Example sentences of "[prep] his own time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ' . Doubtless , the relevance of these remarks to Eliot 's view of his own time attracted him to them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He also put in much of his own time and appeared to have a way of solving most problems . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ginguene , writing now of his own time ( up to C.1790 ) , confirms this tendency in a wonderfully detailed observation . |
| 9 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 10 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 11 | He should take his own route in his own time and avoid the tendency to see through others ' eyes . |
| 12 | Personally , I do not share that view but whatever the reason , stubbornness must not be allowed to succeed : the dog must do what he is commanded to do , not in his own time , when he feels like it , but immediately ; and if it is done correctly , he should receive praise and lots of it . |
| 13 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 14 | In his own time the Wanderer has seen the face of England changed : |
| 15 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 16 | Jolitz reportedly mortgaged his house to start the initial 386BSD project and subsequently finished it in his own time . |
| 17 | Best to ignore him and let him come around in his own time . |
| 18 | What marked Suger out from other pseudo-Dionysians was firstly , that he translated his abstractions into concepts directly relevant to French politics in his own time , and secondly that he proclaimed his views in the influential Life of Louis VI , written in the early years of Louis VII 's reign . |
| 19 | What other libraries , museums and centres may help me ? reminding us that the maturer student will wish to venture further and work in his own time . |
| 20 | What Ben did in his own time was up to him , but in the morning classes he was to do as Peng Yu-wei instructed ; learn what Peng Yu-wei asked him to learn . |
| 21 | In his own time , the ecological dimension in Darwin 's thought was largely subordinated to the confident progressionism that characterized the Victorian era . |
| 22 | In his own time . ’ |
| 23 | As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time . |
| 24 | When the War Office displayed no interest , Bailey persevered with detailed design in his own time . |
| 25 | The slave wars are not to be separated , in Posidonius ' mind , from the civil wars he had seen in his own time . |
| 26 | Posidonius took the Roman victory for granted and analysed the series of crises through which the Roman state had passed in his own time . |
| 27 | Polybius never quite grasped the political organization of Italy in his own time . |
| 28 | Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole . |
| 29 | Does the person have to correct unsatisfactory work in his own time and at his own expense ? |
| 30 | A person employed as an accountant who writes a computer program to help with the production of financial accounts will own the copyright in that program if he wrote it in his own time , using his own equipment . |