Example sentences of "in [pron] own day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could only suppose that the collapse of space-time in my own day was slowly spreading outwards from source , like a bloodstain oozing across an old sheet , threatening many deep-seated continuities . |
| 2 | Possibly the time slips in my own day were already dying out . |
| 3 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 4 | Had n't it happened to her , in her own day ? |
| 5 | While the Mercersburg theology as such was short-lived , and made relatively little impact in its own day , it presaged the emergence of the ecumenical movement some two to three generations later , and to a remarkable extent anticipated some of that movement 's central themes and concerns . |
| 6 | THOMAS SHADWELL was a successful dramatist in his own day , but he made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Dryden . |
| 7 | Baxter heard of whole households being converted through reading this book in his own day . |
| 8 | But equally , Gale gives no indication that he himself has understood how obviously ridiculous Lamarck 's theories of physics and chemistry were in his own day — and it was on these that his theory of evolution was based . |
| 9 | In his own day the two kinds of profession were by no means incompatible . |
| 10 | Wolfram 's humanity was exceptional even in his own day ( see p. 422 ) ; and there was no doubt much that was fanciful and artificial in the cult of courtly love . |
| 11 | Even in his own day his wines were called , not after Hautvillers , but after the man himself , vins de Pérignon . |
| 12 | But his output of madrigals between 1554 and 1603 — more than a thousand secular ones alone — is so overwhelming in bulk and seemingly so equable in accomplishment that even anthologists have generally recoiled from it although Alfred Einstein has published de Monte 's greatest success in his own day , ‘ Verament ’ in amore' in his Fifth Book a cinque voci ( Venice , 1574 ) . |
| 13 | But the truth is , that in his own day , Darwin was something of , of a Lamarckian . |
| 14 | Indeed , at first sight he appears to deny that they existed in his own day . |
| 15 | He himself emphasized his concern to record the good and bad that was being done in his own day , especially in so far as it concerned the Church , and he noted among the principal actors , kings , catholics and heretics . |
| 16 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 17 | It did , however , have the ‘ incantations ’ referred to above , which were immensely old , very musical in their own way , and a powerful social force — cohesively , and as an instrument of struggle — as the intifada have found in modern Israel in our own day . ) |
| 18 | The decision to make this process possible by the foundation of colleges or universities and the financial maintenance of students has been taken , down through the ages , by the sources of munificence in each succeeding period , until in our own day the lion 's share is produced through public funds voted by central government and local authorities . |
| 19 | These are under renewed scrutiny , in our own day , by Vasareley . |
| 20 | It is my desire that many others , in our own day , will catch something of Baxter 's vision , zeal for God and love for the souls of men . |
| 21 | He never lifted whole sections of design from antique buildings as Wilkins did , and as some architects are doing again in our own day , or squeezed his buildings into medieval or Jacobean plan forms : it would never have occurred to him that he should . |
| 22 | But technologies of drainage , refined with each succeeding century and reaching a climax in our own day , removed the subtle checks and limitations of the old wetland systems . |
| 23 | Women such as Florence Nightingale , and Mother Theresa in our own day , are symbols of a very real struggle to light the way through darkness . |
| 24 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 25 | His is an example that we should , perhaps , consider carefully in our own day , when occasionally an inherited prejudice or imagined superiority makes us dismiss the religions of people who have followed other venerable and inspiring forms of faith that could revitalise our own tradition . |
| 26 | The spirituality of The Cloud of Unknowing never became as popular in the West as the Mystical Theology of Dionysius has remained in eastern Orthodox Christianity , but perhaps in our own day when many people in the Western world have reacted against inadequate human ideas of God , this book might prove to be a refreshing and useful corrective . |
| 27 | Julian reached a far smaller audience than any of these later reformers and she has never had a decisive effect on the history of Christianity as they did , but she has acquired a considerable following in our own day . |
| 28 | An identification is then implicitly or explicitly made with parallel forms of political struggle in our own day . |
| 29 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |
| 30 | Alongside that , regional and social variation in the language in our own day is only fully understandable when we come to see the language as also varying in the temporal , historical dimension . |