Example sentences of "[det] given time " in BNC.

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1 But McNab continued as he always had , grave and rather lugubrious , knowing that given time , the " cholera cloud " would move on , too , and that his own view would come to be accepted but this would only happen imperceptibly and not , perhaps , like a cloud passing , but more in the way that sediment settles in a glass of muddy water .
2 A resident of the rainforests of the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi , Buru Taliabu and Mangole , the babirusa may be the only animal in the world that given time , can gore itself to death .
3 Papers have been written on " The significance of the rare event in geology " and one must never forget the significance of the old truism that given time , the rare event becomes a probability and given enough time , it becomes a certainty .
4 Some receivers appointed in such situation have opted to run the businesses themselves , in the hope that given time , the market for public houses and inns will improve .
5 That given time , they would be a self-supporting but those of us , there was Axminster , there was Exeter , there was Exmouth er , they 've all got them
6 They 're pleased with the training and education programmes already up and running , and say that given time to develop them further , things will settle down .
7 The training environment for this must always be an 8m x 8m ( 9.5yd x 9.5 yd ) area , and you should practise until you are sure of your position within it at any given time .
8 Morality , Sir Monty points out , is an integral part of a society 's culture at any given time in its history , and in his view our moral conditions have changed radically .
9 Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time .
10 Evidence of how the properties of these metals were manipulated can indicate the technical level of a society at any given time .
11 At the British Telecom satellite station at Goonhilly in Cornwall at any given time there are more than 30,000 separate circuits in use while the new fibre-optical cable laid across the Atlantic in December 1988 can handle up to 40,000 separate conversations .
12 ‘ The political stance adopted by a class at any given time will be i part a function of the structure of the political system as whole and the concrete possibilities which exist in a specific situation for the application of various kinds of class alliances ’ ( Roxborough 1979 : 82 ) .
13 But it may yield an agreement to establish a constitutional framework most likely to lead to the pursuit of well-founded ideals , given the information available at any given time .
14 The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time .
15 Judgement of price is a difficult matter , for it requires an awareness of the pricing structure of publishing which has produced a given price at any given time .
16 When the fish are very big , and the shoal small , only one or two bream will make an appearance at any given time .
17 You can not attack an ‘ enemy ’ unless you know where in his environment you can find him at any given time , and the best techniques , properly applied , are needed to bring about his downfall .
18 It is about educating pupils ( and how rarely are they mentioned in recent major legislation ! ) effectively and efficiently based on the school 's own unique needs and priorities at any given time .
19 His objectives were to give a guide to the better choice of an animal ; to establish the true conformation of the racehorse , setting a standard for an ideal animal to achieve maximum speed , and at any given time to discover whether the breeds had improved or degenerated .
20 There are terminal and microcomputer facilities at all four campuses , with over 3000 students registered at any given time for use of the central DEC VAX range of computers .
21 There are terminal and microcomputer facilities at all four campuses , with over 3000 students registered at any given time for use of the central DEC VAX range of computers .
22 Fashions change at an alarming rate and at any given time experts hold differing views .
23 At any given time of the year , there are always likely to be some workers who are temporarily laid off because of a seasonal fall in demand for their services .
24 However good diagnostic skills and experience are not uniformly available amongst staff at any given time due to a variety of factors .
25 The Irish Acts of Union did not prohibit the creation of new peers of Ireland but imposed a limit of 100 at any given time .
26 There are , at any given time , laws which Parliament will render it profoundly unpopular throughout the electorate or even , more particularly , its own party .
27 Equally , there are , at any given time , laws which , if passed , could not be rendered effective , e.g. because they affected matters outside the jurisdiction of United Kingdom administrative or enforcement agencies .
28 I would guess that we all occasionally promise ourselves some lessons , in deference to the particular brick wall we feel is impeding our progress at any given time .
29 I 'm not being one of them at any given time , because that is so stupid .
30 There are now enough people , especially on the Tory side , with a vested interest in the methodology of politics , many of them at any given time out in the cold , to make the lives of incumbents difficult .
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