Example sentences of "in modern time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 2 | In modern times differences appeared . |
| 3 | This is so ludicrous it is laughable in modern times . |
| 4 | Several laws have been passed in modern times to restrict dangerous activities and to impose criminal sanctions on citizens who fail to protect themselves against injury — for example , the offences of failing to wear a safety helmet when riding a motor cycle , and failing to wear a safety harness when travelling in the front seat of a car . |
| 5 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 6 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 7 | These rules were modified by reform Judaism in modern times and , to a lesser extent , by conservative Judaism , but remain in full force for the orthodox , the group that predominates as the only legitimate expression of Judaism in the present State of Israel . |
| 8 | Consequently a relatively large and regular number of hoards have become available for study through their discovery in modern times . |
| 9 | There has , however , been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome 's power : was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures , and thereby incidentally achieve this new position , or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated ( for example , by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory ) ? |
| 10 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 11 | It has made possible the massive evolution of mechanics in modern times and has inspired Constructivist art forms that regard space as a continuum . |
| 12 | The study of such curves , originating perhaps in the Ancient Greek spiral , can be traced in modern times from the work of Giuseppe Peano in 1890 and Helge von Koch in 1904 to Mandelbrot 's book , Fractals : Form , Chance and Dimension ( 1977 ) . |
| 13 | In another mood , secure and easy movement , optimistic and pleasantly anticipatory , goes with the sun and the moon ; westwards … the migratory direction of the human race in modern times . |
| 14 | In modern times there is only one celebrated instance of a subject 's displeasure at an artist 's likeness : that of Sir Winston Churchill with his portrait by Graham Sutherland which , tragically , ended up in the fireplace . |
| 15 | In an event which has always been enriched by its personalities — from Lipton , through Sopwith , Vanderbilt , Bich , Bond and de Savary , to Fay — the 52-year-old billionaire , born in Kansas , is the persona of the 1992 Cup , eclipsing even Dennis Conner — the most successful Cup skipper in modern times — in his home town . |
| 16 | As we shall see inter-group behaviour in modern times is explicable primarily in terms of the social identities people adopt in relation to cultural and economic stresses , and the place for a biological factor in the discussion is here a very small one ( p. 390 ) . |
| 17 | However , it did not prevent , in the winter of 1921–2 , an appalling famine afflicting the southern districts of the Ukraine , ‘ the worst ’ , a League of Nations report declared , ‘ both as regards the numbers affected and as regards the mortality from starvation and disease which has occurred in Europe in modern times ’ . |
| 18 | In modern times churches and theatres were the only buildings which were designed to cope with crowds , and they offered no real clues to the scale of the problem now facing station architects . |
| 19 | In modern times , the demands we make have changed in some ways . |
| 20 | In modern times the functions of parody are narrow and unproductive . |
| 21 | In modern times , psychologists have said that our unconscious mind , which powers our inbuilt desires , is simply another name for God . |
| 22 | To provide people with the opportunity to acquire even a tiny stake in the land is a daunting task calling for wisdom , courage , and political integrity almost unheard of in modern times . |
| 23 | This degree of accuracy was attained in European planetary astronomy only in modern times . |
| 24 | But there was speculation that the sixteen-foot olos of their Hawaiian predecessors had been capable of scaling the monstrous waves , fifty feet and more , that boil and boom off Kaena Point and remain untested in modern times . |
| 25 | It is curious that in modern times the Cabinet , though it has always insisted on considering particular proposals for developments of policy and their cost , has never thought it necessary to review the development of expenditure under the Civil Estimates as a whole . |
| 26 | originally the council chosen by the King of England to administer public affairs , but in modern times never summoned as a whole except to proclaim the successor to the Crown on the death of a sovereign . |
| 27 | His disciplinary record was appalling and in modern times only Willie Johnson of Rangers and Billy Bremner of Leeds come remotely close to seizing his crown . |
| 28 | From time to time these worthy bodies are moved to compile works recording the history of a parish in modern times — the Queen 's Jubilee , the celebration of the wedding of the Prince and princess of Wales , and other notable occasions . |
| 29 | His argument was based on personal opinion , feelings and intuition though it does have a loose connection to Carl Gustav Jung 's theory of racial memory , which has fallen into disuse in modern times . |
| 30 | Martin Sheldrick , of the British Museum ( Natural History ) has investigated and catalogued the cetacean strandings around Britain in modern times . |