Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 2 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 3 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 4 | The Christian view of time directed to the future , as presented by St Augustine , differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring . |
| 5 | In that moment , the Word which touched time and history in Jesus Christ touches them again , and so the original Word itself is heard , leaping across the distances of time which are no barrier or hindrance to the running of the communication from eternity . |
| 6 | It will break through the limitations of time and space . |
| 7 | The unfortunate tragedy was a talking point in the district for several weeks but then slowly receded into the aeons of time . |
| 8 | This , he claims , is because of the inherent qualities of the written word writing makes the relationship between a word and its referent more general and abstract , it is less closely connected with the peculiarities of time and place than is the language of oral communication . |
| 9 | The little church has suffered from the rigours of time and town planning , normally a lethal combination , and survived . |
| 10 | The author of a recent book on the history of clocks and their influence on the modern world has remarked that anyone looking at the techniques of time measurement throughout the world in , say , the eleventh century ‘ would have given odds that the Chinese would develop a mechanical clock well before the Europeans ’ . |
| 11 | The whole complex structure of the liturgy throughout the year orders and enacts believers ' common sense of how an ultimate reality engages with the processes of time : the Mass through the celebration of a corporate sense of all life as a divine gift sustained by processes of death and resurrection ; the office by a daily pattern of worship varying throughout the year to commemorate the significance of the events of the Incarnation and link the activities of the Church in time present with the saints . |
| 12 | as if the office , its panelled walls and rich dark furnishings had been preserved from the rigours of time . |
| 13 | THE TRUE ORIGINS of aromatherapy have evaporated into the mists of time . |
| 14 | With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book . |
| 15 | Narrowed by the constraints of time . |
| 16 | These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 . |
| 17 | In consequence his temple was being abandoned to the ravages of Time , who for thousands of shamefaced years had been reluctant to go near the place . |
| 18 | Group members have to co-operate within the disciplines of time and equal opportunities for participation . |
| 19 | The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time , but disc philosophers agree that the First Men , shortly after their creation , understandably lost their temper . |
| 20 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 21 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 22 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 23 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 24 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 25 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |
| 26 | He is flying a kite — and good luck to him , but I am sure like me you will not be surprised to find that his kite blows away and is covered by the sands of time . |
| 27 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 28 | I did not want her to face the rings that dissolve into the banks of time 's pond when the dead-weight falls to its depths . |
| 29 | Secondly , they should conform to the unities of time , place and action . |