Example sentences of "their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life With Lyle by Sandy Lyle 's caddie , Dave Musgrove , breaks the mould , being a record , kept by Musgrove , of their times together during a period when Lyle won three events in America , including the US Masters , and three events in Europe , including the World Match Play Championship . |
| 2 | And even characters who seem unconvincing become enjoyable representatives of their times . |
| 3 | Great attention was paid to the pollution which resulted from contact with them during these periods , with vital purification rituals being prescribed to avert the danger to both individuals and community ( in particular , the male religious community , see below ) and restrictions imposed on their movement , particularly with regard access to the cult , during their times of uncleanness . |
| 4 | So , according to the laws of Leviticus , women were forbidden to enter the Temple or touch any hallowed thing during their times of menstrual uncleanness , whilst with regard to childbirth they were similarly removed from cultic activity , this time for forty days following delivery of a boy and significantly eighty days after that of a girl . |
| 5 | Its rationale shifted but its purpose in one respect at least remained , and orthodox women to this day follow through the ritual of purification at the mikva every month and abstain from physical contact with their husbands during their times of bleeding and for seven days thereafter ( = two weeks every month ) . |
| 6 | But even making allowance for the circumstances of their times , it is impossible to save the Protestant reformers from their own political philosophy , which finds its clearest statement in the old Scots Covenants , documents much loved by Ulster conservative Protestants and the model for many unionist statements of political faith . |
| 7 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |
| 8 | As Beryl Smalley has said , ‘ The concept of the six ages saddled medieval historiographers with a gloomy picture of their times . ’ |
| 9 | Trams & Their Times |
| 10 | Learn as much as you can about Plato , Socrates and their times . |
| 11 | Their times are added after each day 's stage . |
| 12 | Both exploited to the utmost the greatest telescopic resources of their times , and for both many of their discoveries resulted from massive programmes of systematic investigations . |
| 13 | For every bright-eyed wagon train or trail blazing adventure , there are a dozen Westerns dealing with lawmen or outlaws who have outlived their times and now find themselves constrained by the pettiness of a civilisation which is rarely grateful for the way they have cleared the ground for its progress . |
| 14 | ‘ Origins of the Present Crisis ’ , published in New Left Review in 1964 , and ‘ Components of the National Culture ’ , four years later , were texts of their times that excited a generation which , at least in many of the social sciences and humanities , now commands the heights of the academic system even if their radicalism has been dulled by more recent discontents . |
| 15 | By the way it is expressed it becomes a word from God to them , at their level of understanding , indigenous and applicable to their times and struggles . |
| 16 | It can also help to emphasize to the counsellees the value and significance of their lives , and the part they have played in the history of their times . |
| 17 | Stereolab always look tonight as if they 've got a few more tricks up their sleeve than anyone else around at the moment , and in an age where recycling the past to create a spurious version of the future is the order of the day , they may well prove to be a benchmark of quality for their times . |
| 18 | If Waugh and Orwell did not exactly despise the complexities of Modernism , Joyce-style or Eliot-style , at least they recognised , and early , that such complexities were not for their times and not for them . |
| 19 | Kathleen Tillotson 's Novels of the 1840s ( 1954 ) linked the fiction of Dickens , Thackeray , Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës to the social history of their times , exploring the techniques of serial publication , and in a concentrated masterpiece of creative scholarship it demonstrated how intimately public events affect literature , and literature in its turn events . |
| 20 | It was the logic of their medium ( the camera filmed what it saw ) and the need for stories that led producers to film aspects of their times but in the movies themselves the supremacy of fiction relegated society to a background . |
| 21 | A few of the better examples are of superior Dwarf workmanship , and on these can be read Dwarf runes which tell something of the history of the Emperors and their times . |
| 22 | And if they do , will they feel their times has been well rewarded ? |
| 23 | No politician , whether a great magnate intent on retaining a traditional dominance in his region , a minister of the crown seeking favourable returns for his administration , or a landowner merely wishing to make a good figure in his own county , could manage without access to patronage with which to reward his friends ' loyalty by helping them in their times of need . |
| 24 | This is a history of the media , rather than of their times . |
| 25 | Novels in any genre reflect the temper of their times and , in practical terms , are affected by changes in popular taste . |
| 26 | Mornings were their times for baths . |
| 27 | They are the product of their times , of their followers , of their opportunities . |
| 28 | The blinds of the houses were always drawn to different levels , since each of the rooms was let to a different lodger , and their times of getting up and going to bed were different . |
| 29 | Other Paris-based names , such as Pierre Balmain , Pierre Cardin , Louis Féraud , Hubert de Givenchy , Ted Lapidus , Guy Laroche and Paco Rabanne , have all had their times of influence , but only Yves St Laurent rivals Christian Dior 's position . |
| 30 | The foundations of the popularity of the seamen were laid at the end of the fifteenth century with the voyages of discovery of Bartholomew Diaz , Vasco da Gama , John Cabot and Christopher Columbus — the space explorers of their times . |