Example sentences of "[prep] his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | A particular problem in and after his time were the ‘ meat fights ’ in the dissecting room . |
| 3 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
| 4 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 5 | From the distance of a century , some of Van Gogh 's enthusiastic appraisals of the art of his time look curious ; but then , this artist acting as a critic was especially vulnerable to admiring art with a moral purpose , or work from which he was able to draw inspiration . |
| 6 | It is not easy to know how far Kafka 's fictions can be thought to answer descriptively to the historical realities of his time , let alone to those which his fictions are often thought to have predicted . |
| 7 | He was as Romantic as any man of his time , and more so than most ; one ideally suited to Leonard 's own deeply Romantic ( and romantic ) strains — imagists both , rather than surrealists . |
| 8 | Poetry still continued to claim much of his time , and several pieces were penned or started such as ‘ Snow Is Falling ’ , written to the music of Ray Charles , Edith Piaf and Nina Simone , among others . |
| 9 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 10 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 11 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 12 | And of such professors , how many would rest content with the conclusion that Pound reached in 1918 : ‘ A critic must spend some of his time asking questions — which perhaps no one can answer . |
| 13 | This is appropriate in more ways than one , since , like McTaggart , Tabner has remained somewhat apart from the more experimental tendencies of his time . |
| 14 | He recently retired as editor of the Eye but he still spends much of his time at the magazine 's cramped offices in Soho . |
| 15 | Keele University acknowledged Michael Akehurst 's position as one of the foremost international lawyers of his time by awarding him a personal chair in February 1989 . |
| 16 | He now spends most of his time in Northern Kenya , where the Moran ( tribesmen ) still cling to tradition , just . |
| 17 | He was influenced by the leading French poets of his time : images seem drawn from Apollinaire 's play , Les Mamelles de Tiresias , including the large white form dominating the left of the canvas which , according to Miro , is a horse . |
| 18 | STOCKHOLM ( UPI , Reuter ) — A Norwegian professor , Trygve Haavelmo , 78 , described as a humble man who spends much of his time in seclusion at his mountain cottage , was awarded the 1989 Nobel Economics Prize for pioneering use of mathematical statistics to interpret economic data . |
| 19 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 20 | This role he discharged with great success and it was probably the most notable feature of his time as Treasury Solicitor . |
| 21 | COCTEAU , poet , painter , novelist , playwright , muralist , designer and film maker , whose centenary it is this year and whose ceramics are on show at the David Gill gallery in west London , was also one of the wittiest dressers of his time . |
| 22 | Yet he had to spend hours of his time learning Greek iambic verse as a punishment for being rude to a master in a political debate . |
| 23 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 24 | Every moment therefore of his time was dedicated either to preparing or to giving lectures . |
| 25 | His being ‘ the Matthew Arnold of his time ’ again connects , through the scarecrow image , with the Hollow Men who , like so many of Eliot 's literary adversaries , are afflicted with a stuffed language , emptily ‘ poetic ’ , the degradation of great poetry — |
| 26 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 27 | Today , Finniston runs his own small firm ( small by comparison with British Steel at any rate ) , but at least fifty per cent of his time is now taken up with interests outside the corporate world . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 29 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 30 | Engels 's general argument concerning marriage and the family applies to his discussion of the status of women , and again his position seems very much in advance of his time . |