Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] days " in BNC.

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1 The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes .
2 The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ .
3 But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion .
4 Indeed , my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) , in a speech right out of the defeatist book which is kept at the Foreign Office , seemed to declare that a nation with its own currency could not survive in the days of the ecu .
5 There were times when he spoke as though he was living in the days of his ancestor , Richard ; regarding himself as a feudal overlord with the power of life and death over his vassals .
6 Many of the older packages were written in the days when memory was a pricey commodity and only allow small models to be created .
7 Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by .
8 The villa had been built in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent by a Baderini banker .
9 Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign .
10 Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies .
11 ‘ All things I have seen in the days of my vanity : there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness , and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness . ’
12 His powerful shooting , sometimes from long range , was spectacular and effective and we do well to remember that Albert played in the days when the leather ball grew heavier and heavier , soaking up any moisture there may have been in or on the pitch and possibly finishing up weighing several pounds .
13 He played in the days when the maximum wage was in force for professional soccer players and , unlike his modern counterparts , never grew rich on the game .
14 Cane syrup is a light treacle , first made in the days of the plantations when sugar was refined by boiling it in huge , black , iron vats .
15 They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts .
16 But there is more to be said about Lawrence ; much more than was usually said in the days when he was celebrated as a prophet of straight liberation , and more than is oft en said when he is castigated from the vantage point of contemporary sexual politics .
17 This happened in the days before Juvenile Courts and it must have been a terrifying experience to be taken into the Court as a seven-year-old to be tried .
18 What happened in the days before freezers I mean well like going back to this you know when folk did n't have power .
19 The Celtic fields ; Iron Age and Roman farms , all still detectable from the air ; the Dark Age village along the river bank with its ghostly , ghastly cemetery on the hill where a woman was buried alive and her skeletal fingers dug into the rough chalk sides of her grave ; nearby Winchester , the old Saxon capital ; the warpath at the top of my lane ; the mill I live in , founded in the days of Alfred 's great grandson , and reinforcements for the Conqueror 's victorious army trotting past the site of our bus shelter .
20 It made her look like a boy , or how boys used to look in the days when men had some self-respect and went to the barber 's .
21 Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat
22 The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication .
23 Beaucens , which is almost exactly facing Saint-Savin on this eastern slope , though at a lesser altitude , has the ideally romantic ruins of an old towered castle plus keep , where the local chieftains , the viscounts of Lavedan , lived in the days of their prosperity .
24 Even that very first night , at that party at the Estwicks ’ place , you were wishing we lived in the days when a man could keep his mistress hidden away . ’
25 It 's a quality he 'll need to cultivate in the days ahead . ’
26 This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand .
27 As to the application of legal procedures deriving from Napoleonic law , it is perhaps worth considering that arrangements formulated in the days of the horse and cart may not be appropriate to a supersonic age .
28 The climb-down by the pro-mining countries came in the wake of dramatic reversals of position by Germany and Japan , which announced in the days leading up to the agreement that they would support the prohibition of mining .
29 The effect has been to accentuate divisions between the majority Pushtuns ( known in the days of the Raj as Pathans ) and the ethnic minorities of the north such as the Tajiks , who are kin to the people of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan across the Amu Darya river .
30 Emily tried to remember if she had ever known in the days of seeing him that he was such a strong swimmer , but nothing much came back .
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