Example sentences of "of modern time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of the open dissent of Prior , Pym , Walker , and Gilmour , and even some resistance from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself , the Prime Minister , urged on by her newest economic adviser , Professor Alan Walters , forced through the most resolutely anti-Keynesian budget of modern times . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher turned from being the least popular Prime Minister of modern times to becoming an Iron Britannia , a new Boadicea , the very embodiment of toughness , triumph , and grim resolve . |
| 3 | ‘ Fifty Years Ago ’ on page 19 reports the joy that was felt when the first three African bishops of modern times were appointed . |
| 4 | At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands . |
| 5 | But the memory of Bregawn should not be of a recalcitrant mule goaded into action as the rest of the field leaves him way behind , but of a good Cheltenham Gold Cup winner storming up the hill to head the procession of Dickinson horses which was the most remarkable training feat of modern times . |
| 6 | Borg 's disappearance from top tennis , like Harold Wilson 's withdrawal from government a few years before , constitutes one of the great resignation puzzles of modern times . |
| 7 | Richard Feynman , said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times , stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics . |
| 8 | It was one of the most remarkable election victories of modern times . |
| 9 | The scraps of handwritten messages from survivors huddled in the Carpathia ( Lot 9 at Christie 's , £6,000/8,000 ) ; a letter written in the Titanic and posted at Queenstown ( Onslow 's , £1,500/2,000 ) are witness to the greatest maritime disaster of modern times . |
| 10 | Because , in the rolling , tree-lined paddocks of Claiborne , Kentucky , and syndicated for a record $5.4 million , Nijinsky immediately proved himself an entirely worthy son of Northern Dancer , the most successful stallion of modern times . |
| 11 | The two major revolutions of modern times in the region , Cuba ( 1959 ) and Nicaragua ( 1979 ) , were both brought about by multi-class coalitions . |
| 12 | ‘ George Bush , commander-in-chief of the greatest military campaign of modern times , walked into the White House office clutching a portable TV set . |
| 13 | The government has bombarded savers with opportunities to buy shares — generally on the cheap — in recognisable and profitable enterprises , it has tempted them with a succession of tax breaks designed to promote share ownership , and it has presided over the most sustained equity bull market of modern times . |
| 14 | Sadly , for most cats today heated food is something of a luxury and , like many humans , they have learned to live with the ‘ fast food ’ mentality of modern times . |
| 15 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 16 | The hero of modern times is the individual , and Wordsworth only knew one individual well enough to write about — himself ! |
| 17 | It was only 16 years ago that the first royal divorce of modern times was announced in a whisper so the country would not be too shocked . |
| 18 | ‘ The great windows of modern times are all the work of artists working with collaborative craftsmen . ’ |
| 19 | The most formidable public relations exercise of modern times was launched and Whitelaw was the controlling spider at the centre of the network . |
| 20 | The housewife of modern times has not yet been invented . |
| 21 | In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys . |
| 22 | The successes of December 1941 and February 1942 were crowned in March by the most profitable amphibious raid of modern times , in terms of effective damage with an economy of force . |
| 23 | ‘ I still believe I 've come up with one of the greatest innovations of modern times . |
| 24 | With costly building work still to be done , Liverpool are faced with their worst cash crisis of modern times , despite winning the FA Cup last season . |
| 25 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 26 | The achievements are well recorded : the Brabazon airliner , the abortive TSR2 fighter plane and Concorde — the fastest white elephant of modern times . |
| 27 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 28 | They are , rather , expected to express their impulses in certain ways , ways that do not transgress against the more lenient standards of modern times . |
| 29 | McLAREN HONDA The outstanding team of modern times . |
| 30 | With its line-up of twin fiddles , the redoubtable Sharon on box , Ringo on bodhrán and the talents of Francis Black and Seán Keane on vocals — Arcady were one of the most exciting musical combinations of modern times . |