exclude people from participation , services or benefits . |