Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 2 | Moreover , the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated . |
| 3 | Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects . |
| 4 | It will break through the limitations of time and space . |
| 5 | They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world . |
| 6 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 7 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
| 8 | Take a seat aboard a flying desk and spiral backwards through the corridors of time on an exciting journey of discovery ; the story of Oxford University is uncovered to reveal its remarkable impact on Western civilisation . |
| 9 | These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 . |
| 10 | First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change . |
| 11 | In spite of the distances of time and culture , we also discover that we can learn from the great men and women of faith who lived before us . |
| 12 | One regular cross-examiner , Francis Stoner , compared taking part in the inquiry to clambering aboard a ‘ sanitized juggernaut , where there is a suspension of the laws of time , a vortex which can drain energy from people ’ . |
| 13 | And , even if they are an adequate summary of the externals of time and chance to which all are subject , what about the inner life ? |
| 14 | One in particular strongly reinforced this strong sense of the essential unity of the whole body of believers , despite the accidents of time — the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi . |
| 15 | The problem was not absolutely insoluble : Milton , after all , had managed to begin his epic very near the beginnings of time , in Paradise Lost . |
| 16 | This , he claims , is because of the inherent qualities of the written word writing makes the relationship between a word and its referent more general and abstract , it is less closely connected with the peculiarities of time and place than is the language of oral communication . |
| 17 | The whole complex structure of the liturgy throughout the year orders and enacts believers ' common sense of how an ultimate reality engages with the processes of time : the Mass through the celebration of a corporate sense of all life as a divine gift sustained by processes of death and resurrection ; the office by a daily pattern of worship varying throughout the year to commemorate the significance of the events of the Incarnation and link the activities of the Church in time present with the saints . |
| 18 | ‘ We visited the famous red light district , cycled around most of Amsterdam 's 160 canals and visited a local market but , with the constraints of time , there was plenty we had planned but did not manage to do . |
| 19 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 20 | The unfortunate tragedy was a talking point in the district for several weeks but then slowly receded into the aeons of time . |
| 21 | THE TRUE ORIGINS of aromatherapy have evaporated into the mists of time . |
| 22 | Now , from rock nineteen ninety three style , let us move slowly back into the mists of time and a real rave from the grave : Elvis . |
| 23 | I did not want her to face the rings that dissolve into the banks of time 's pond when the dead-weight falls to its depths . |
| 24 | The method of studying early Anglo-Saxon archaeology by equating process with typologies , and the demonstration of clustering along the dimensions of time and space , only inform us that some systematic process was at work . |
| 25 | If he respects and loves his original … he must liberate it from the boundaries of time , the boundaries of physical change of all sorts , the boundaries of cultural change . " |
| 26 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 27 | The little church has suffered from the rigours of time and town planning , normally a lethal combination , and survived . |
| 28 | as if the office , its panelled walls and rich dark furnishings had been preserved from the rigours of time . |
| 29 | It is this sharp awareness of an inner process which will release men from the constraints of time , that makes those who make enormous emotional investment in material enterprises look incredibly foolish : Heaven is the only true object of human desire and it must be particularly and discreetly nourished in a continual process of growth . |
| 30 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |