Example sentences of "their [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 2 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 3 | Foucault therefore abandons analysis of epistemes for the more Nietzschean ‘ genealogy ’ , which allows him to articulate conflict in terms of differentiated histories with their own conceptual specificities and their own times , while retaining the possibility of the formulation of aims and intentions : |
| 4 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 5 | These three ninth-century writers purveyed a similar message in their own times to audiences made up wholly or in part of lay nobles . |
| 6 | A river flowed near to Bavduin , and each night the dead came to the water on their journey back to the cold earth of their own times and lands . |
| 7 | This directive encourages officers to research and study in their own time and lists suitable subjects , which include ‘ public administration , management studies , economics , law , criminology , social sciences , youth work , English language and literature and relevant modern languages ’ . |
| 8 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses — farmers can use it to do their accounts , women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors , publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on . |
| 9 | However , the more popular recipe is empathy , achieved by having the patience to allow the complainant sufficient time to air the problem ( reinforcing the importance of allowing neighbourhood police autonomy to manage their own time ) , coupled with displays of sympathy , understanding , and even agreement . |
| 10 | This , I think , is a clear example of the way Bible writers filled out the past quite boldly , introducing modifications from their own time . |
| 11 | They both allow people to choose their own time horizons , which can be anything from two to 25 years . |
| 12 | The event also required school teachers giving up their own time for youngsters . |
| 13 | 16.32 Teachers should encourage pupils to read independently in their own time , and to discuss with others their own favourite reading . |
| 14 | In their own time they were often called ‘ Condition of England Novels ’ , because they addressed themselves directly to the state of the nation . |
| 15 | But perhaps more generally women find their own retirement easier because they have had to organize their own time for most of their lives and have relied more on the small pleasures of domestic life . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 17 | They can then absorb the literature in their own time and make up their own minds . |
| 18 | Individuals should also have the right to choose their own time of retirement . |
| 19 | Allow him or her to rest for a while to ‘ come round ’ in their own time . |
| 20 | Finally governors recognised that a fully established committee structure might involve an unreasonable amount of their own time . |
| 21 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 22 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 23 | Babies like to dictate their own time , and why should n't they ? ’ |
| 24 | Babies like to arrive at their own time , Celia recalled her gynaecologist saying . |
| 25 | Fangorn agrees when he says of his own dying species , ‘ songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way , and sometimes they are withered untimely ’ . |
| 26 | So an essential skill of counselling is to avoid completely the giving of advice , and to allow counsellees to take what eventually must be their responsibility to arrive at their own decision , in their own time and in their own way . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 28 | Your managers work in their own time , so there 's no need to disrupt busy work schedules . |
| 29 | In their own time , the Ministry members listen to C&W — Buck Owens , Loretta Lynn , George Jones and Lefty Fritzell . |
| 30 | Before , they used to count their breaks in the twelve hours , now their breaks are in their own time . |