Example sentences of "be in [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 3 | I have been , I have been in my time ! |
| 4 | Moynihan had been in his time a University cox and a flyweight boxing blue , and barely came up to her elbow . |
| 5 | They were in their time incomparably more famous and influential than Marx , whose Capital was described in 1875 by an anonymous German expert as the work of a self-educated man ignorant of the progress of the past twenty-five years . |
| 6 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 7 | The principles of homoeopathy , as laid down by Hahnemann , are as valid today as they were in his time . |
| 8 | One evening he said jokingly , " I do n't suppose you get beaten at school nowadays , not like we were in my time . " |
| 9 | During the planning of Magnum 's In Our Time exhibition , Kodak UK decided to limit the funds available for the traditional party-style reception , and set the money aside for educational use instead . |
| 10 | It was yo-yo 's in my time yo-yo 's and parasols . |
| 11 | I ca n't even tell you so it 's in my time plan , I 'll show you . |
| 12 | And you can go on and on about how it is in your time , and how people have different attitudes towards … towards sexual intimacy . |
| 13 | One must , however , question d'Ohsson 's and Hammer 's statements that Hizir Bey became the premier Mufti , and , as is explicit in d'Ohsson and implicit in Hammer , that it is in his time that the office of Mufti originated or at least first gained importance . |
| 14 | He went over on the valuation when the pub changed hands — that was in my time — as part of the stock ! ) |
| 15 | That was in my time . |
| 16 | Aristotle knows of a time in which the constitution of Massalia had been even more oligarchic than it was in his time ( Pol . |
| 17 | The claim is that one of the first to mark out John Smith 's future political career was the Labour leader , Hugh Gaitskell , who was in his time characterised and vilified as being right-wing . |