Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] its time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything a pocket has ever carried in its time . |
| 2 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 3 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 4 | Desperately remote though it seems , this forest has in its time been much worked , beech wood having been prized for making oars for ships and sent off in great quantities to the coast . |
| 5 | It contains a mass of radioactive byproducts spawned during its time in the reactor , some of them extremely hazardous . |
| 6 | Accused in its time of being a scandalous affront to bourgeois morality , La Ronde in fact pinpoints its hypocrisy most acutely and in retrospect reveals its author as ( among other things ) a perceptively premature feminist . |
| 7 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 8 | If this is our approach , we force a work of art to last beyond its time , depriving it of the freedom to disintegrate , become a piece of junk , or just an old paint stain . |
| 9 | It makes the sun appear to vary in its time keeping . |
| 10 | The generalized conclusion ( first widely popularized by Martinson ( 1974 ) ) that ‘ nothing works ’ became widely accepted less because of its validity than because it was a message suited to its time , and because the disappointment of the high hopes invested in reform led to an over-reaction against the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 11 | If this remains true today , it is probably because the House does not have the same pressures placed on its time as the Court of Appeal and is able to devote as much time as it wishes to oral argument . |
| 12 | He was beginning to see that his concept of Art with a capital A was European , based on a classical tradition that was never going to expand to meet the challenge of the new generations of painters because it was defined by its time . |
| 13 | Although an older house , it moves with its time in that is expresses the highest values of the middle classes in words such as ‘ homelike ’ and ‘ comfortable ’ , those used to describe Monk 's Topping as well as Matching . |
| 14 | He was a movie nut and the take-away had in its time been called : the Yangtze Incident , the World of Suzy Wong ( copyright difficulties ) and Enter the Dragon ( raided by the Drugs Squad ) . |
| 15 | The museum 's weirdest exhibit , hailed in its time as a ‘ Marvel of the age ’ and a ‘ Wonderful freak of nature ’ , is a must for children and can be found just along the corridor . |