Example sentences of "[art] passage [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is there , and grew with the passage of time . |
| 2 | If anything , fashion is moving closer to the context of his style with the passage of time . |
| 3 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 4 | In summer the sun does not set and so there is no alternation of day or night to give cues as to the passage of time . |
| 5 | The electricity supply is also regulated so that ‘ surges ’ in the National Grid — which may accompany the beginning or end of certain television programmes and so affect domestic lighting and identify the passage of time — are smoothed over . |
| 6 | Mr Peter Goldsmith , QC , for Mr Foecke , submitted that it was now too late for Mr Foecke to have a fair trial due to the passage of time . |
| 7 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
| 8 | But in the history of warfare new weapon systems rarely achieve immediate dominance : only the passage of time and operational experience decides whether the older , well-tried systems should be superseded or not . |
| 9 | Most people wear watches , some keep diaries : we continually monitor the passage of time and keep records of the sequence of events . |
| 10 | Arrows provide a second linear means of expressing movement , and therefore the passage of time upon a canvas . |
| 11 | Only the passage of time is revealing a broad evolutionary stream that springs from Constructivism and is nourished by various forms of Expressionism , such as Dada and Surrealism . |
| 12 | With the passage of time attitudes changed and support grew , mainly from Baptists , non-Wesleyan Methodists and smaller Congregational chapels . |
| 13 | The Association did not achieve much in the way of concrete results but the reports stand up well to the passage of time . |
| 14 | Although there is some good material in the report on Harris Tweed it stand up less well than some of the others to the passage of time . |
| 15 | it was felt that the happenings of these momentous years of the early eighties would , with the passage of time , become clouded in the memory of those of us who witnessed them . |
| 16 | With the passage of time and the growth of a network of relationships between the young nations of the region and the great powers outside , the conflict became far more complex . |
| 17 | In Histoire , the narrator is engaged in the elaboration of descriptions which are suggested by a set of postcards : he attempts to evoke and organize these fragments of the past , aware that it is ultimately unknowable and that reconstructions are inevitably incomplete and distorted by the passage of time . |
| 18 | As so often happens , the passage of time showed an increasing number of disadvantages of the treatment , including a greater frequency of heart disease and strokes in men receiving oestrogens . |
| 19 | Every product undergoes change with the passage of time and sooner or later becomes unsatisfactory , by which is meant in this context that it no longer conforms to its specification . |
| 20 | When a product is in regular production , however , there may be , with the passage of time , unsuspected and undetected changes in raw materials , methods of product handling or some other change that can affect the stability of the product . |
| 21 | With the passage of time , demons are about the only form of unpleasantness not recorded in accounts of the wetlands . |
| 22 | With the passage of time , such perilous subsistence gave way to more profitable wildfowling . |
| 23 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 24 | The kitchen clock reminded him sharply of the passage of time , and urgency lent cunning to the rector 's stratagems . |
| 25 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 26 | Although Homer dealt with allegedly historical subjects , his was ‘ aristocratic ’ history , involving no chronology , no temporal continuity with later ages , and no real sense of the passage of time . |
| 27 | The passage of time had become more relevant . |
| 28 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 29 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 30 | In antiquity the only mechanical ( or , more strictly speaking , quasi-mechanical ) instruments for recording the passage of time were water-clocks . |