Example sentences of "in the time of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 2 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 3 | We live back in the time of fairy tales . |
| 4 | These determined sects emerged in the time of toleration as the early centres of Dissent . |
| 5 | Finally , pneumatic drills have been sparingly employed to uncover the surface of the main road into the town built during the expansion of the city in the time of Domitian . |
| 6 | At this moment of consummation ( and the image is surely sexual as well ) , and in the time of relief following , the poet gives up his struggle and allows the ‘ sacred river ’ to draw him to its ‘ lifeless ’ conclusion : to struggle for control in the river is to be controlled by it . |
| 7 | Back in the time of idealism it all seemed to connect : you trained more young people and the ‘ educated ’ sector of the economy would expand as a result . |
| 8 | ‘ It is said that in the time of Shang they would take a tortoise shell and cover it with ink , then throw it into a fire . |
| 9 | Timed matings can be used to aid synchronization , but palpation is always advisable owing to the normal spread in the time of parturition . |
| 10 | Firstly , because there are wide variations between different ethnic groups in the time of arrival in this country and their age on entry , the numbers of those who have reached advanced years , in general small , differs greatly between groups . |
| 11 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |
| 12 | The measurement is derived from the very small difference in the time of arrival of signals received at different telescopes from a distant radio source ( usually a quasar ) . |
| 13 | Aside from using it twice in relation to Abdulkerim , he uses it on only three other occasions , at least in his articles concerned with the Muftis under consideration : first , in the general statement which forms the basis for his rejection of the Muftilik of Molla Yegan to the effect that all the ulema are empowered to give fetvas ; second , in connection with Molla Yegan himself ; and third , twice in regard to Molla Shaykh " Abd al-Karim al-Kadiri ( Seyh Abdulkerim ) , who seems to have held an ad hominem muftilik , not connected with the Muftilik of Istanbul , in the time of Suleyman . |
| 14 | Continuing demands by the Church of the colleges and courses for ever more subjects , without any increase in the time of training , means that priorities have to be set . |
| 15 | On Jan. 6 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 726 which " strongly condemned " the issuing of the deportation order , and the Security Council reaffirmed the applicability of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in the time of war to all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 , including Jerusalem . |
| 16 | Marital : Many a parental marriage is broken by the amount of focus put on the problems of the child primary sufferer rather than Upon improving the marital relationship and giving each other support in the time of crisis . |