Example sentences of "in the [noun] of time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
2 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
3 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
4 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
5 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
6 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
7 | In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks . |
8 | In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies . |
9 | Maybe in the course of time she will show me all these marvels . " |
10 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |
11 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
12 | In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over . |
13 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
14 | Doubtless their minds are uncluttered by the thought that in the fullness of time they themselves will appear on the list . |
15 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
16 | And the likelihood is that in the fullness of time they 'll be the preferred supplier , and they 'll be also supplying the gear bearing . |
17 | Either way , he will be locked up and guarded , and in the fullness of time I will be conveyed to speak to him . |
18 | The rules allowed them this 2:1 majority but in the fullness of time it would become unacceptable to members . |
19 | It only has the force of a recommended practice whereas I believe it should have the full force of a standard , but at least it is there and perhaps in the fullness of time it may attain higher status . |
20 | And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds . |
21 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
22 | Well , in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince was n't even particularly attached to ( a crony of Anna 's , a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong , had spilt the beans to her ) . |
23 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |
24 | With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew . |
25 | But in the fraction of time it took for the dogs to renew their attack , Angel One 's combat-trained eye registered something vital . |
26 | For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased . |
27 | Do you find that the place has changed much in the length of time you 've worked here ? |
28 | While there was such a difference in the length of time it took to acquire qualifications , many working class youngsters who had achieved good grades in the sixth form tended to view a course in teacher training as marking the limit of their ambitions . |
29 | In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late . |
30 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |