Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of eschatological view of time was , of course , not confined to Islam , for we find it also in Zoroastrianism , Judaism , and early and medieval Christianity . |
| 2 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 3 | John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’ |
| 4 | Running through much of the public debate on voluntary organisations , and not entirely absent from the Wolfenden Report , is the confusion between a non-statutory organisation that provides services and can have significant or even total support from state funds , and the notion of voluntary donations of time or money , which are not exclusively given to non-statutory bodies . |
| 5 | The simultaneous sighting of two periods of time separated by an entire 24 hours seemed a paradox well worth experiencing . |
| 6 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 7 | LIFESPAN permits the definition of two periods of time associated with the verification cycle of the offline system : |
| 8 | Indeed it is our intention that the necessary repair and improvement work on the halls and associated offices will largely be carried out by our own team with a view to reducing costs and encouraging the use of practical gifts of time and skills . |
| 9 | Despite many exquisite passages of florid embellishment in a manner familiar from the earlier works , there is much less of their sense of ecstatic suspension of time . |
| 10 | but I think for people to go and have plastic surgery of that length of time for erm any thing else other than medical reasons |