Example sentences of "the [noun] of a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Professor Summerfield , you should never underestimate the guile of a Time Lord . |
| 2 | The suffering and self-conscious first-person singular manifested in Dyer could be considered a creation of the Gothic novel that came after him , and Dyer can also bring to mind the magus of a time before . |
| 3 | No general rules can be laid down as to the reasonableness of a time period because these obviously depend on the facts of each case , however as Lord Shaw said in the Morris ( Herbert ) case " as the time of the restriction lengthens and the space of its operation extends , the weight of the onus on the covenantee grows " . |
| 4 | Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb . |
| 5 | At its crudest the conservative-historical approach to permissiveness is but a mourning for a lost ‘ golden age ’ , an expression of grief for the passing of a time when questions of morals supposedly appeared much simpler , more straightforward and certainly less contentious and open to question . |
| 6 | The idea that there is such a thing as the spirit of a time can be awkwardly challenged by asking , ‘ Whose time ? ’ |
| 7 | The number-two car with Dino Tremiti had done well and held current pole position , but even if Ace did brilliantly the Brazilian who drove for Carlisle Flint 's closest rivals was hot on his tail , and he had a reputation for being able to go just that little bit faster under the pressure of a time to beat . |
| 8 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 9 | The old texts describe the science of a time past , before we became a people . |
| 10 | To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear ! |
| 11 | The implication is that if , by the medium of a time machine , predators from one era could meet prey from another era , the later , more ‘ modern ’ animals , whether predators or prey , would run rings round the earlier ones . |
| 12 | This development has made sight accounts more popular with many customers , offering as they do the benefits of a time account ( namely , interest ) but with instant access with no loss of interest , and cheque-book and debit-card facilities . |