Example sentences of "sense [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a sense of rhythm our sense of time is devoid of landmarks . |
| 2 | Without a sense of rhythm , our sense of time is devoid of landmarks ’ and , as Frank Howes added later , ‘ and sense ’ ( see page 68 ) . |
| 3 | Do individuals lose all sense of time and become erratic , or do they maintain a rhythmicity in their lifestyle and bodily functions ? |
| 4 | Through Christ , God has made sense of time , and the moment of his ‘ breaking in ’ becomes the moment of discovery , hope and salvation . |
| 5 | ‘ She has lost all sense of time . |
| 6 | If there should be trees out there , swaying in the wind , then he would know that he had lost all sense of time and place and personal identity . |
| 7 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 8 | This absence of a continuous sense of time made an exact computation of past centuries extremely difficult , particularly because of co-regencies , parallel reigns and fictitious reigns . |
| 9 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 10 | As Keith Thomas has pointed out , ‘ This change in working habits constituted an important step towards the social acceptance of the modern notion of time as even in quality , as opposed to the primitive sense of time , s unevenness and irregularity . ’ |
| 11 | He had lost all sense of time and place . |
| 12 | She had lost all sense of time ; she still dressed in the fashions of the late 1880s . |
| 13 | They had lost all sense of time and did not know how long their night had lasted , whether dawn was near or far . |
| 14 | Her sense of time is utterly bewitching : she floats phrases across bar-lines , stretches vowel sounds or shrinks a line in such a way that indifferent melodies are made to sound stronger than they are . |
| 15 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 16 | She did not greet him , but drew him quickly inside into another wide marble-floored hall , so similar in form to the previous one , with its glittering crystal lights and its wide forked staircase , that for a moment he felt only confusion , a sense of time warped , speeding him at once back and forwards . |
| 17 | Many players totally ignore the triplet subdivision approach , and end up developing their sense of time only in relation to eighths and sixteenth grooves . |
| 18 | Her sense of time may vanish , and her normal sense of self . |
| 19 | An expanded sense of time . |
| 20 | Arabs always seem to be either in a great hurry or without any sense of time at all . |
| 21 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 22 | This sense of time or sensation of time , which is always a private and individual experience , can only be achieved through the language of art : nature does n't do it ; furniture does n't do it ; design does n't do it ; architecture rarely does it . |
| 23 | At this date he rarely bought without consulting Colin , but as neither man had any real sense of time , their meetings required considerable stage-management . |
| 24 | I left with no passion for any single plant or creature but for all of Nature — its ruthless innocence , its secretiveness and startling revelations , the changing seasons and sense of time in a whole that was timeless , like the best of childhood . |
| 25 | But both are attempts to make the present transparent to a more inclusive and fluid sense of time and consequence " ( APERTURE , No.98 ) . |
| 26 | As already pointed out , many middle-aged people have a sense of time lost and it is not unusual for resentment and opposition to arise to the ideas and activities of those who are seen as more fortunate . |
| 27 | Travelling in the TARDIS messed with your sense of time . |
| 28 | Thus , oral culture is said to be full , rich and immediate , and to result in collective social experience , a wholeness of awareness and a mythic rather than linear sense of time . |
| 29 | By contrast , literacy ( more particularly print , which carries writing 's homogeneous , mechanical , repeatable , linear qualities to an extreme ) is narrow , flat , partial , detached , and results in private experience , a single point of view , a split between ‘ heart ’ and ‘ head ’ , and an ‘ objective I , linear sense of time Literacy is linked with the device of perspective in painting , individualism in literature and philosophy , personal expression and rational construction in music ; also , more widely , with the development of social uniformity , political centralization , empirical science and assembly-line production . |
| 30 | In music reflecting the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , by contrast , we find consciously manipulated musical structures , individually composed and divorced from social life ; developing , through-composed forms , depending on analytic memory ; major-minor tonality and harmony ( which encode the centralized , hierarchical structure of capitalist society ) ; ‘ idealization ’ and ‘ abstraction ’ of sound , through cultivation of ‘ pure ’ timbre and exact pitch ; and pronounced regular rhythmic patterns ( which , together with the ‘ pull ’ of harmonic progression and the vertical synchronization of parts , encode an objective , spatialized sense of time ) . |