Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] of [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow it conjures images of smuggling days , perhaps because of its standing as the chief gathering place for the seafarers of former times . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | At least the children were not subjected to the brutal excesses common enough in the collieries of that time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |