Example sentences of "[adj] in modern time " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge . |
| 2 | But there was speculation that the sixteen-foot olos of their Hawaiian predecessors had been capable of scaling the monstrous waves , fifty feet and more , that boil and boom off Kaena Point and remain untested in modern times . |
| 3 | The biotic record and the sedimentary history of Upper Permian sequences throughout southern Africa and beyond document palaeogeographic settings unparalleled in modern times . |
| 4 | The aim of the legislation is to ensure that , so far as possible , shopkeepers and shop assistants do not have to work on Sunday : see Stoke-on-Trent City Council v. B. & Q. Plc. [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , 66 , per Hoffmann J. But the prohibition against Sunday trading has become controversial in modern times . |
| 5 | The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality . |
| 6 | Right or wrong , Chomsky 's theory of grammar has been undoubtedly the most dynamic and influential in modern times . |
| 7 | This is so ludicrous it is laughable in modern times . |
| 8 | To be a Foodie requires self-absorption , self-love , self-delusion , self-confidence ; in other words selfishness to a degree unsurpassed in modern times . |