Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Karen 's lust for certainty increased , she threw in tantalising little snippets , altering some of the details from time to time . |
| 2 | The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail . |
| 3 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 4 | There was , however , sufficient overlap between his illustrative and painted work for one to fertilise the other ; many of the drawings for Time Was Away afterwards provided the basis for paintings . |
| 5 | masur is flexible with the tempi at times , but as a devotee of Jochum 's best Bruckner performances I do n't have any quarrel with this . |
| 6 | It must also have provided opportunities for men to meet regularly to discuss politics , and such discussions , and the attitude of those in the shires in times of crisis , may often have centred on how far they thought the king and his officials were living up to what was expected of them . |
| 7 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect I shall get used to the designs in time . |
| 9 | Perhaps an organism as complex as a man could never be wholly impervious to the ravages of time . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , most of the residents of Times Beach , south eastern Misouri , have been evacuated . |
| 11 | In chapter thirty Hilton 's analysis of the process of reformation of feeling comes to a climax as he brings together the implications of his analysis and imagery in a synthesis embodying his full sense of the process of contemplative life as lived discovery of the meaning of the Incarnation.The experience of the darkness reveals to the soul its essence which is that its being does not inhere in the dimensions of time : " for soule is no body bot a lif vnseable " ( 30.102r. – 252 ) and has its own mode of knowing that is not entirely dependent on bodily senses or imagination . |
| 12 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |