Example sentences of "[verb] in modern times " in BNC.
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| 1 | To French builders , admitted a British historian of the early nineteenth century , ‘ is primarily owing the energetical improvement made in modern times in the form , dimensions , and general contour of vessels ’ . |
| 2 | In actual practice , except when its life was extended in the World Wars , that limit has never been reached in modern times . |
| 3 | The distinction between virtue and goodness was not understood in modern times . |
| 4 | More interesting , in the context of this chapter , is the fact that these developments and the confusion in Marx 's own writings have generated an internal debate amongst Marxists over what he really meant and how his initial insights ought to be understood in modern times . |
| 5 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 6 | The study of such curves , originating perhaps in the Ancient Greek spiral , can be traced in modern times from the work of Giuseppe Peano in 1890 and Helge von Koch in 1904 to Mandelbrot 's book , Fractals : Form , Chance and Dimension ( 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 8 | Manualists , nevertheless , do not generally advocate exclusive reliance on manual communication , but favour the " combined system " , known in modern times as " total communication " . |
| 9 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 10 | Several laws have been passed in modern times to restrict dangerous activities and to impose criminal sanctions on citizens who fail to protect themselves against injury — for example , the offences of failing to wear a safety helmet when riding a motor cycle , and failing to wear a safety harness when travelling in the front seat of a car . |
| 11 | This attachment to a strong appearance — reality distinction is most often expressed in modern times as ‘ structuralism , . |
| 12 | Like Lessing in modern times , he had an extraordinary critical talent , which constantly stimulated his productive artistic impulse . |
| 13 | Contributing factors include a very dry , hot summer which helps the algae to flourish , along with the residue of pesticides from farms and effluent from factories which , although greatly improved in modern times and now controlled , have left a residue on the loch bottom which still caused problems . |
| 14 | An English radical commented in 1887 that ‘ the present position of the European world is one in which sheer force holds a larger place than it has held in modern times since the fall of Napoleon ’ . |