Example sentences of "[prep] modern time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 2 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |
| 3 | When he found out , he contacted the Diocese of London 's lawyers , who helped to prepare the paperwork : getting a licence seemed to be just a formality — in modern times it was practically unheard-of for a faculty to be refused . |
| 4 | In modern times it was used as a glue from about 1800 in Germany and Switzerland . |
| 5 | In the past , that wholeness was to be found in the college or the institution and its organic community , but in modern times it tends to be located in the subject-department , which becomes in Burke 's phrase the ‘ little platoon ’ which provides the student with his or her identity , base and purpose ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ If you are comparing it to modern times it 's quite different . |