Example sentences of "time and in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life . |
| 2 | We shall not be surprised , therefore , to find evidence of pre-nasal raising in related dialects , at earlier times and in other environments . |
| 3 | In highly feudalized countries , such as France , one could find , in certain times and in certain parts , something like judicial anarchy . |
| 4 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 5 | The only difference is ‘ that whereas some one finite and narrow assemblage of ideas denotes a particular human mind , whithersoever we direct our view , we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ . |
| 6 | Despite Berkeley 's claim that ‘ we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ , the important place occupied by God in his philosophy will inevitably seem as far removed from immediate experience as the material world of seventeenth-century philosophy seemed to Berkeley . |
| 7 | Clement circumvented the difficulty by interpreting the incarnation in one particular corner of the world as a specially significant moment in a universal care for all humanity at all times and in all places . |
| 8 | This need not , however , suggest ( as Saunders sometimes does indeed imply ) that owner-occupation is at all times and in all places an optimum means of gaining control over one 's own life . |
| 9 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 10 | What was more , he considered it his duty , not only to pray in public himself , but to induce his friends to join him , often at inconvenient times and in conspicuous places . |
| 11 | Without them the phrase ‘ extra-judicial documents ’ would appear almost unlimited in scope , while its French equivalent ‘ actes extra-judiciares ’ has been given , at some times and in some jurisdictions , a narrow and technical meaning . |
| 12 | People acquire their homes at different times and in different circumstances . |
| 13 | Different activities declined at different times and in different ways . |
| 14 | They fit together to form four basic life positions : Even though people may have favourite life positions and spend a majority of their time in one or other of the corners , everyone experiences all four at different times and in different situations . |
| 15 | Since we all experience all four life-positions at different times and in different situations we can at least increase the frequency of OKness . |
| 16 | To fail to make a distinction between a disability and its handicapping effects at different times and in different situations may limit expectations . |
| 17 | Different people at different times and in different places , over a period of five years , displayed the same interest in the past , and ( within acceptable degrees of variation ) gave the same account of incidents and conditions , and gave the same weight to it in their explanations of their actions . |
| 18 | At different times and in different places these matters were regulated by somewhat variable customs . |
| 19 | The intercutting of parallel actions — which can be shot at different times and in different places — can all be done at the editing stage , and you are free to try your hand at risky shots safe in the knowledge that any failures can be edited out later . |
| 20 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |
| 21 | Sometimes ‘ might is right ’ has been accepted as a legitimate form of political power , whereas at other times and in different societies hereditary succession has been accepted as the legitimate source of political power . |
| 22 | In other words , crime is a relative concept ; it can only be defined in relation to particular criminal laws which are effective at particular times and in particular societies . |
| 23 | In good times and in tough times ? |
| 24 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 25 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 26 | In spite of the fact that enquiry statistics appear consistent over time and in different areas , he has been unable to find consistency in definition and recording of enquiries when he visited bureaux . |
| 27 | Details of courses for returners organised by nursing agencies or commercial conference organisations appear in the national weekly nursing press from time to time and in local newspapers . |