Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 2 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
| 3 | In Caria in later times there was a Zeus Labrandeus , who was a god wielding a double-axe . |
| 4 | Hermeneutic history , on the other hand , seeks to interpret texts created in communicative contexts in order to reveal their internal meanings , their relationships to other texts , and the story in real time which they tell . |
| 5 | For the pulsar to move 18' from the apparent centre of the SNR in this time its proper motion would have to be 0.06 yr -1 . |
| 6 | ( I recently watched a more formal version of this technique where a class of adolescents was invited to direct the teacher in how to appear as a King of a small Greek State in classical times who had lost his power to a conquering neighbouring state but who did not want to lose his dignity . |
| 7 | Mr C. Jones , of Kingswood , Bristol , wins our first £25 prize by asking you to name the players in that time who have won the award with two different clubs . |
| 8 | The four arms of the cross are known as ‘ the four arms of Vishnu ’ , the Supreme Deity in Vedic times who later became the preserver and supporter of life in the Hindu Trinity and can be equated with the ‘ Holy Ghost ’ or Mother in Christianity . |
| 9 | Though politicians often claim that the authority the law claims for itself is justified , there has hardly been any political theorist in recent times who has shared this view . |
| 10 | But we can scarcely doubt , for all that , that Elizabeth must have gone to her death not a little exhausted by the duties of a wife and mother in hard times which found out the slightest weakness in every individual 's constitution . |