Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord !
2 There are those who think that the ordination of women is bound to come in the course of time and wonder why it is necessary to campaign for it .
3 The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time .
4 But that 's where the manager 's a victim , trapped in a sort of time warp , waiting to find out if those Moores millions will ever be available again .
5 Here you have an opportunity to sell as much advertising you want in the period of time .
6 ‘ You have come in the nick of time , ’ Alexandra told him .
7 Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time .
8 Actors and actresses revealing how ancient they were by their dress and arrangements of hair-style smiled down from the walls , their smiles captured forever — frozen in the curtain-call of time .
9 The results for some other questions on calendars have already been considered in the section on time .
10 Major changes occurred in the course of time in the availability both of different substances and of the techniques for shaping and displaying them .
11 He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman .
12 As mentioned previously , this so often happened with monotonous and maddening frequency during operations , but luckily radio contact was regained in the nick of time and the message was passed that Margate seemed the most likely landing spot .
13 I know you have done a C C Q on yourself and we 've looked at each page in detail but I think until you actually do it yourself and maybe write little prompts to let you know what 's on the next page so you can signpost it most effectively to move round the C C Q as opposed to you dri er as opposed to it driving you , you can drive it , but that should be done in the fullness of time but I do recommend you do it before you actually do your first full appointment cos it might pay you .
14 Throughout history , otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures , including 3/4 , 6/8 and 3/8 .
15 The rescue came in the nick of time as the sewer filled with flash flood water just minutes after the pony was brought out .
16 When demand and supply are in equilibrium , the amount of the commodity which is being produced in a unit of time may be called the equilibrium-amount , and the price at which it is being sold may be called the equilibrium-price .
17 The belief that ‘ god ‘ preceded life and was responsible for it , is deeply rooted in the history of time long past , and will be tenaciously held even in the face of ‘ That kindly light of reason ’ — which orthodox religions teach is a gift from ‘ God the Creator ’ , but the use of which is nevertheless often vigorously denied , especially if such use threatens to throw doubt on the basic creeds already long established .
18 The ramifications of these doubts are reflected in a poll by Time magazine and CNN , which shows 53 per cent of voters do not think Mr Clinton is honest and trustworthy enough to be president ; 67 per cent think he would say anything to be elected president ; and 62 per cent say he is not someone they would be proud to have as president .
19 There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly .
20 With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book .
21 I hope that that will evolve in the fullness of time , but it will do so only when the electrification programme is extended to all parts of the country .
22 The poet William Dunbar , born in East Lothian and educated at St Andrews , celebrated James 's marriage to Margaret Tudor of England — a liaison which led in the fullness of time to the Stewart succession to the throne of England — with a poem , The Thistle and the Rose , and summed up his entourage thus :
23 With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew .
24 More importantly , the ending escapes the cliché in countless films of a marriage being halted in the nick of time although it most resembles the climax of a 1928 Harold Lloyd comedy , Speedy .
25 Will my right hon. Friend go as far as to say that we definitely intend in the fulness of time to bring in legislation and , I hope , include in the legislation the provision that there should be at least one employee representative among pension fund trustees ?
26 Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day .
27 In affirmative verb phrases therefore the event is explicitly situated in the stretch of time evoked by do , whence the expressive effect of emphasizing something really taking place .
28 Wilson used to train in the mountains and emerge in the nick of time to perform his prodigious exploits .
29 Policies emerge in the organization over time .
30 Commonly he will be looking for evidence of thrush or trichomonal infection , but may also take samples for the other organisms that are found in the vagina from time to time .
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