Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of commissioning artists to decorate ceramics in their own individual styles was a tradition first established in the 1770s when Josiah Wedgwood employed the services of noted artists of the time . |
| 2 | Political maps of the time show how complex the situation really was when Rodrigo began to exercise an influence . |
| 3 | Harbour commissions , like so many other improving economic institutions of the time enabled by act of parliament , undertook a steady upgrading and extension . |
| 4 | For the dominant , there may be a more flexible perimeter , depending upon the political tactics of the time . |
| 5 | The company 's infiltration of the UK market was accelerated by the migration of a variety of British musicians to the infamous German clubs of the time , where they would perform rock'n'roll covers for audiences consisting largely of US Forces personnel . |
| 6 | Approximately half a century later , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons , issued his violent and dogmatic attack on the prevalent heresies of the time , Adversus haereses . |
| 7 | That change of historical focus would allow composers who did not so much ‘ negate ’ , as work through the social conflicts of the time ( such as Verdi , Elgar , Liszt ) to be readmitted to the ‘ progressive ’ ranks . |
| 8 | Some of these straight orthocone nautiloids achieve considerable dimensions , several metres long , and they must have been formidable predators on the other marine animals of the time . |
| 9 | These show a remarkable grasp of the prevalent styles of the time that were adopted by both Italian and English composers , and especially by J C Bach . |
| 10 | Other interesting trades of the time were shoemakers , a weaver , a straw-hat maker , a druggist and a castrator , plus the more usual ones . |
| 11 | erm the advertisements themselves called a great caused a great furore because erm Tampax was a fairly new invention and because of the sexual and social mores of the time they were n't considered very nice . |
| 12 | When payment is received the supplier should usually then issue a tax invoice within 30 days of the time of supply if the client is a taxable person ( reg 12(1) and ( 5 ) ) . |
| 13 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 14 | But perhaps there is a deeper explanation for acceptance of Chapman 's firm rule , one rooted in the social conditions of the time . |
| 15 | ( Such a longing , incidentally , tends to forget certain unpleasant features of the time in question : for black Americans a reassertion of eighteenth-century values would mean a return to slavery . ) |
| 16 | The objectives in this section , therefore , are twofold : first , to present the initial phase of socialist realism ( 1934–9 ) as a product of a given historical experience and attempt in the process to elucidate the undoubted attraction that Soviet communism and socialist realism exerted on many French intellectuals of the time ; secondly , to review the criticisms of socialist realism made both by supporters and opponents of the movement , not in order to resolve the highly problematical issues at stake , but in order rather to highlight the nexus of problems and difficulties associated with socialist realism and , very specifically , to draw up an agenda , both political and formal , for discussion when analyzing Nizan 's communist novels . |
| 17 | AS THE sound of young Scotland dominated every cool kid 's turntable , along came a film that celebrated all the Caledonian virtues of the time ; charm ; laconic , urban wit , youthful experience and wonky enthusiasm . |
| 18 | It is certainly not to be accounted for simply by the clerical abuses of the time . |
| 19 | It was to be a ballad based on the supernatural , as were other popular ballads of the time , and would retell in lively narrative and simple verse form an old mariner 's hypnotic tale . |
| 20 | Bass players of the time were most unhappy about the situation , though ; their instrument , the double bass , was exceedingly bulky , very fragile and did not take at all well to the rigours of touring , especially if strapped to the roof of a car , as many were . |
| 21 | Beneath an apparent calm on the campuses were all the unresolved and unaddressed issues of the time . |
| 22 | Did you hear any of the great non-Austro-German conductors of the time ? |
| 23 | It has been a fundamental aim of this study to argue that the images of working-class youth , and their means of construction were inextricably bound up with the political , economic , social , and cultural issues of the time . |
| 24 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 25 | Your name is curiously absent from historical reports of the time . |
| 26 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 27 | The term status was popularized in 1958 in an influential book , The Status Seekers by Vance Packard , whose sensitive antennae picked up many new social currents of the time . |
| 28 | Contrasts , however , is more than a manifesto for the Gothic : it is , implicitly , a diagnosis of the social and cultural evils of the time , and a proposal for political and social change . |
| 29 | Haynes may have been apolitical , but his very naivete , and openness to the cultural currents of the time , underlined the difference between the Labour Government 's radicalism and the new popular movements . |
| 30 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |