Example sentences of "time and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having elaborated the paradoxical conditions of historicity , of any history or totalization , Derrida himself has been particularly concerned to analyse those such as Husserl , Heidegger or Levinas , who have been involved in investigations of time and temporality . |
| 2 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 3 | After the death last year of Steve Ross , the controversial mogul who merged Time and Warner in 1989 , Mr Levin laboured day and night to seal the deal . |
| 4 | Questions about possible friction between the disparate corporate cultures of Time and Warner have been current ever since the merger . |
| 5 | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp has reported fourth quarter net profits up 37.4% at $5.5m , after $326,000 extraordinary credits this time and $393,000 last time , on turnover up 19.8% at $47m ; net profit for the year to December 25 was down 29.4% at $7.6m , after $709,000 extraordinary credits this time and $1.3m last time , on turnover up 2.6% to $7.6m . |
| 6 | ALC Communications Corp saw first quarter net up 558.2% at $21.5m , after $13.5m gains from the cumulative effect of an accounting change this time and $1.3m tax credits last time , on sales up 10.6% to $101.8m . |
| 7 | Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc saw third quarter net losses of $6.6m against profits of $3.4m last time , after $2.4m gains from the early payment of debentures last time , on turnover that fell 12.7% at $54.8m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $31.6m against profits of $6.8m last time , after $20.5m restructuring charges this time and $3.6m gains from the early payment of debentures last time , on turnover that fell by 4.3% to $179.1m . |
| 8 | It 's the expression of a negative dynamic , in which the cycle of action and reaction between teacher and pupil seems only to confirm the pupil in the disruptive role and of escalating sanctions which consume energy , time and morale in large amounts . |
| 9 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 10 | It lay around the office for a day or two , until someone had time to open it and send it back with a brief note , giving the time and circumstances of Elsie 's death . |
| 11 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 12 | We would go to Middleton Carnival with them when time and circumstances permitted , and one lovely June day we went to High force and had a picnic . |
| 13 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
| 14 | Andy Payton and Stuart Slater showed , for example , that they may now have come to terms with the tribal ritual that is entitled to pass their understanding until time and circumstances dictate that they become as wound up as the rest . |
| 15 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 16 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 17 | The lengthy period which most party leaders have already spent in Parliament before gaining office certainly gives them time and opportunity to acquire suitable skills . |
| 18 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 19 | In 1988 , he received a death threat at his home with a skull and cross-bones reading , ‘ It 's just a question of time and opportunity , but we 'll get you . ’ |
| 20 | There is evidence to suggest that young swains showed interest from time to time but were probably defeated by lack of time and opportunity on the one hand and by Hannah 's shy , reserved nature on the other . |
| 21 | Spain 's dominant classes were therefore permitted the time and opportunity for marshalling their powerful opposition to the very measures that were intended to weaken them . |
| 22 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 23 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 24 | She had relied on having time and opportunity to confide in him , and set his mind at rest about the unexpected summons . |
| 25 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 26 | Bearing in mind the well-documented history on the question of having a fully-licensed establishment within our village the Chairman of the Council has asked me to request a postponement of any final decision in order to give time and opportunity for full consultation and for any resulting meaningful comments to be submitted . |
| 27 | the final item could include all the performers if there is time and opportunity to organise it — failing that play your trump card with a really stunning item to finish . |
| 28 | Symbol is part of the language of drama : " The way in which the teacher draws attention to the symbol ( gesture , word , object etc. ) generates a collective meaning and also gives time and opportunity for the participant to endow that symbol with his or her individual meaning . " |
| 29 | The kind of information relevant to users depends on the nature of their assignment or course , whether there is time and opportunity to use resources or whether the database is seen as the information source . |
| 30 | Anacomp Inc has reported first quarter net profit down 57.5% at $2m , after $363,000 losses from discontinued operations this time and $467,000 losses last time , and $700,000 tax credits this time and $1.4m last time , on turnover that fell 3.7% to $141.2m . |