Example sentences of "[prep] early times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture . |
| 2 | He was very fond of ancient histories , stories and epics of earlier times and heroes . |
| 3 | In summary , the main points this chapter has attempted to make are the following : ( i ) In the European origins of the formation of modern States , nationalism was a means to establish the loyalty of populations and enforce some measure of homogeneity ( against the local particularisms of earlier times ) . |
| 4 | While there are , of course , many recent causes célèbres of police abuse ( Reiner , 1985 , ch. 2. 2 ) , memoirs of earlier times ( e.g. Mark , 1978 ; Daley , 1986 ) suggest that there was an enormous extent of subterranean wrong-doing in the cosy days of the traditional bobby on the beat . |
| 5 | Such instantaneous judgments come quickly with the benefit of distance and hindsight — it is easy to be smug and superior at ( what we think are ) the follies of earlier times . |
| 6 | The remains of a rare Roman lighthouse and the restored Anglo-Saxon church beside it are remainders of earlier times . |
| 7 | They fled from the marauding Malays of earlier times ; they flee from the approach of any stranger today ; they flee from any imagined threatening event or confrontation . |
| 8 | Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times . |
| 9 | Parent — child relationships , and the boss-follower toyakata-kogata ) relationship widespread in the economy of earlier times , were fundamental axes of social interaction . |
| 10 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 11 | The pattern was thus similar to those of earlier times . |
| 12 | Conversation , comparing what happens today with earlier times helps to focus on the present . |
| 13 | Consider , for example , three contrasts commonly drawn by scholars when comparing our modern scientific age with earlier times when magic prevailed . |
| 14 | In contrast with earlier times , the environmental movement , peaking in 1969 and 1970 , provided the political muscle necessary to counter the lobbying by industrialists . |
| 15 | The family in early times for Marx belongs to the private domain , rather than to the public and political . |
| 16 | If he makes no will we can hardly say that there is in early times any common law as to how his goods shall be divided ; much or all will depend on local custom . |
| 17 | In early times , then — certainly more than two billion years ago photosynthesis evolved . |
| 18 | In early times , farmers were expected to grow a quarter acre of flax for one acre of arable land . |
| 19 | In early times the Shire Reeve , or Sheriff , was responsible to the Crown for the administration of the county . |
| 20 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 21 | There were also special meals and family sacrifices in early times ( 1 Samuel 20:5 , 24 ) , and sometimes prophets were consulted ( 2 Kings 4:23 ) . |
| 22 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 23 | Wherever jade was used in early times it was derived from alluvial sources . |
| 24 | A source of silver much exploited in early times was lead sulphide , most notably galena , containing varying proportions of silver . |
| 25 | Another stone much favoured in early times was turquoise , an opaque phosphate of aluminium which derives its sky-blue colour from traces of copper . |
| 26 | There is little legend attached in early times to the name of Theseus ; and his build-up at this period as a companion and analogue of Herakles seems as a propaganda-figure for the Athenian democracy . |
| 27 | Gifts and legacies , which in early times had been very large , can not be assessed very precisely , but are likely to have been considerable . |
| 28 | The process of canonization , which in early times had been very informal and by acclamation , became regulated under the Church 's supervision and Innocent stressed that only the pope had the authority to declare a saint , " for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and the confusion of heresy " , as he said . |
| 29 | Columns were in early times taken from ruined Roman buildings . |
| 30 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |