Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more important is the fact that Mr Constantin Oancea , the man who dealt with Hungarian relations at the Romanian foreign ministry in Ceausescu 's time , has not only remained in post but appears to have been promoted . |
| 2 | English mistrust of Ireland , even though the rhetoric between 1600 and 1990 seems similar , is based on different conceptions from Spenser 's time . |
| 3 | Today he would have had a tape recorder : did he , like Dickens , at least have shorthand , a not unknown writerly aid since Cicero 's time ? |
| 4 | He would stand and stare into the darkness trying to see the old ruins of Caesar 's time , but not tonight , the mist was too thick . |
| 5 | Some 5% of user 's time , he claims , is spent in such tasks as backing up a network , and such factors end up costing as much as the original system itself . |
| 6 | They first appeared in the Old World during Sigmar 's time , when a whole band crossed the Worlds Edge Mountains and conquered the other Orcs that lived in the hills to the northwest of Stirland . |
| 7 | So , for example , Bitstream 's Dutch may appear to be a perfect match for Linotype 's Times at 300dpi but when they are output at a typesetter 's resolution the minute differences will be more exaggerated . |
| 8 | This is because much of the central district in Somoza 's time collapsed in the massive 1972 earthquake : Somoza and his clique embezzled most of the international aid given to rebuild the city and so its central area remained in ruins . |
| 9 | Treatment along similar lines in groups can be a means of making the maximal use of therapists ' time ( Temple and Catalan 1977 ) . |
| 10 | Why should the Roman Church in Constantine 's time have adopted such a position , theologically so scandalous ? |
| 11 | Here , visitors can ride through the magical green-woods of Robin 's time , try their hand at archery and feast under the ‘ Greenwode Tree ’ . |
| 12 | He knows that the pursuit of status can consume vast amounts of people 's time and efforts with the negative result of demoralizing everyone around . |
| 13 | In the current commuting age , when there are diverse calls on people 's time and energies and the countryside is constantly under pressure from urban development , the village community is anxious to retain the village 's rural character , whilst acknowledging the need to attract and maintain a balanced community . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the Polish nobility that had led the national movement in Marx 's time had yielded power in Poland to a new rising capitalist class and settled for privileges guaranteed by the Tsar . |
| 15 | Runner-up David Broome — at 51 proving he is still a major world threat — could only get to within just under three seconds of Bost 's time . |
| 16 | A great deal of Alison 's time recently has been spent on the launch of the Income Protection and Critical Protection contracts . |
| 17 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 18 | Before rebuilding , an archaeological excavation was carried out by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust which established by radio-carbon dating that the site had been used as a burial ground for about one thousand years before Melangell 's time . |
| 19 | I mean we could rejig things and charge sort of sixty or seventy percent of Rachel 's time against the graduates and then charge that back off |
| 20 | The great advance in Mozart 's time was operas set in the here and now . |
| 21 | It originated probably with St Bernard in the late 1140s or early 1150s in his address to the first Cistercian pope , Eugenius III , whom he calls " vicar " and " vicar of Christ " , but it had only been employed domestically within papal circles before Innocent 's time . |
| 22 | Canterbury was certainly not moving in the direction of Cistercian austerity in Anselm 's time . |
| 23 | The result of this ‘ fretting ’ against the English language and its accepted forms — a continuing experience during Joyce 's time in Trieste , Zurich and Paris — appears in the range of parodies in Ulysses and the revolutionary linguistic of Finnegans Wake . |
| 24 | There are heavy demands on people 's time these days and a lot of rival attractions . |
| 25 | In the same way , all examinations make considerable demands on teachers ' time in terms of involvement in Examination Board work , running examinations in school and subsequently marking them ; but an examination like GCSE , with radically new features , is likely to involve considerably more time over the next few years for teachers to become able and proficient in its procedures . |
| 26 | The greatest names in Judaic thought in Jesus 's time — the famous teacher Hillel , for example — were Pharisees . |
| 27 | The greatest pressure in Monday 's time trial will be on the yellow jersey . |
| 28 | ( See further p. 266 for Thessalian cavalry in Alexander 's time . ) |
| 29 | This type of simplistic explanation of primitive societies has dogged Marxist anthropology since Engels 's time . |
| 30 | That is , after all , just what , according to the dominant philosophy of Hutcheson 's time ( that of John Locke ) such so-called secondary qualities as colour , sound and smell are . |