Example sentences of "for all time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knowledge that is discovered using these methods is regarded as objective and factual , i.e. it is correct for all times and all places , and is not going to be different according to who discovers it . |
| 2 | Freud 's view of science is not that of a simple empiricist , who assumes that , once something has been discovered in science , it remains true for all times , and that one day science will have discovered nearly all we need to know about the world and ourselves . |
| 3 | Some believe that it is normative in an absolute sense ; that Christ revealed what is to be believed ( for example about divorce ) for all times . |
| 4 | It resembles the pictures of dancers frozen for all time by the potters who made the Greek vases just to display their feats . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Now and for all time in the future , human skills and human talents will be the major determinants of success or failure — not just for individuals but for a whole society in all of its social , cultural and commercial life . ’ |
| 6 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 7 | Marx was pointing out that the capitalist assumption that what motivates man everywhere and for all time is the search for profit , is totally misleading and is itself a product of capitalism . |
| 8 | In short , this is a fine ‘ Wind in the Willows ’ for the 1990s ; but neither Mr Bennett nor Mr Milne has written the stage version for all time . |
| 9 | First , I saw that she was chosen , and that for all time ‘ all generations will call [ her ] blessed ’ ( Luke 1.48 ) . |
| 10 | And so that he might ensure that our island would be his for all time , he instructed his hordes to slaughter all the children on Møn . |
| 11 | Without the emergence of Hitler and his National Socialists all that was rotten in Germany , that had been positively fostered by Romanticism and encouraged by the humiliation that Germany had suffered under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles — racism , social Darwinism , anti-intellectualism , phoney mysticism — might have persisted indefinitely and gradually eaten away the fabric of the country and its culture , gone unchallenged by the forces of reason , lain for all time under layers of sophistry . … |
| 12 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 13 | Progressive taxation must be outlawed for all time ; educational qualifications for jurors must be introduced ; the voting age must be raised to 21 and suffrage extended to dogs of three years or more , subject to simple intelligence tests . |
| 14 | In this case , it would be hard to find language indicating more clearly that Mr Clayton intended the land to be preserved and managed as playing fields for all time , or at least for as long as the law permitted . |
| 15 | One of the most frightening aspects of all intelligence agencies is the manner in which they create a totally false brand of patriotism in order to further a particular cause on the spurious grounds that only they understand what needs to be done and should not be asked to account or explain for any of their actions which must remain secret for all time . |
| 16 | But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time . |
| 17 | Is not the Christian church a church for all men , for all time ? |
| 18 | Do we build a house to stand for ever , do we seal a contract to hold for all time ? |
| 19 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |
| 20 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 21 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 22 | They feel , for example , that St Paul 's restrictions on women 's activities — in the early Christian communities to whom he was writing — are to be seen as regulations applying in all situations in the Church for all time . |
| 23 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 24 | This is clearly not a once and for all time decision . |
| 25 | He was a magnificent winger : a ball player with plenty of craft , but fast , clever and with a lethal shot — skills that have etched his name for all time into the Palace record books . |
| 26 | These leaders provided truly great contributions to the items of ‘ goodness ’ which can thus be enshrined , for not only did they themselves set the seal of ‘ good ’ , for all time , on numerous human actions , but they influenced millions of others to do likewise . |
| 27 | To some extent , little or much , the Created God has been in course of production all over the world for all time . |
| 28 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 29 | CATHERINE ZETA JONES : For All Time |
| 30 | ‘ It would be wrong to rule out military action for all time . ’ |