Example sentences of "from the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 2 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 3 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 4 | George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) . |
| 5 | Right from the times of the giant horsetails and ferns , insects had been accustomed to visiting the tops of trees to gather spores as food . |
| 6 | Opposition to the Shah 's regime was disparate — fragments of the old National Front , a survival from the times of Mossadeq in the 1940s and 1950s ; a miscellany of resurgent Islamic and minor left-wing groups ; the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party ; disappointed businessmen who perceived the hand of the Shah 's family behind every deal they failed to clinch ; and smaller traders who resented the Shah 's busying himself with high prices in the bazaar . |
| 7 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 8 | Lynda Hillyer , head of textile conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , is concerned with the care of fragile and valuable textiles from the time of Tutankhamun . |
| 9 | From the time of the Falklands War , it was certain that the Tories would win the next general election , and that Mrs Thatcher would gain new stature as Prime Minister . |
| 10 | In the longer run the accentuation of the sterling area policy , and its apparent success , especially in the explosion of colonial dollar-earning from the time of the Korean War commodity boom , re-established the pound as a major currency , a role which seemed unlikely in 1945 . |
| 11 | This is especially true in the context of Latin America where this kind of duality and fusion has been a feature of culture from the time of the conquest right up until today — both on the popular and the intellectual level . |
| 12 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 13 | From the time of Mr Bush 's speech to the UN General Assembly in October to the last-minute pleas of Javier Perez de Cuellar , the UN secretary-general , an array of sweeteners was on offer . |
| 14 | Locke 's belief in the relevance of reason to religion and morality , and his claim that salvation can be won on its basis alone , were common from the time of the Restoration into the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 16 | Early medieval monasticism was largely based on the Rule of St Benedict , at least from the time of St Boniface onwards , but with the liturgical side of the Rule greatly elaborated . |
| 17 | From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent . |
| 18 | This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth . |
| 19 | Horses that are well handled from the time of being foals are most unlikely to be aggressive towards us . |
| 20 | It stems right back from the time of Adam and Eve . |
| 21 | Previously , from the time of the late Roman emperors to the late Middle Ages , coins had borne representations of rulers , but these were only generic images of royalty rather than individual portraits . |
| 22 | But this attitude changed from the time of Alexander the Great ( 336–323BC ) ( fig. 14 ) . |
| 23 | Her later career , from the time of her marriage to Darnley in the summer of 1565 , inevitably gave rise to writing of a very different and much more partisan nature . |
| 24 | This began before the war , from the time of the Munich agreement in 1938 , for it was then that the Communist Party was made illegal . |
| 25 | THE collections in the National Museum are impressive : an entire Roman mosaic floor from the time of Marcus Aurelian and a beautiful stele of Orpheus playing to the animals . |
| 26 | ‘ The air ambulance can go anywhere in Cornwall and is on the scene in nine minutes from the time of getting the 999 call , on average , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Frankish warrior from the time of Charlemagne . |
| 28 | If you take our recommended holiday insurance with the Eagle Star group and your baggage is not delivered within 12 hours from the time of arrival at your holiday destination due to delay or misdirection in delivery , you are covered up to £100 for essential purchases . |
| 29 | The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery . |
| 30 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |