Example sentences of "of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 2 | I suspect it is no accident the politics of the times seems to parallel the growing toughness of the police image , or that the police have taken on an increasing resemblance to the black-clothed enemies of goodness who sprinkle the popular science fantasy films such as Star Wars , Superman , and the like . |
| 3 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 4 | All three are — or , in the case of railways , have become — essentially light catering markets ; and in such markets profitability , the watchword of the times , calls for selling made-up products like plate meals or filled rolls , rather than retail lines like chocolate bars where the scope for mark-up is obviously small . |
| 5 | It is evident in a curious book , edited by Stephen Heath , Colin MacCabe , and Christopher Prendergast and published in Cambridge in the early 1970s : Signs of the Times : Introductory Readings in Textual Semiotics . |
| 6 | MacCabe and Heath had studied in Paris , and Signs of the Times has its niche in postwar cultural history , marking the first major re-entry of French intellectual influences since Eliot 's adherence to Remy de Gourmont and the French neoclassicists , half a century earlier . |
| 7 | It is the business of the head of the established church to express his worries about the state of the nation and the moral mood of the times . |
| 8 | A stance which was appropriate for the Age of Brezhnev and Galtieri now seems out of date and out of touch with the spirit of the times . |
| 9 | It will audit 175 out of The Times top 1,000 companies and 67 out of The Times top 500 financial companies . |
| 10 | It will audit 175 out of The Times top 1,000 companies and 67 out of The Times top 500 financial companies . |
| 11 | In an impromptu press conference outside , Mr Gorbachev said : ‘ If states do n't react to impulses of the times , they are in danger . ’ |
| 12 | On the other hand , Stanley Morison , responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s , was not an adroit penman — he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition . |
| 13 | Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , asked whether it was not damaging to devote so much space to the attack , said : ‘ This conference should be discussing why this bankrupt policy is n't working . |
| 14 | CORRECTION The statement attributed to Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , saying that Chancellor of the Exchequer should have let the pound drop lower , was in fact made by Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail . |
| 15 | A statement on page two of The Independent yesterday , attributed to Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , saying that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have let the pound drop lower , was in fact made by Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail . |
| 16 | A nostalgia has become apparent , after an era of aggressive atheism , either for the great organized beliefs or for substitutes chiming better with the would-be freer spirit of the times . |
| 17 | The correspondent of The Times in Riga , with access to both current Western and Soviet sources , picked up the discrepant views of M. Litvinov at the Hague and L. Krasin , the Commissar for Trade in Moscow . |
| 18 | The long , sometimes violent , dispute with the print unions over the relocation of The Times plant at Wapping marked a notable step both in the new financial and technological independence of the press and its ideological separateness from the union-corporate approach of the past . |
| 19 | One sign of the times was that Lord Young of Dartington , a founder member of the SDP in 1981 , moved back to rejoin the Labour Party . |
| 20 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 21 | Television and the popular press are even more likely to accentuate the pattern of The Times reporting . |
| 22 | Both Lloyd George and Churchill were helped by the fact that their style suited the temper of the times . |
| 23 | The King hoped next to see Baldwin , but the Conservative leader could not be found : he was , ironically , lunching with Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of The Times , and discussing Cabinet appointments — something he found easier to do with Dawson than with his party colleagues . |
| 24 | It was , however , Geoffrey Dawson , editor of The Times , who , in an editorial on 16 September , was the first to suggest that the National Government itself , and not the parties separately , should make an appeal to the country ‘ on a broad programme of reconstruction which will include a tariff ’ . |
| 25 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 26 | Physical decay is setting in at 38 for Duran and 33 for Leonard , yet in the most hazardous of sports they persist , in the fashion of the times , in trying to defy the ageing process . |
| 27 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 28 | Mr Griffiths is the music critic of the Times and has written several books on music , including a study of Olivier Messiaen . |
| 29 | Mass-produced ephemera is a regular feature of the times . |
| 30 | It 's a sign of the times that pop-as-reinvention-of-the-self is something that resonates for fewer and fewer people in the world that is the music press readership . |