Example sentences of "former time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronald Fraser was not trying to determine , like certain historians of former times , what his past ‘ really was ’ . |
| 2 | We were at Oxford together , Robert and I , and have often talked the night away in former times , mingling literature and politics and cheap red wine with the cigarette smoke and the laughter and the brittle pile of old Al Bowlly records he had stumbled upon in a junk-shop kept by a one-time Polish airman . |
| 3 | The sword had been the sword of Mudarra in former times , and when Rodrigo held its cross in his hand , he thought within himself that his arm was not weaker than Mudarra 's . |
| 4 | The slate is still worked but not on the scale of former times , Welsh slate having monopolized the roofing market in the Victorian age . |
| 5 | The tale of Tristan and Iseult refers to King Mark of Cornwall as Tristan 's uncle , and by Castle Dore , in former times , stood a seven foot high inscribed stone . |
| 6 | In former times George 's Lane , starting close by the church , toll-house and former inn and running down to the river , was the village 's main link with the outside world and the river Lynher the main artery for trade and industry . |
| 7 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 8 | Yet the reader of medieval literature and letters must be constantly amazed at the degree to which folk with any leisure at all travelled in former times . |
| 9 | Avenida Arriaga was known in former times as the Passéio Público , and there was a tradition of people meeting , talking and walking here . |
| 10 | She is the person who runs the home , and in this her position is the same as that of the peasants and craftsmen of former times — for her , too , work and life merge into one another . |
| 11 | Intellectuals were perturbed by this turnaround and students , previously urged to ‘ emancipate their minds ’ from the fetters of dogma , found themselves once again facing the same old political rhetoric and slogans of former times . |
| 12 | Once a patrician villa , a small terrace in the gardens provides a lush , flower-bedecked retreat after a hectic day 's sightseeing and , within , marble pillars , frescoes and high , painted ceilings remain from former times in the public rooms . |
| 13 | Somehow it conjures images of smuggling days , perhaps because of its standing as the chief gathering place for the seafarers of former times . |
| 14 | China itself was riven with rebellion , and the ruling Qing dynasty was in decline , unable to withstand the depredations of Western traders and governments or to give the leadership it had been able to offer in former times . |
| 15 | The same basic point holds even if the theory of social representations makes a distinction between the common sense of former times and modern , non-commonsensical thinking . |
| 16 | Household prayers , both morning and evening , as conducted by Sir Charles Grandison , are regarded even by Fanny as a practice which , though desirable , is obsolete : ‘ It was a valuable part of former times . |
| 17 | Everything he tells me of former times is suffused with loss . |
| 18 | Although amber can no longer be regarded as among the more precious substances , it was certainly rated as precious in former times . |
| 19 | In 1968 Bentley car formerly owned by Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen and sold for £8000 at auction recently , gave new owner Jacob Rees-Mogg ( son of former Times Editor Lord Rees-Mogg ) a shock when the brakes failed while he was driving along the M4 motorway recently . |
| 20 | As Frances Power Cobbe , a leading Victorian feminist , perceived , the medical profession occupied ‘ with strangely close analogy the position of the priesthood of former times , it assumes the same airs of authority … and enters every family with a latch key of private information ’ . |
| 21 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 22 | But these commissions , mostly for the originals of jokes and cartoons which Willis had managed in former times to sell to magazines , had grown fewer and fewer in the last ten years , as , indeed , had the drawings themselves . |
| 23 | By the end of the seventeenth century a pamphleteer commenting on this tendency could write that now , in contrast to the attitude of former times , ‘ 20,000 Men are accounted great Slaughter ’ . |
| 24 | Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used . |
| 25 | Demographic transition is the movement from the high birth and death rates of former times to a ‘ modern ’ regime of low birth and death rates . |
| 26 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 27 | In former times he might have been a nobleman 's factotum , now I dare say he is a film director 's personal assistant , and he leans forward obsequiously to catch his companion 's every word . |
| 28 | For history work it involves pupils instantly in using evidence ( Attainment Target 3 ) as they search for clues about the high street in former times , — looking at building frontages ( especially the part above the shiny modern shopfront ) , hunting for coal-holes , lamp brackets , investigating letter boxes and many other things , measuring the width of the street in different places . |
| 29 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 30 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |