Example sentences of "[noun sg] with the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of a piece with the times . |
| 2 | He makes clear in an interview with the Times today that in a hung parliament his party would ‘ bargain very hard indeed ’ to stop Labour removing the £21,060 ceiling on National Insurance payments and introducing a 50p tax rate for top earners . |
| 3 | In an interview with The Times of India on Oct. 5 , 1990 , King Wangchuck expressed his willingness to enter into a dialogue with the dissidents . |
| 4 | In an interview with The Times , Gummer said : " I do not think that any of the mechanisms for killing whales which are available now are commensurate with humanitarian views of our treatment of living things " . |
| 5 | ‘ Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that … ’ it would be interesting to compare the time spent by Flaubert making sure that his heroine had the rare and difficult eyes of a tragic adulteress with the time spent by Dr Starkie in carelessly selling him short . |
| 6 | The anatomical detail of the muscles below the skin is alarming , but very much in keeping with the times , when there was a great interest in anatomical detail . |
| 7 | In keeping with the times the ladies were strictly segregated and used the rooms on each side of the front door . |
| 8 | She opened her factory , Coade and Seely , in Lambeth in 1769 which at first , in keeping with the times , manufactured ornaments of classical inspiration , but by the 1840s it showed the pronounced influence of the early Victorian decorative style . |
| 9 | Widgery acquiesced , aiming to do it from a position in keeping with the times , and from his revolutionary socialist stance . |
| 10 | It was now also , in keeping with the times , to be a workers co-operative . |
| 11 | He and the residue of the small group around the lab organized all night ‘ mixed media ’ events entitled , in keeping with the times , ‘ Strange Daze ’ to raise money . |
| 12 | But then on my travels I met a vampire which had escaped a great war with the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 13 | The survey by the National Consumer Council among almost 1,000 consumers found widespread dissatisfaction with the time it took the ombudsmen to settle disputes . |
| 14 | We still have difficulty with the time changes towards a pot of geraniums ! ’ |
| 15 | adversely affect your ability to carry out the duties required by the ES ( eg overlap with the time you are required to work for ES or leave you too tired to be able to carry out your ES duties properly ) ; or |
| 16 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |
| 17 | At the same time , cars were numbered in accordance with the time they set off so the thousands of spectators that lined the route could get some indication who was leading . |
| 18 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 19 | They were hopelessly out of touch with the times , stadium dinosaurs too big and clumsy to survive . |
| 20 | They were hopelessly out of touch with the times , stadium dinosaurs too big and clumsy to survive . |
| 21 | Twenty-five years ago , in flower-power hippie days , such idealism might have seemed slightly more in kilter with the times . |
| 22 | In 1945 Labour won because its thinking was clearly in tune with the times . |
| 23 | Section 28 was thus in perfect tune with the times . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Major will tell the Queen a slimmed down Royal Family is more in tune with the times . ’ |
| 25 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 26 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 27 | What it is important to recognise here is that a text 's negotiation with the time of its historical production is a complex operation . |
| 28 | By the 1890s architectural styles generally were changing and Gothic had largely run its course ; Cubitt 's arguments were in step with the times . |
| 29 | This marginality is well described in Peter Wildblood 's chapter on ‘ Perry and Bella ’ in A Way of Life : ‘ the strange world of people who for one reason or another are out of step with the times ’ , or by Colin MacInnes : |
| 30 | Educators , and others , who abhor the idea of a world filled with TV 's graduates are clearly out of step with the times . |