Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 2 | Has Reger 's time finally come ? |
| 3 | The judges themselves , deriving their authority from the Crown , were minded in the distant past to delegate , and the undisputed view in Lord Mansfield 's time was that the judges had delegated their disciplinary power over the Bar to the Inns of Court . |
| 4 | In Edgar 's time most of the bishops had been monks ; by the mid eleventh century they were mostly , as in Germany , royal chaplains . |
| 5 | Rather , in these days when computers are capable of most things , and electronic safeguards have become commonplace in even the steadfastly-traditional confines of Wimbledon , the Jockey Club 's time would be better spent discussing innovations that would make the 1994 Grand National , and all its successors , worthy of the event . |
| 6 | He kept Bulgaria close to the Soviet Union , particularly during Brezhnev 's time , but has been unable to cope with President Gorbachev 's move towards democracy and openness . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Runner-up David Broome — at 51 proving he is still a major world threat — could only get to within just under three seconds of Bost 's time . |
| 9 | The ‘ opaque ’ areas of experience , of institutions , and daily living , if they had not disappeared by Gregory 's time , had become absorbed into a Christian universe as translucent parts . |
| 10 | The lawyer 's time will add to costs and is unlikely to result in time savings at a later stage . |
| 11 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
| 12 | You pay for people 's time , including managers ' time , credit department 's time , typists ' time , administrative staff 's time , sales representatives ' time , as well as having to contribute your own time as well . |
| 13 | This wastes the journalist 's time . |
| 14 | Some 90 per cent of the adviser 's time is spent on medical appeal tribunals and reviews of Department of Social Security benefits for disabled people . |
| 15 | Advice has been received that such work would not be more than 5% of the adviser 's time . |
| 16 | That apart , I believe that the Lothian funding partnership now needs to consider the Issue of fee earning in relation to the national agreement , the consequences of such work on the adviser 's time , and the demands of this type which will certainly arise in the next three years . |
| 17 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 18 | Chapter 2 is an extended discussion of a particular example , " radar " in bats , discovered long after Paley 's time . |
| 19 | Echolocation in bats , although unknown in Paley 's time , would have served his purpose just as well as any of his examples . |
| 20 | In Sir Walter Scott 's time — and he was , after all , born twenty-five years after Culloden — Scotland still uttered the name Cumberland ‘ with an infant hatred ’ . |
| 21 | If the text is accurate , it would seem to indicate that the three kadiliks of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne were all originally registered as 300-akce kadiliks and that their registration had not been changed by Hezarfen 's time , although all three outranked Damascus and Aleppo at least until the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 23 | Hezarfen likewise classifies muftis as being of two types : either the Seyhulislam — who , from well before Hezarfen 's time , had acted as Mufti for the whole of the — or kenar muftileri . |
| 24 | Lowthorpe is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book , where it is spelt Logetorp , and in King Edward the Confessor 's time it was valued at the princely sum of eight shillings . |
| 25 | Hemming says that Brihtheah 's were made because he was from Berkshire and had no relatives in Worcestershire , and in Edward the Confessor 's time Bishop Hermann complained that nobody could hold the see of Ramsbury without the help of kinsmen . |
| 26 | This type of simplistic explanation of primitive societies has dogged Marxist anthropology since Engels 's time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 29 | If more than one man is still in contention for the yellow jersey by the time the reaches Tours , then Friday 's time trial will be the decider . |
| 30 | The word comes straight from the Greek meaning ‘ nature ’ ; and it did not acquire its narrower modern sense until about Helmholtz 's time . |