Example sentences of "in [noun] 's time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in Bore 's time , minutes refer to horse-drawn vehicles of various types manufactured at Wolverton . |
| 2 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
| 3 | The wood in Kingsley 's time contained many foreign and coniferous species , introduced by an earlier , eighteenth-century owner . |
| 4 | There were certainly explosions in laboratories in Davy 's time , and Faraday 's chance came when his master was disabled after working with nitrogen trihalides ; here they did wear goggles , but in general precautions were few . |
| 5 | On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August . |
| 6 | Thus in Edward 's time St Martin-le-Grand in London was founded by Ingelric , apparently a chaplain of the Confessor 's of German origin , which in fact performed this function , and was almost certainly intended to . |
| 7 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the Germans and others who in Freud 's time were antisemitic , but who had not yet , as far as it was known , introduced the Final Solution , had been coerced into Christianity quite recently in their history . |
| 9 | But the consequences of an unresolved oedipus complex look quite different today from the way they looked in Freud 's time . |
| 10 | If size of following were proof of quality , then Glazunov would be a candidate for the title of greatest living artist : in Brezhnev 's time ( he was the premier 's favourite artist ) he ingratiated himself by playing on the sentimental Slavic strand in Soviet life with ‘ symphonic canvases [ which ] overflow with the dreams and feeling of the Russian people ’ . |
| 11 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
| 12 | Echolocation in bats , although unknown in Paley 's time , would have served his purpose just as well as any of his examples . |
| 13 | Mail hauberk of the kind worn by the crusaders in Richard 's time . |
| 14 | Though beginning to go out of fashion in Richard 's time , many of his soldiers would still have worn it . |
| 15 | In Edgar 's time most of the bishops had been monks ; by the mid eleventh century they were mostly , as in Germany , royal chaplains . |
| 16 | The Origin shows that the position of women and the family , as it existed in Engels 's time , not an unchallengeable datum , based on eternal principles , but the temporary product of the period , a product which will and must be overthrown . |
| 17 | The Christianity that coalesced and took shape in Constantine 's time was in fact a hybrid , containing significant skeins of thought derived from Mithraism and from the sun cult . |
| 18 | Why should the Roman Church in Constantine 's time have adopted such a position , theologically so scandalous ? |
| 19 | In Constantine 's time , Christian tradition had not yet become immutable dogma . |
| 20 | A century later , in Constantine 's time , Nazarean teaching was still thriving and being disseminated . |
| 21 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 22 | In Turner 's time art was very international . |
| 23 | All in all , the Soviet people came , through bitter experience of arbitrary justice in Stalin 's time , to appreciate the value of an impartial , consistent and reliable judicial system . |
| 24 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
| 25 | Work on several aspects of policy for the Bill had already been put in hand in Soskice 's time . |
| 26 | There was , he pointed out , no such article in the first Soviet constitution , adopted in Lenin 's time . |
| 27 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 28 | ( See further p. 266 for Thessalian cavalry in Alexander 's time . ) |
| 29 | In Darwin 's time everybody ( except Mendel who , tucked away in his monastery , was unfortunately ignored until after his death ) thought that inheritance was blending . |
| 30 | In Botticelli 's time this could have included a linseed oil and lead white mixture or , more frequently , a ground based on bone white ( from pulverised bone ) , combined with gum water ( gum arabic ) , or parchment size ( from goat skin ) . |