Example sentences of "[adv] of his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nasser was to be a figure not only of his time , but of his social background as wall . |
| 2 | But he would give generously of his time to such organisations as the British Council , helping to audition young people with ambitions to dance . |
| 3 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 4 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 5 | In this respect , Marx 's anthropology seems amazingly ahead of his time . |
| 6 | He was ahead of his time and set the pattern for the post-war development of soccer as a ‘ media event ’ . |
| 7 | By this fitful light you see Buchner , crazily ahead of his time , trying to invent the Theatre of the Absurd without much understanding of the essential carpentry of comedy . |
| 8 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 9 | Clutterbuck was obviously very cultivated and very ahead of his time , for this was an early move towards romantic landscaping . |
| 10 | Sir John Soane was miles ahead of his time . |
| 11 | Pugin ( who designed the Houses of Parliament with Sir Charles Barry ) , was fifty years ahead of his time . |
| 12 | He was obviously way ahead of his time . |
| 13 | By placing science and technology in ‘ context ’ , Professor Brittain was clearly ahead of his time . |
| 14 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |
| 15 | ‘ He possessed the gift of seeing ahead of his time . |
| 16 | Her pleas that determinism need not imply hostility ( ’ it can instead call for cooperation ’ ) , and that the novelist was really both behind and ahead of his time in scientific terms , are scarcely compelling . |
| 17 | Hahnemann was ahead of his time in advocating preventive medicine , as well as in his use of homoeopathy . |
| 18 | However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material . |
| 19 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 20 | Wordsworth seems almost a hundred years ahead of his time . |
| 21 | Wordsworth 's views on education were remarkably ahead of his time . |
| 22 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 23 | He was only slightly ahead of his time . |
| 24 | Indeed , in some of his pronouncements Adler seems to have been ahead of his time . |
| 25 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 26 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 27 | In his letters he encouraged breast-feeding by the mother , and was concerned with early toilet-training-indeed , his attitude towards the child was ahead of his time , but in no way original . |
| 28 | He was ahead of his time in identification with the people , working towards indigenous leadership . |
| 29 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Also obsessed by the problem of the co-ordinated flight manoeuvres of flocking birds , Selous ( again ahead of his time ) sought the explanation in some form of extrasensory facility such as telepathy . |