Example sentences of "to the time of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |
| 2 | Bourke had to do this every time he spoke with Blake up to the time of the escape in October . |
| 3 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 4 | In Newham the cost of services continued to rise slightly to the time of the third assessment , but in Ipswich they dropped back a little . |
| 5 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 6 | The first source of ‘ goodness ’ is to be found in the millions of years of evolution up to the time of the ‘ Dawn of Civilisation ’ . |
| 7 | That the human product of the evolutionary process was wholly ‘ good ’ up to the time of the start of civilisation has to be designated an unalienable ‘ truth ’ . |
| 8 | We are now coming to the time of the year when paddlers start competing again in marathons and it would be nice to remember the ancient Greeks who started it all off . |
| 9 | The Poles had maintained a very efficient educational system under a special national commission up to the time of the partition . |
| 10 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 11 | ‘ Dr Latimer , I hope you 'll agree that your presence on the 614 so close to the time of the crime appears to be something of a coincidence ? ’ |
| 12 | Their heritage can be traced back to the time of the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC , when the Jews were taken captive into exile by the Babylonians . |
| 13 | Some of the earliest material ( i.e. object-types which are found both on the Continent and in England ) was dated by reference to the historical sources : ‘ the oldest brooches belong to the time of the invasion ’ ( 156 ) . |
| 14 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 15 | The earliest known frescoes date to the time of the second temples , i.e. from 1700 BC onwards . |
| 16 | In order to fully understand an alarm reaction it is useful to think back many thousands of years to the time of the caveman . |
| 17 | Eusebius traces them to the time of the Emperor Trajan , A.D. 98–117 . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 19 | A little later , to the time of the ‘ Polygnotan ’ red-figure vases , belongs a very small piece , not a cup-interior but the slightly domed surface of a covered cup ( fig. 112 ; one can just see the orifice for drinking at the bottom ) . |
| 20 | It stands gaunt and grey , but today has found a peaceful role in the new Arbon , housing a museum which illustrates life in the area right back to the time of the Roman and beyond . |
| 21 | Up to the time of the publication of the Bullock Report ( DES , 1975 ) , it looked as if the movement towards a serious consideration of language was irreversible . |
| 22 | He had learnt about it much closer to the time of the murder . |
| 23 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 24 | It was held that there had been no breach of the condition as to title because that condition related to the time of the sale . |
| 25 | To be fair — after all , if I do not do it , I am sure that someone else will — I shall go back to the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 26 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 27 | As Jespersen points out , " here we have a reference to an event that is past , or at any rate contemporaneous , in relation to the time of the main verb " , that is , just the opposite sequence of events to that which our hypothesis should have led us to expect . |