Example sentences of "of time was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the level of the Nikol'sk village Soviet a high proportion of time was spent on tax problems . |
| 2 | For the part-time farmer lack of time was often associated with fatigue , with an hour or two of manual work being added to a 7 to 8 hour working day . |
| 3 | Many in South Wales also chose this method of combating a drop in returns and yet we have already seen that lack of time was a likely constraint in the future . |
| 4 | By far the greatest amount of time was spent in journeys to town for spare parts , veterinary medicines , etc. , or as in one case , where the wife was particularly active , to check the livestock prices with a view to selling cattle . |
| 5 | Lack of time was one factor , for many women now had work outside the home as well as family responsibilities . |
| 6 | The establishment of time was now of the essence ; conflicting evidence came from all quarters . |
| 7 | To what degree , however , such a view of time was developed in Mesopotamian thought is not revealed by the cuneiform records , although according to Seneca the late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus ( c.300 BC ) believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe . |
| 8 | The significance of time was , of course , implicit in the eschatological character of Zoroastrianism . |
| 9 | Long before the time of Aristoxenus , some of the most acute Greek thinkers had found that the concept of time was difficult to reconcile with their idea of rationality . |
| 10 | Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger . |
| 11 | One of the most significant features characterizing the Hebrew experience of time was the ‘ contemporaneity of past and future ’ . |
| 12 | Plotinus believed that the origin of time was to be found in the life of the world-soul . |
| 13 | This atomistic view of time was associated with a drastically contingent and acausal concept of the world , its existence at one instant not implying its existence at any subsequent instant . |
| 14 | This type of eschatological view of time was , of course , not confined to Islam , for we find it also in Zoroastrianism , Judaism , and early and medieval Christianity . |
| 15 | In the Vedic period the abstract idea of time was regarded as the fundamental principle of the universe , but whether it was made into a deity is uncertain . |
| 16 | Their conception of time was magical and polytheistic . |
| 17 | The need for punctuality was not due to any desire for ‘ saving time ’ but because the strict regulation of time was needed to help maintain the discipline of monastic life . |
| 18 | In England , belief in the uniformity of time was greatly influenced by the Puritans in their strong opposition to the practices of the Roman Church , in particular to the idea of special days in the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 19 | This shift of time was not apparent in the woman Sandison had just seen . |
| 20 | I said I thought a great deal of time was taken up with Committees . |
| 21 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 22 | Having read this I was drawn to the words of the Apostle Paul when he wrote ‘ But when the fulness of time was come , God sent forth his Son , made of a woman , made under the law , to redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . ’ |
| 23 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 24 | No extension of time was permitted beyond the scheduled hours of the games . |
| 25 | Lady Isobel 's idea of time was elastic . |
| 26 | A brief look at the content of the women 's programme gives us a flavour of how homosexuality was represented : a good deal of time was devoted to an interview with Steve , a prospective female-to-male transsexual ( displaying a common confusion with homosexuality and transsexuality ) . |
| 27 | During the first consultation a great deal of time was taken up listening to Maxine 's story and reassuring her that her problem was not incapable of being solved , although at that stage I was not quite certain how long this would take . |
| 28 | A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks . |
| 29 | A still more ambitious project was the publication in 1948 of Time Was Away : A Notebook in Corsica , with spine and typography designed by Keith Vaughan . |
| 30 | Standardisation of time was necessary because cancer incidence is rising slowly in the west of Scotland and because prescribing atenolol increased greatly during the period of study ( fig 1 ) . |