Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will lie unnoticed in the vault of time . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 3 | There were traces of the same fine-boned look about him , but his features were already well masked by what was likely in the course of time to become a solid layer of self-indulgent fat . |
| 4 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |
| 5 | In the course of time , we begin to read Williams 's influence in Lewis 's own work — the Lion of Strength will reappear as Aslan , Judah 's Lion , crushing the Serpent 's Head in the Chronicles of Narnia , for example . |
| 6 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 7 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 8 | In the course of time Aunt Nessy , having looked after her adoptive parents until they died , was left a small sum of money . |
| 9 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 10 | In the course of time , the two branches of the legal profession might be merged . |
| 11 | An officially estimated 75 per cent of British children speak their mother tongue , which they hear at home , abysmally , and will , in the course of time , pass on to their own children , since , after all , languages are first learnt with the ears and not grammar books . |
| 12 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 13 | In the course of time , this contact will cease to have special significance , and the mentally handicapped child will just be another child . |
| 14 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
| 15 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 16 | There are those who think that the ordination of women is bound to come in the course of time and wonder why it is necessary to campaign for it . |
| 17 | obsolescence of the stock , as individual titles become less useful ( progressively out-of-date , etc. ) in the course of time . |
| 18 | I even hinted , without any good reason for thinking it , that in the course of time our little amateur effort at 1OAB might evolve into another commercial station , which caused considerable laughter from both my pioneer radio partners . |
| 19 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 20 | In the course of time , the Coleman prize became awarded as a result of examinations posing pathological and practical subjects relating to the foot of the horse , the principles and practice of shoeing , the diseases of the horse 's eye , and the disease known as glanders . |
| 21 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 22 | It is possible that in the course of time scientific advance will be able to offer at least an hypothesis which will throw some light on the mystery of the origin of the universe and give substance to the belief that life , in some form or other , does have an ineradicable and eternal place in the universe . |
| 23 | If in the course of time science produces evidence , from within the infinity of the universe , of some previously unknown and completely indestructible influence which caused life to commence , then that influence must not be designated spiritual' . |
| 24 | The foregoing would , of course , mean that property rights were not for the dispensation of some imagined ‘ god ’ of early superstitious religion , but existed by virtue of the fact that human beings have , in the course of time , generally agreed that such a right was ‘ good ’ , for the reason that without it there could be no peaceful existence and no contentment . |
| 25 | In the minds of men the Created God could , in the course of time , become personified as the immortal keeper of the good which ensures the continuing development of life in accordance with the desired pattern , but that personification should never be allowed to cloud the origins of the Created God , which came from life . |
| 26 | In the course of time , because they developed from human imagination to which there are no limits , the powers ascribed to the first ‘ gods ’ became exaggerated beyond all reason . |
| 27 | Those events which furthered the process in ( 46 ) are forever preserved , and will in the course of time become acknowledged to be rightly designated ‘ sacred ’ , and be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 28 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 29 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 30 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |