Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 2 | Then he arose and took leave of the people , weeping plenteously , and returned to the Alcazar , and betook himself to his bed , and never rose from it again ; and every day he waxed weaker and weaker , till seven days only remained of the time appointed . |
| 3 | The land is rich in wildlife and many plants still survive from the time when the area was marsh . |
| 4 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
| 5 | But for those departments and individuals who received them , they have been vital and they have paid off in ways not expected at the time of the award . |
| 6 | It was bold because it conflicted with theories generally accepted at the time , theories that included the assumption that electromagnetic systems ( magnets , charged bodies , current-carrying conductors , etc. ) act upon each other instantaneously across empty space and that electromagnetic effects can be propagated at a finite velocity only through material substances . |
| 7 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |