Example sentences of "[art] time were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographs of the squad taken in the early 1970s still evoke surprise in police circles , simply because they display such strong imagery of an unacceptable style , and at the time were made much of in the media , who saw the newsworthy potential of policemen in a disorderly form . |
| 2 | The great metalworking centres of the time were in Mesopotamia , Iran and Egypt . |
| 3 | The analogies at the time were very crude and based upon feudal understandings of barons and servants and themes of honour , respect and dignity . |
| 4 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 5 | David Damiani 's memories of the time were those of a schoolboy in a safe land . |
| 6 | Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle . |
| 7 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | In February 1991 , he was offered the manager 's job at Birmingham City , an English Third Division club , who at the time were so down at heel they resembled an inveterate gambler staggering from one bad bet to another . |
| 9 | Scientists of the time were bound by Aristotle 's philosophy , which taught that the Moon was an immaculate heavenly body travelling in its own crystalline sphere around the Earth . |
| 10 | Royalties and celebrities of the time were the subjects . |
| 11 | In London , the Old Kent Road and Anerley Schools for the Deaf which were both occupied by civil defence and military authorities at the time were also substantially damaged and needed major repairs after the war before they could be reoccupied . |
| 12 | He was assiduous in helping Ealing Colts , amongst whom at the time were Simon Hughes and Keith Tomlins . |
| 13 | The beliefs of the time were not to be easily undermined : as traffic grew the conventional wisdom was that roads should be widened to accommodate it . |
| 14 | Other interesting trades of the time were shoemakers , a weaver , a straw-hat maker , a druggist and a castrator , plus the more usual ones . |
| 15 | Bass players of the time were most unhappy about the situation , though ; their instrument , the double bass , was exceedingly bulky , very fragile and did not take at all well to the rigours of touring , especially if strapped to the roof of a car , as many were . |
| 16 | All the pop songs in vogue at the time were sung communally — songs such as those from the award-winning film , Hong Gaoliang ( Red Sorghum ) and the virtual national anthem of youth during 1988 , ‘ Yi Wu Suo You ’ , ‘ The One Who Has Nothing ’ . |
| 17 | Those who were with him on the tour of Dark Summer at the time were equally astounded . |
| 18 | References to Ceylon cricket in journals of the time were like the entry for ‘ snakes ’ in the legendary Irish encyclopedia : ‘ There are no snakes in Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | The major party contests of the time were , of course , between the Tories and Whigs or , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , their successors the Conservatives and Liberals . |
| 20 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 21 | As we have repeatedly noted , however , politics and religion for Israel at the time were inextricably associated — were , in fact , essentially different manifestations of the same thing . |
| 22 | Little noticed at the time were large groups who missed out in the general prosperity : the blacks , poor farmers , lower-paid workers , and the old people living on small fixed pensions , who suffered particularly from one of the continuing problems of the economy inflation . |
| 23 | The European and American general public of the time were largely unaware of the existence of oriental rugs . |
| 24 | On the one hand there was no group of Yugoslavs to whom the phrasing of Robertson 's order applied more completely than the Croat Ustachi , Domobranci and regular troops under German Army Group E , who at the time were approaching the Austrian border , armed and in very large numbers . |
| 25 | Many of the explorers of the time were afflicted and often killed by malaria , or the " ague " as it was called . |
| 26 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 27 | To allow Botham Wanderers , who at the time were without a win , to take a four-goal lead was asking for trouble . |
| 28 | ‘ To your beauty , ’ he said , though my looks at the time were nothing to write home about , ‘ coupled with the birthday of the King of Bulgaria . ’ |
| 29 | By a curious twist of fate , the prevailing socio-political conditions of the time were to give rise to a situation in which the French communist writer in the 1930s enjoyed relative freedom to give full artistic expression to the dominant themes of anti-fascism and anti-capitalism within a specifically French cultural context . |
| 30 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |