Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole complex structure of the liturgy throughout the year orders and enacts believers ' common sense of how an ultimate reality engages with the processes of time : the Mass through the celebration of a corporate sense of all life as a divine gift sustained by processes of death and resurrection ; the office by a daily pattern of worship varying throughout the year to commemorate the significance of the events of the Incarnation and link the activities of the Church in time present with the saints . |
| 2 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 3 | If the witness fails to attend , the applicant must be able to prove in enforcement proceedings that the witness was served , or knew of the service in time , and received the conduct money . |
| 4 | We 're going to spend the rest of the session on time management . |
| 5 | The heart of Christianity , for Kierkegaard , lies in the recognition in Jesus of the intersection of time and eternity , the coming together of God and man . |
| 6 | This ‘ moment ’ is itself a point in our own time and history , but insofar as it is also the encounter with eternity , it is the ‘ eternal moment ’ , and shares something of the quality of the intersection of time and eternity in Jesus himself . |
| 7 | They may provide : ( 1 ) no guidance at all , or ( 2 ) the right to make submissions , or even ( 3 ) full details of the procedure with time limits . |
| 8 | The thrilling secrets of the birth of time . ’ |
| 9 | Its model is not unlike that of the language-game of time . |
| 10 | Ace was faster , however , and had her Browning out of the holster in time to fire before Richmann . |
| 11 | Gorbachev was Man of the Year for Time magazine in 1987 and for Der Spiegel in 1988 ; in 1989 he was ‘ statesman of the decade ’ for independent television in Britain ; in 1990 he was Man of the Year in France and received the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 12 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
| 13 | The kitchen clock reminded him sharply of the passage of time , and urgency lent cunning to the rector 's stratagems . |
| 14 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 15 | Although Homer dealt with allegedly historical subjects , his was ‘ aristocratic ’ history , involving no chronology , no temporal continuity with later ages , and no real sense of the passage of time . |
| 16 | The public clock , whether installed in a church or in a town square , was only an intermittent reminder of the passage of time , but a domestic clock or a watch was a continually visible indicator . |
| 17 | While it is not necessary to cover all of these activities in detail it is important , if the interest of the audience is to be held , to show some indications of the passage of time . |
| 18 | Once his paintings were finished , Joni applied a treatment designed to replicate the effects of the passage of time : loss of pigment , cracks , scratches . |
| 19 | It is always my hope and belief that by alerting social workers to the danger for children and parents of the passage of time and requiring them to point these out to the natural parents , that one would be avoiding that sort of drift , and collusion with parents of ‘ Oh do n't worry , you get yourself together and then we 'll think about him coming home . ’ |
| 20 | In view of the passage of time , the Goldsmiths increased this amount to £575 , and requested that the School should remove from the buildings the stone inscriptions bearing witness to their former patronage . |
| 21 | It raises the possibility that their master clock can continue to keep track of the passage of time even when all bodily functions are drastically reduced . |
| 22 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 23 | We were oblivious of the passage of time . |
| 24 | His head rose above the floor level of the hay-loft in time to see a great deal more of Melody than he had anticipated as she slipped her ragged clothes back on . |
| 25 | Even so , she still managed to get through 200 rolls of the film in time . |
| 26 | Even so , she still managed to get through 200 rolls of the film in time . |
| 27 | A modular course in education management can cover broad issues such as the management of change as well as narrower questions of the management of time and money , the management of curriculum development , of assessment and review , of the handling of relationships both inside and outside schools and colleges and of the management of staff development policies and practices which make and sustain effective institutions . |
| 28 | Lévi-Strauss demonstrates this through his well-known discussion of the function of the category of time . |
| 29 | Moreover , if the answer is knowledge of the patient over time , what of the 2.3% of general practitioners and 31.3% of specialists who carried out LAWER on patients whom they knew for less than one month ? |
| 30 | It will make sure that you receive the correct number of copies of the Globe on time each month . |