Example sentences of "[noun] since the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been five centuries since the time of Leonardo Da Vinci , a critical figure in the development of human imagination . |
| 2 | A ban on certain political parties , which had been in force since the time of the 1980 military coup , was removed by Cabinet decree on July 3 . |
| 3 | Extensive districts had secured their freedom from the Forest law since the time of Edward III . |
| 4 | As I said before , the unity of Judaism had been in question since the time of Alexander . |
| 5 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 6 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 7 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 8 | In the south level 37,000 acres went under water , and the chief engineer of the Great Ouse catchment board considered it the worst fen flood since the time of Vermuyden . |
| 9 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 10 | He explained that he had fought tooth and nail to be allowed to see the men in custody since the time of the arrests . |
| 11 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |
| 12 | A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric . |
| 13 | Easter alternative AS AN alternative to chocolate eggs , try a simnel cake , said to be an Easter favourite since the time of Edward the Confessor . |
| 14 | He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks . |
| 15 | The Catholic Church 's position , which is based on its experience of the constant tradition of faith since the time of the apostles , is that ‘ the Church , in fidelity to the example of the Lord , does not consider herself authorised to admit women to priestly ordination ’ ( Introduction , declaration on the question of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood , CDF 15 October 1976 ) . |
| 16 | To derive this inequality , Bell made two assumptions : ( a ) the effects of a measurement at A do not affect the measurement at B and vice versa , and ( b ) all the variables describing the two particles are independent of the settings of the apparatus at A and B. Both seem very reasonable requirements , which indeed have played a central role in the development of physics since the time of Isaac Newton . |
| 17 | Where was all the self-assurance , the sophisticated enlightenment of the classical world , of which Egypt had been a part since the time of Alexander ? |
| 18 | The Puritans repudiated the whole history of the Church since the time of the Apostles . |
| 19 | reduction in unemployment since the time of the last general election . |
| 20 | It marked the dedication of a new city church … but it was also the first time a Roman Catholic cardinal had preached before the Monarch since the time of Henry The Eighth . |
| 21 | It would include , for example , virtually all the English countertenors who have enjoyed successful professional careers since the time of Alfred Deller . |
| 22 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |