Example sentences of "the [noun] in [art] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there really anything in common between what was understood by the term in the time of Plato and Pericles and the meaning or meanings given to it nearly two and a half thousand years later ? |
| 2 | One may cite not only the case of the group already mentioned which felt itself to have been ill-treated at the hands of Civizade , but also the experience of Kadiri Celebi , the Mufti in the time of Suleyman , who spent nine years in great hardship as a before receiving an appointment , probably at the beginning of the second decade of the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | But what of the farmers expected to carry out the work in a time of recession . |
| 4 | It has been shown above that the accepted Turkish tradition dates the beginning of the Muftilik in the time of Murad II ( 1421–51 ) and names Molla Fenari as the first Mufti . |
| 5 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 6 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 7 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 8 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 9 | Finally , pneumatic drills have been sparingly employed to uncover the surface of the main road into the town built during the expansion of the city in the time of Domitian . |
| 10 | Catherine Coey was the first woman to cross the line in a time of 45min 57sec . |
| 11 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |