Example sentences of "of the [noun] of time " in BNC.
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1 | These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 . |
2 | First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The thrilling secrets of the birth of time . ’ |
6 | Its model is not unlike that of the language-game of time . |
7 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
8 | The kitchen clock reminded him sharply of the passage of time , and urgency lent cunning to the rector 's stratagems . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Once his paintings were finished , Joni applied a treatment designed to replicate the effects of the passage of time : loss of pigment , cracks , scratches . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | We were oblivious of the passage of time . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Lévi-Strauss demonstrates this through his well-known discussion of the function of the category of time . |
21 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
22 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
23 | Because of the lack of time I shall draw attention to a recently published report entitled ’ UK Energy Policy Post-Privatisation ’ which was written by Professor Fells . |
24 | Our subjective sense of the direction of time , the psychological arrow of time , is therefore determined within our brain by the thermodynamic arrow of time . |
25 | In spite of the distances of time and culture , we also discover that we can learn from the great men and women of faith who lived before us . |
26 | One regular cross-examiner , Francis Stoner , compared taking part in the inquiry to clambering aboard a ‘ sanitized juggernaut , where there is a suspension of the laws of time , a vortex which can drain energy from people ’ . |
27 | These are the kinds of issues which an analysis of curriculum balance needs to address , and the head will need to be clear that the heart of the matter is the question of the deployment of time in ways which allow adequate attention to all parts of a curriculum . |
28 | Moreover , the development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man 's appreciation of the significance of time . |
29 | Nevertheless , by the latter part of the fifth century BC there was a greater general awareness of the significance of time than there had been previously . |
30 | An attempt to answer this question , and one which in the opinion of S. G. F. Brandon shows some consciousness of the significance of the factor of time , was made by a late Zoroastrian priest renowned for his orthodoxy . |