Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] brief " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , two professors — Moorcroft and Coleman — were appointed , but only for a brief period . |
| 2 | Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister — she did that very well , Karen , where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly , barely touching — we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river . |
| 3 | It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude . |
| 4 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 5 | We could do the same , but every piece of music must have its own shape , and many composers introduce new material at this point , even if only for a brief few bars . |
| 6 | Fifty years later they captured Delphi , if only for a brief period . |
| 7 | Only for a brief moment while Merrill was changing her shoes did she know a fleeting reservation . |
| 8 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 9 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 10 | The angels promenaded in neat and pleasing lines , three witches cavorted wildly for a brief moment , and some of the singers were given a few simple but effective steps . |
| 11 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 12 | ( Figure 5.10 ) Front and rear wheels are expected to occupy the table simultaneously for a brief period . |
| 13 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 14 | Provincial accents were then acceptable , even for a brief moment preferred ; writers were making memorable works out of a background much nearer that of Burton . |
| 15 | For two hours they made love , never leaving each other , even for the brief periods when they lay still , nibbling ears and lips gently ; always delaying the splendour until the last possible moment , and always achieving it together , gasping and roaring , moaning and crying , seven times . |
| 16 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 17 | If diffugere signals that winter 's troops are on the run — the snows have skeddadled — then the Grace may dare , at least for a brief time of truce , to resume her peaceful pastimes . |
| 18 | She could not keep from the house on the bay but went late for a brief evening swim and , elated with resolution , left soon after dinner . |
| 19 | Straightening up again for a brief rest , he worked out a method of getting through the opening . |
| 20 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |