Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children . |
| 2 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 3 | A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows . |
| 4 | They hold debates on a wide variety of topics , some of which are squeezed out of the Commons programme through lack of time . |
| 5 | We think , on principle , that an action does not lie for a compensation to a witness for loss of time in attendance under a subpoena . |
| 6 | ( Totally homogenous capital and labour markets ; constant returns to scale over all ranges of output ; marginal productivity pricing for all factors ; continuously variable relationships between factors over time ; land as an insignificant input . ) |
| 7 | Horses have been favourite subjects for artists from time immemorial-how lovingly is the horse depicted in Rembrandt 's The Polish Rider-but the artist who paid equal attention to dancers and horses was Degas ; he understood the special elegance of the way in which they both moved . |
| 8 | Since Pro-File is a data logger it can log parameters other than those required for it to function as a dive computer ( depth , temperature and air data as functions of time ) . |
| 9 | A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’ |
| 10 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 11 | Data from a questionnaire sent to teachers in the project 's associated schools are then used in a discussion of practical issues relating to the adequacy of resources of time and staffing needed to develop and operate a graduated test scheme . |
| 12 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |
| 13 | Instead , longitudinal studies incorporating a time dimension are also required for supplying historical perspective , together with a sharper appreciation of change through time and the conditions which generate it . |
| 14 | Handicapped school leavers are frequently behind their peers in educational attainment owing to loss of education through time spent either under treatment or overcoming disabilities affecting learning , and they also have special difficulties in finding suitable employment . |
| 15 | The cause is always one of the following : failing to recognise the loss of power in time ; over-reacting and flying into the ground ; opening the airbrakes instead of landing ahead with no airbrake . |
| 16 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | British Commonwealth links , though gossamer thin for most of the time , can become emotional ties of steel in times of crisis , drawing us into unexpected military commitments , as occurred in the Falklands Campaign . |
| 18 | ‘ He came of a crusading line which has held the manor of Templecombe since time immemorial ? ’ |
| 19 | The attractions of home-ownership in times when property prices are falling and also when interest rates are high are that much less , and the Conservative government , which had strongly promoted home-ownership was faced with considerable public disquiet . |
| 20 | Consider a firm which initially has a stock of 100 machines , each of which can produce 50 units of output per time period . |
| 21 | A full cognitive understanding of the constancy of gender across time , space and circumstances is not reached until 8 or 9 years ( Kohlberg 1966 ) , but gender reassignment is usually only possible in the first two or three years ( Money and Ehrhardt 1972 ) . |
| 22 | However , in addition to providing information about the child , an indication of change over time may also be helpful in evaluating the success of previous attempts at remedial intervention . |
| 23 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 24 | Although there was only fragmentary discussion of the matter at the Tenth Session , the United Kingdom view prevailed ; an example perhaps of the effect of shortage of time on the content of international conventions . |
| 25 | There is an additional complication to this picture which is the increasing effect of demand over time . |
| 26 | Further details about the effect of temperature on time periods are given towards the end of the article . |
| 27 | Among these are the completion of assignments on time , attendance for appointments ( including tutorials and examinations ) , undertaking the necessary groundwork for the course — whether in the laboratory , studio or library — and accepting the customary house rules , such as not interrupting ( or barracking ) the lecturers . |
| 28 | It is helpful to analyse how customers perceive the business in each market segment , taking into account matters such as business size , quality of service or product , completion of work on time and within budget , claims record , profitability and level of repeat business , so that buying characteristics and future intentions may be determined . |
| 29 | The beam deflection is then fed to a recorder and a trace of stress against time is obtained . |
| 30 | The cost of smoking to industry results from lost productivity due to sickness absences , impaired productivity due to poor health , and interruption of production from time given to smoking . |