Example sentences of "the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hoccleve is distressed by the corruptions of the time ( which recur in the main work as well as here ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Given its structure and the circumstances of the time , no one should be surprised . |
| 10 | The marriage , too , had been a miscalculation , but given the circumstances of the time , an understandable one . |
| 11 | The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | In my view , it is a programme of legislation which matches the needs of the time . |
| 16 | Like the weather , the fortunes of the time were soured . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , it must be acknowledged also that the conditions of the time have an important part to play in determining the feasibility of any particular type of exchange rate system . |
| 20 | The determinants of the time value component are primarily the volatility of the underlying shares and the prevailing and expected interest rates in the money markets . |
| 21 | The beliefs of the time were not to be easily undermined : as traffic grew the conventional wisdom was that roads should be widened to accommodate it . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , a household with an RNR value of 200 per cent has an income equal to twice the amount of benefit that it would be entitled to under the regulations of the time . |
| 23 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 24 | This is not through any lack of distinction on the part of the writers of the time or those of their works that show the Greek influence ; nor is there any lack of such works . |
| 25 | It is known that he was proficient in the sciences of the time , as well as being a considerable linguist . |
| 26 | Its importance as a link between Bishop 's Castle and the rest of the world in the days before motorised transport is emphasised by all the recollections of the time . |
| 27 | These discoveries would not be very difficult to make nowadays , but with no more than the techniques of the time , each was a great achievement . |
| 28 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 29 | The diseases of the time affected almost every family : tuberculosis , rickets , pneumonia . |
| 30 | The magazines of the time carried article after article laying down the law of correct and essential dress in which to be seen on ocean crossings and cruises . |