Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] days of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has even looked benignly bored in the final days of preparation ; he has no need , other than to satisfy the boxing historians , to climb into the ring again . |
| 2 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 3 | But it was perhaps in the great days of immigration that the station acted as a centre of awareness for the existing population viewing their new fellow citizens , and for the immigrants discovering the no less real inequalities of their adopted country . |
| 4 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 5 | Ribald measures of organisational capacity in relation to breweries spring to mind ; let it be noted that Dorchester ran its municipal brewhouse efficiently and profitably in the great days of Puritanism , but not thereafter . |
| 6 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 7 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 8 | In the early days of independence , TANU and the Government appear to have been anxious to lower the political temperature , following the excitement of the previous three years . |
| 9 | Amy Johnson was a Hull girl who found fame as a pilot in the early days of aviation . |
| 10 | In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire . |
| 11 | Apart from Indian raw cotton in the early days of cotton manufacture , England took no industrial raw materials of significance from the East . |
| 12 | In the early days of gliding , trestles were not considered essential as an aid to rigging ; I remember the very first ASW17 to arrive in the UK being rigged without them . |
| 13 | But these systems cost tens of thousands of pounds — in the early days of TV broadcasting , they cost hundreds of thousands ! |
| 14 | There , in the early days of contact with whites , young men and minor chiefs excluded from positions of authority in the traditional establishment were suddenly and unaccountably seized by capricious water-spirits . |
| 15 | In the early days of tourism many people spent the winter months in Madeira in private quintas ( large houses set in their own grounds ) . |
| 16 | Passengers in the early days of air travel had to be courageous and long suffering — qualities still needed at some airports today . |
| 17 | When they were hand copied and illuminated they were very rare and valuable , and not much less so in the early days of printing . |
| 18 | In the early days of archaeology , the dividing line between archaeologists and treasure hunters was all but invisible . |
| 19 | In the early days of psychoanalysis Freud 's findings regarding the existence of infantile sexuality were hotly and indignantly denied . |
| 20 | IN the early days of accountancy , the profit side of a balance sheet was known as ‘ the good ’ , hence the expression ‘ all to the good ’ meaning completely beneficial . |
| 21 | According to the author , for instance , in the early days of telephone technology , the Post Office was sued by the patent holders and ‘ even sabotage was resorted to ’ . |
| 22 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 23 | In the early days of cable , manual signalling was employed , using what are known as cable code signalling ( Fig. 3 . ) . |
| 24 | The Kiplings owned both places — and Low Birk Hatt in the early days of course — so they were well off by local standards . |
| 25 | In the early days of life the infant is sometimes called a new-born . |
| 26 | This is important because , in the early days of life when replicators first arose , we can not suppose that there were enzymes around to help them to replicate . |
| 27 | In the early days of man 's evolution natural forces ensured that these individuals were weeded out of the human race and could not reproduce , but science has altered all that , made it possible to rear such frail specimens . |
| 28 | In the early days of discovery medieval cartographers used to mark the empty , unexplored spaces on their maps as Where Dragons Be " . |
| 29 | Like most of my fellow white South Africans in the early days of contention , I did n't realise at the time that people like Peter Hian and Hassan Howa were looking further than we were , and seeing further ahead than our own claustrophobic horizons . |
| 30 | We are thus ignoring two classes of externally programmed device , common in the early days of computing : ( a ) Computers whose programs were held on such external media as paper tape or punched cards . |