Example sentences of "[noun sg] to time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A top source said in Dublin : ‘ It would make sense for the President to time his visit to coincide with the opening of Barrettstown Castle as Paul 's first camp in Europe . |
| 2 | Olaf Pedersen has recently drawn attention to St Paul 's complete indifference to time and chronology : he never even dated his letters . |
| 3 | Of course , the indifference to time generally attributed to medieval people was not absolute . |
| 4 | Many birds which overwinter in equatorial regions rely on a circannual rhythm to time their departure . |
| 5 | A filofax can be more useful than a conventional diary as an aid to time management . |
| 6 | In other words , events are perceived as quick , slow , etc. , and these properties involve a direct reference to time . |
| 7 | Where the entitlement to dividends in respect of non-equity shares is calculated by reference to time , the dividends should be accounted for on an accruals basis . |
| 8 | This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority . |
| 9 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 10 | The attitude to time might tell us what he thinks , but it is the most inscrutable aspect of the novel . |
| 11 | This evaluation of the Egyptians ' attitude to time is borne out by their attitude to chronology . |
| 12 | A far more modern attitude to time and dates was adopted in the Previous century by the famous Italian poet and reviver of classical literature Petrarch ( 1304–74 ) . |
| 13 | His point of view conflicted with the spirit of the age and , despite his example , the glorious art of true fresco died out , its practice being incompatible with the new social attitude to time . |
| 14 | Even the Yorkshire aristocracy seemed to share this carefree attitude to time . |
| 15 | Jobs under the new scheme will command a salary in proportion to time worked . |
| 16 | A civilization which paid particular attention to time but was destined , however , to remain totally isolated from both Europe and Asia until long after its decline — it reached its peak between about AD 600 and 900 — was that of the Maya of Mesoamerica . |
| 17 | Branson had long felt that the greatest drawback to Time Out was its left-wing politics . |
| 18 | By using the moon to time their breeding , the palolo worms ensure that they all spawn simultaneously . |
| 19 | A short continuous crisis , the origins and consequences of which cover a long period , seems to be the double requirement of tragedy and its double relationship to time . |
| 20 | … why should he light up his front lamp to time ? |
| 21 | This allows borrowers more scope to time issues so as to take advantage of temporarily favourable patterns of interest rates such as would permit profitable swaps . |
| 22 | Some preliminary quantitative insights can be obtained by writing the rate of change of hydrogen peroxide with respect to time as : Here k f is the second-order rate coefficient for recombination of HO 2 radicals ( 6.7x10 -12 cm 3 per molecule s -1 at 287K ) and k l is the first-order rate coefficient for physical removal . |
| 23 | ( 2.12 ) with respect to time : So in this case the winding currents undergo a smooth exponential change with time constant 2L/R = 2 ms , as shown in Fig. 2.5. ( b ) . |
| 24 | If the motor is operating at a stepping rate f then the excitation cycle repeats at a frequency 1/4 and therefore the angular frequency of the excitation cycle is : During each excitation cycle the rotor moves one tooth pitch ( =2/p ) in a time 2/w , so the average rotor velocity is given by : Integrating this equation with respect to time : where 6 is a constant of integration known as the load angle . |
| 25 | ( 5.19 ) with respect to time gives the variation of rotor position with time : For a phase current the flux linked with phase A is simply the product of current and inductance : and the rate of change of flux linkages with time is : The first term in this expression is the voltage induced in the phase windings by the rotor motion and the second term arises from the changing current in the phase inductance — Substituting from Eqns — ( 5.17 ) and ( 5.20 ) gives the motional voltage in terms of the phase inductance : Since the phase current , is produced by a switched voltage supply it is non-sinusoidal and therefore , from Eqn . |
| 26 | ( 6.3 ) twice with respect to time and using the initial conditions that at After one period of excitation , 1n , the rotor is at the position , therefore : so the starting rate for the four-phase motor is approximately : As might be expected , the starting rate is improved if the motor has a high torque or the load torque is low . |
| 27 | The supply of labour is assumed to be a fixed fraction of the total population , to be exogenously determined , and to grow exponentially at rate n : or where u denotes time , and L the derivative with respect to time . |
| 28 | The key stages of preparation are to become familiar with all the facts as recorded in key documents , for example correspondence , meeting records , site measurements , wage sheets and plant invoices try to agree the facts with the engineer and/or contractor check the claim is in order with respect to time and/or documentation and that it complies with the contract |
| 29 | All lysosomal enzyme assays were linear with respect to time and protein concentration . |
| 30 | The later stages of evolution are dominated by changes in the pattern of fluctuation with respect to time — from the very regular periodicity considered above towards the irregular fluctuations characteristic of turbulence . |