Example sentences of "in [adj] times [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew about the river ; in different times might have worked on it , happily and well . |
| 2 | The canny squire in medieval times would keep one ear open to what the messengers and washerwomen were saying and would be careful to drop hints to other knights about how much he admired them . |
| 3 | Apart from their vital role in the present , much of the photographic history written in future times will be based on these magazines . |
| 4 | Reconstruction in Victorian times may have rendered the building even more forbidding . |
| 5 | At Broomy Hill , one mile west of the city centre , is the Herefordshire Waterworks Museum , where the processes involved in a public water supply in Victorian times can be seen . |
| 6 | Drinks before dinner are spent in bizarre oscillation between an Essex taxi-driver advancing his theories on the need for a return of the ‘ glasshouse ’ for young offenders , and a syrupy smooth young Etonian on the Turnbull and Asser wing of the party who in previous times might have glided effortlessly into a constituency . |
| 7 | She was a big , handsome woman , a larger Grace with a noble bum , by which Grunte in happier times might well have been tempted . |
| 8 | But rules that strengthen banks in good times can cripple them in recessions . |
| 9 | With such a carefully structured order , village life and farming in good times could be free from drought and civil disturbance , be secure and highly profitable , particularly for the thegn . |
| 10 | ‘ People are selling off unwanted peripherals which in better times might have been bought by a trade buyer . |
| 11 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 12 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 13 | Exceptional victories by the youth XV , the U19s and U21s in recent times will be reflected in the long term . |
| 14 | As narrow gauge steam locomotives have proved impossible to find in this country , contact has been made with the authorities in Poland where extensive closures of their systems in recent times will provide examples . |
| 15 | That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom . |