Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the assumptions of the programme , however , had not withstood the test of time , and there were elements of ‘ detachment from reality , undue anticipation and unnecessary detail ’ . |
| 2 | But in a judgment at Jedburgh Sheriff Court yesterday , Sheriff James Paterson accepted a plea on Neil 's behalf that the charges were incompetent because the prosecution had not served the complaint in time . |
| 3 | MOST BOOKS on branch lines record enterprises that have not stood the test of time and are no longer with us . |
| 4 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |
| 5 | If some of Hoppé 's portraits and genre pictures have not stood the test of time , his influence on his contemporaries , his restless experimentation , his role in helping to found the London Salon of Photography , and his nineteen books made him an important figure in the history of twentieth-century photography . |
| 6 | In consumer matters these rights have not stood the test of time , and in modern economic conditions , Britain and other Western nations have had to introduce numerous statutory regulations to clarify and indeed strengthen the rights of individual consumers . |
| 7 | The arguments had not stood the test of time too well , but it ended pithily enough : ‘ What the working man wants from the war is work . ’ |
| 8 | The performances have not stood the test of time ; a successor would be very welcome . |
| 9 | As science had gradually eroded the freedom of time , so it had eroded the freedom of belief . |
| 10 | In the winter , the Government were driven to the desperation of calling upon alchemy — ’ what Disraeli once called the alchemy of time . ’ |
| 11 | And while some politicians point to falling numbers of hospital beds as an illustration of NHS cash cuts , Mr Akehurst says this drop reflects advances in surgical technology which have dramatically reduced the amount of time people need to stay in hospital . |
| 12 | Have n't stood the test of time . |
| 13 | Finally , there are two general principles of delegation that have certainly stood the test of time . |