Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] ['s] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of this ‘ fretting ’ against the English language and its accepted forms — a continuing experience during Joyce 's time in Trieste , Zurich and Paris — appears in the range of parodies in Ulysses and the revolutionary linguistic of Finnegans Wake . |
| 2 | There were quite a few South Africans within the Opera-Ballet during John 's time there . |
| 3 | A great deal of Alison 's time recently has been spent on the launch of the Income Protection and Critical Protection contracts . |
| 4 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 5 | Although the highlights of the visits were to be commissions to write for the stage , the bulk of Mozart 's time was taken up writing and performing instrumental works for private performances . |
| 6 | In many other parts of the country , primary schools followed a curriculum in which formal activities in number and language occupied the bulk of children 's time in school . |
| 7 | The Jews of Jesus 's time were waiting in anguished anticipation for the advent of the Messiah — and , so far as many of them were concerned , for the advent of two Messiahs . |
| 8 | Wilfrid , however , reacted passionately , if not to the partition of his diocese then to his expulsion and to the bishops who were appointed from communities other than his own — Eata , who had been obliged to leave a new monastic foundation at Ripon to make way for Wilfrid in Ealhfrith 's time , now consecrated bishop in Bernicia with his see at Wilfrid 's monastic foundation at Hexham ; Eadhaed , a former companion of Chad ( HE 111 , 28 ) , bishop of Lindsey ; and Bosa , trained at Whitby where the community under Abbess Hild had opposed acceptance of the Roman Easter at the council of Whitby , bishop of Deira at York ( HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 9 | A contemporary magazine report of a horse infirmary near Coventry reflects some light on the College in Moorcroft 's time . |
| 10 | Today he would have had a tape recorder : did he , like Dickens , at least have shorthand , a not unknown writerly aid since Cicero 's time ? |
| 11 | This type of simplistic explanation of primitive societies has dogged Marxist anthropology since Engels 's time . |
| 12 | In the same way , all examinations make considerable demands on teachers ' time in terms of involvement in Examination Board work , running examinations in school and subsequently marking them ; but an examination like GCSE , with radically new features , is likely to involve considerably more time over the next few years for teachers to become able and proficient in its procedures . |
| 13 | Other demands on officers ' time tend to impose a pattern on their behaviour which is difficult to break without substantial disruption to their schedule and mobility . |
| 14 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 15 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 16 | There are heavy demands on people 's time these days and a lot of rival attractions . |
| 17 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 18 | Half an hour of Basil 's time had been a godsend . |
| 19 | This is why the experts of Jesus ' time criticized him for healing the sick on the Sabbath , accepting social outcasts , or infringing the fine points of the law . |
| 20 | The Old English tended to be the most influential group within Ireland during Spenser 's time . |
| 21 | The book certainly fills a gap between the authors ' well-known researches into opera management during Handel 's time and their continuing work on London opera in the 1780s and 1790s . |
| 22 | She ranges historically as far back as the Florence of Savonarola 's time in Romola , and geographically she actually encompasses themes such as Judaism in her last novel Daniel Deronda , and that , I think , you know , takes her both chronologically and geographically well beyond Jane Austen 's range of interest . |
| 23 | The supply of coal seemed so vast that no one was willing to concede the possibility of exhaustion in the near future , and in the twentieth century oil began to offer a new source of energy that the scientists and engineers of Jevons ' time had not anticipated . |
| 24 | He would stand and stare into the darkness trying to see the old ruins of Caesar 's time , but not tonight , the mist was too thick . |
| 25 | The consumption of parents ' time in this role as ‘ transport guardians ’ is , as Hillman and Whalley have pointed out , an additional major societal consequence . |
| 26 | That is , after all , just what , according to the dominant philosophy of Hutcheson 's time ( that of John Locke ) such so-called secondary qualities as colour , sound and smell are . |
| 27 | The Pharisees who appear in the gospels in Jesus 's time seem to have some distorted ideas about God . |
| 28 | Old Testament kings had regarded it as their duty to protect the poor , and King David , to whom were attributed all the psalms in Charlemagne 's time , was considered very opposed to usury ( for example , Psalm 15 : ‘ Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? . |
| 29 | ‘ In England in Shakespeare 's time , ’ said Owen , disregarding her , ‘ the women 's parts would probably have been played by boys . ’ |
| 30 | The wood in Kingsley 's time contained many foreign and coniferous species , introduced by an earlier , eighteenth-century owner . |