Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It even had a shot at controlling motorway service areas , provoking a debate which encapsulated many of the attitudes of the time . |
| 2 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 3 | ‘ The eschaton is a future event but , to the extent that our lives are determined and qualified by it , it is also a contemporary event , an event that can be seen in the signs of the times ’ ( Nolan 1976:76 ) . |
| 4 | He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) . |
| 5 | He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) . |
| 6 | It assigns to the local churches the task of discerning the signs of the times , for ‘ in view of the varied situations in the world , it is difficult to give one teaching to cover them all , or to offer a solution that has universal value ’ ( no. 4 ) . |
| 7 | Another speaker , Michael Traber , WACC 's Director of Studies and Publications , said : ‘ It is the task of the mass media and theology to read the signs of the times and to interpret the changes that occur in the world in order to make sense of them . ’ |
| 8 | It was established in 1983 to publish books that interpret the signs of the times according to the needs and pastoral demands of the Church . |
| 9 | Indeed here more than anywhere we may detect the Council 's most characteristic of orientations in comparison with all other Councils : a concern with ‘ the signs of the time ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 4 and cf. 44 ) , things outside the Church 's own life , the major problems cultural , economic and political of the contemporary world . |
| 10 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 11 | It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university . |
| 12 | Hoccleve is distressed by the corruptions of the time ( which recur in the main work as well as here ) . |
| 13 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 14 | Swimming defiantly against the tides of the times , Moonshake place much emphasis on their lyrics and thus run the risk of being seen as old-fashioned . |
| 15 | I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’ |
| 16 | A tremendous favourite with the fans of the time , Roy was both handsome and spectacular , and a most worthy member of the gallery of fine goalkeepers who have served Crystal Palace down the years . |
| 17 | Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson . |
| 18 | But his shortcomings ( of which he was engagingly aware ) reflected those very traits of character which made him , in the words of The Times obituary , a great public servant and a most lovable man . |
| 19 | Given its structure and the circumstances of the time , no one should be surprised . |
| 20 | The marriage , too , had been a miscalculation , but given the circumstances of the time , an understandable one . |
| 21 | The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time . |
| 22 | And although , according to the conventions of the time , he acknowledged that ‘ the subject is quite unfit for women to think of ’ , he nevertheless urged a loosening of convention , for ‘ it is absolutely necessary for the ends of justice , and a due regard for outraged humanity , that these things should be made known to the women of England ’ . |
| 23 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 24 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | The Bill matches the needs of the times , and I commend it to the House . |
| 26 | In my view , it is a programme of legislation which matches the needs of the time . |
| 27 | Like the weather , the fortunes of the time were soured . |
| 28 | Ipswich School 's bid to reach the finals of The Times British Schools Champion-ship has almost certainly failed in the round of the last 16 . |
| 29 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 30 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |