Example sentences of "own time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This directive encourages officers to research and study in their own time and lists suitable subjects , which include ‘ public administration , management studies , economics , law , criminology , social sciences , youth work , English language and literature and relevant modern languages ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 3 | Yet Les Noces was also of its own time , 1923 . |
| 4 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses — farmers can use it to do their accounts , women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors , publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati . |
| 6 | However , the more popular recipe is empathy , achieved by having the patience to allow the complainant sufficient time to air the problem ( reinforcing the importance of allowing neighbourhood police autonomy to manage their own time ) , coupled with displays of sympathy , understanding , and even agreement . |
| 7 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 8 | His exposing of the inanity and hideousness for his own time of the rites which underlay Sweeney Agonistes only helped confirm his choice of the only religion whose rituals seemed open and potent to him . |
| 9 | ' . Doubtless , the relevance of these remarks to Eliot 's view of his own time attracted him to them . |
| 10 | It was after this critique of Lawrence 's attitude to the modern industrial civilization and the savage world , joined to his own prophetic Christian stance towards his own time , that Eliot returned to London and the writing of The Rock . |
| 11 | Homi Bhabha , in a significant essay arguing the urgent need to re-engage with Fanon in and for our own time , shows why . |
| 12 | Gutenberg tried to mimic the gothic calligraphy of his own time when he invented modern printing , because anything else would have been hard to read . |
| 13 | This , I think , is a clear example of the way Bible writers filled out the past quite boldly , introducing modifications from their own time . |
| 14 | But there are limits , and we are told by scientists that those limits are being reached in our own time . |
| 15 | Fire in your own time ! |
| 16 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 17 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 18 | As a woman who is young in years by our own standards but who is thought old by those of her own time . |
| 19 | ‘ An example from the history of our own time is a lady of the high nobility , who had an invincible loathing for her first husband , although he was first among all subjects . … ’ |
| 20 | They both allow people to choose their own time horizons , which can be anything from two to 25 years . |
| 21 | The event also required school teachers giving up their own time for youngsters . |
| 22 | Back Up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers is based on his own time as a water-filter salesman , ringing on doorbells and brow-beating mug-punters into believing that their lives wo n't be complete without the little gizmo on offer ( at £230 plus VAT ) . |
| 23 | Mr Bob Wybrow of Gallup reckons that year by year only about a tenth of his own time is occupied with politics , and ‘ about two per cent of the organisation 's time ’ , though of course this doubles in an election year . |
| 24 | The film makers of 1938 slipped in , behind Shaw 's back , a sentimental ending in which Eliza improbably returned to Higgins and in our own time the play has become operetta fodder . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 26 | She gave much of her own time to helping those encountering problems with their studies through individual tuition at her home , frequently during the summer months in preparation for autumn courses . |
| 27 | The freedom to travel to and from your chosen resort in your own time — as long as you arrive and depart from the resort on the same day as our other clients . |
| 28 | He also put in much of his own time and appeared to have a way of solving most problems . |
| 29 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 30 | 16.32 Teachers should encourage pupils to read independently in their own time , and to discuss with others their own favourite reading . |