Example sentences of "from [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Rannoch is a wild place , full of wild stories from turbulent times of Scottish history , and Joicey Munro left his mark . |
2 | From that time on it was easier to spot . |
3 | From that time he was dedicated , a marked man . |
4 | From that time , I will be obliged to pay off an ever-increasing student loan . |
5 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
6 | By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time , mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour . |
7 | Just before a tyro Pat Pocock played his first Test there , over 21 years ago , Tom Graveney cruelly pointed to the Bridgetown sightscreen and said to the tremulous off-spinner : ‘ Oh , look lad , it 's still peppered with those little red dots from that time Clyde Walcott got after Jim Laker ten years ago . |
8 | From that time on , she began to avoid that gesture ( it is not easy to break the habit of gestures altogether ) . |
9 | From that time on , it seemed as though I loathed myself and looked for ways to punish my body . |
10 | From that time I had a wall to lean my back on . |
11 | From that time , he was to direct her education , and to try to instil in her an awareness of statecraft and of the political circumstances and problems not only of her adopted country but of her kingdom . |
12 | He ordered all the Lombard dukes to pay homage to him at Pavia , and from that time onwards was known as ‘ King of the Franks and Lombards , Roman Patrician ’ . |
13 | Gradually from that time , there was greater chance for ordinary members of the public to see for themselves , and learn to read themselves , the various written words . |
14 | Such was this verse of mine dating from that time : |
15 | From that time on , the photosynthesizing organisms emerged as the predominant life forms , and the atmosphere was altered by the increasing out-pouring of oxygen , until it reached its present state . |
16 | From that time onwards they simply diverted their genuine traffic through other circuits and then arranged to send carefully prepared disinformation over the tapped lines . |
17 | It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy . |
18 | ‘ So , you know of no one from that time who would have wished your husband dead ? ’ |
19 | From that time the influences were to be more European than English or colonial . |
20 | The first sections of the Colombo to Kandy railway were opened in 1865 , and from that time there was continuous railway-building on the island until the 1920s . |
21 | Many physicians from that time forward were of the opinion that nearly all the late complications of syphilis were , in fact , the result of mercury poisoning . |
22 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
23 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
24 | From that time onwards each republic , and even each autonomous province , could select its own top officials , judges , prosecutors , and policemen . |
25 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
26 | From that time onwards , when other children were out playing , they were practising their tennis and improving their game . |
27 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
28 | From the beginning of the reign of King Richard I in 1189 the method was revived and , from that time onwards , has been the accepted way of expressing the year date in civil government and other documents ; the form being , for example , that names of signatories are subscribed or the seal affixed ‘ this first day of July in the Thirtyseventh year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second … and in the year of Our Lord One thousand and nine hundred and eighty eight . ’ |
29 | There are many manuscripts dating from that time , and a few from the earlier period , starting 1140 . |
30 | Society of Jesus Archive ( London ) The Jesuit mission to England began in 1580 and some of the archive material dates from that time . |