Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 2 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 3 | The Christian view of time directed to the future , as presented by St Augustine , differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring . |
| 4 | This , he claims , is because of the inherent qualities of the written word writing makes the relationship between a word and its referent more general and abstract , it is less closely connected with the peculiarities of time and place than is the language of oral communication . |
| 5 | The little church has suffered from the rigours of time and town planning , normally a lethal combination , and survived . |
| 6 | as if the office , its panelled walls and rich dark furnishings had been preserved from the rigours of time . |
| 7 | The agreement provided for the price of the petrol ‘ to be agreed by the parties from time to time ’ and failing agreement to be settled by arbitration . |
| 8 | THE TRUE ORIGINS of aromatherapy have evaporated into the mists of time . |
| 9 | Narrowed by the constraints of time . |
| 10 | In consequence his temple was being abandoned to the ravages of Time , who for thousands of shamefaced years had been reluctant to go near the place . |
| 11 | The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time , but disc philosophers agree that the First Men , shortly after their creation , understandably lost their temper . |
| 12 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 13 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 14 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 15 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 16 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 17 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |
| 18 | He needs a final decision by Sunday so that details can be sent to the printers in time for the Chancellor to announce his mini-Budget next Thursday . |
| 19 | He is flying a kite — and good luck to him , but I am sure like me you will not be surprised to find that his kite blows away and is covered by the sands of time . |
| 20 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |