Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts of Darwinism are capable of scientific verification , whereas the beliefs of religion are based on ancient writings , which , all through the centuries of civilised time have been contentious . |
| 2 | Because one of the beauties of this time was his apparent ( or indeed real ) lack of motive . |
| 3 | Rain fell heavily all day to add to the misery of people who came in the shop , many of whom had lived through the Great War , and told Anne some of the horrors of that time . |
| 4 | For a nation of radicals and independents such as France , the creation of the Union Sacrée whereby men of all political hues submerged their feuds in the interests of national unity was one of the miracles of all time . |
| 5 | The historian is entitled to regard the matter of leadership as an ‘ issue ’ in the minds of the men of this time . |
| 6 | It was lack of emergency cover combined with the pressures of limited time that largely dictated the period of the year when training was undertaken . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 8 | The wonderfully poised opening of Op. 2 No. 10 is perhaps my favourite , mysteriously emerging from the mists of forgotten time to awaken our imaginations . |
| 9 | If it is the case that what teachers need to know , and to experience , can not be continued within the limits of available time , then either that time must be extended , or some part of what is traditionally included must be curtailed or omitted or postponed to in-service training . |
| 10 | This movement , which though tiny in real time is immense in the aeons of geological time , is wholly responsible for the other dramatic features of the Pacific . |
| 11 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 12 | At least the children were not subjected to the brutal excesses common enough in the collieries of that time . |
| 13 | His patronage may have seemed essential to the architects of that time , although corporate clients were emerging , such as Poor Law Boards , or boards of directors of railway companies . |
| 14 | Since higher education is currently exam oriented and likely to remain so even under SCOTCATS it is recommended that SCOTVEC and institutions of higher education jointly undertake an urgent review of modular certificates in order to discover ways in which these could be made to relate more effectively to the demands of full time higher education . |
| 15 | Among the painters of this time to note are Antonín Manés , whose fine Romantic landscapes are signed ‘ Bohemus ’ , and the landscapes and still-lifes of Josef Navrátil who also painted house interiors . |
| 16 | Basically , it reduces to the realization that man 's gelada-like past — which must have lasted for a very considerable period , even by the standards of evolutionary time — left an indelible stamp on both his id and his ego . |
| 17 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |