Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] own time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer our own time , millstones were fashioned from the gritstone rocks of the upper slopes for the many water-powered mills in the district , and debris of this industry may still be found by diligent search near Sand Tarn . |
| 2 | Nearer our own time , in 1830 , when the extensive manor of Ingleton changed hands , the new owner had a tower intended as a hospice erected on the summit , made from stone pillaged from the wall and the foundations of the huts . |
| 3 | Almost any photograph can reveal something about its own time if read properly — even the boring cartes-de-visite portraits produced in their millions all over the world , offer evidence of contemporary fashions and attitudes . |
| 4 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 5 | Finally governors recognised that a fully established committee structure might involve an unreasonable amount of their own time . |
| 6 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 7 | Paradoxically this makes the moral and dynastic problems in the books less taxing to young readers , because they are isolated from the pressures of their own time . |
| 8 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 9 | Secondly , since 1975 , people who conduct their own litigation have become entitled to costs in respect of their own time and effort spent preparing and presenting the case . |
| 10 | Yet Les Noces was also of its own time , 1923 . |
| 11 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 12 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 13 | As a woman who is young in years by our own standards but who is thought old by those of her own time . |
| 14 | She gave much of her own time to helping those encountering problems with their studies through individual tuition at her home , frequently during the summer months in preparation for autumn courses . |
| 15 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 16 | It was after this critique of Lawrence 's attitude to the modern industrial civilization and the savage world , joined to his own prophetic Christian stance towards his own time , that Eliot returned to London and the writing of The Rock . |
| 17 | ' . Doubtless , the relevance of these remarks to Eliot 's view of his own time attracted him to them . |
| 18 | Gutenberg tried to mimic the gothic calligraphy of his own time when he invented modern printing , because anything else would have been hard to read . |
| 19 | Mr Bob Wybrow of Gallup reckons that year by year only about a tenth of his own time is occupied with politics , and ‘ about two per cent of the organisation 's time ’ , though of course this doubles in an election year . |
| 20 | He also put in much of his own time and appeared to have a way of solving most problems . |
| 21 | A famous example is housed in the Bodleian : Clarendon 's History of the Rebellion and Burnets History of his Own Time expanded to fifty-seven volumes , with four additional volumes of outsize plates . |
| 22 | He is far better on the art of his own time , particularly on Miró : ‘ Miro 's miracle is not in his breathing , but in that his surface does not end up heavy and material , like cement or tar of mayonnaise , but airy , light , clean , radiant , like the Mediterranean itself . |
| 23 | Ginguene , writing now of his own time ( up to C.1790 ) , confirms this tendency in a wonderfully detailed observation . |
| 24 | It is unfair on the candidates to raise their hopes unnecessarily , and is a waste of your own time . |
| 25 | All of a sudden you 're self-employed , you can go , because you 're in control of your own time . |
| 26 | ‘ An example from the history of our own time is a lady of the high nobility , who had an invincible loathing for her first husband , although he was first among all subjects . … ’ |
| 27 | It is a bitter indictment of our own time that the phrase ‘ inner city ’ should today universally conjure up images of disorder , poverty , fear , vandalism , and alienation . |
| 28 | Farrar was free of two taboos of our own time : the taboo on affection and the taboo on the discussion of death . |
| 29 | We need to look rather to the social conditions of our own time and the recent past to understand why such a myth seems plausible and important . |
| 30 | In the same note he claims that , in some sense , he was ‘ more modern ’ than good Pope John ( he mentions his appearances at the Milan Fair as evidence ) ; and says ‘ perhaps our life is marked by love of our own time , of our world more clearly than by anything else ’ ( ibid . ) |