Example sentences of "but [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 2 | The reason destroying it now would be no solution , he wrote , is that what sickens me is not the object itself but the time and thought I have put into it . |
| 3 | But the bearish view was not universally held and Nicholas Knight , the UK equities strategist at Nomura , said : ‘ The market may go lower but the time to buy is now . |
| 4 | Here , unfortunately , no restaurant area is yet available to allow customers to eat what they buy where they buy it , but the time spent waiting for a takeaway sandwich will be an invaluable education in Italian food . |
| 5 | But the time to ‘ recognise ’ it image by image had gone ; just as the moments of each day fade away , so I 'd forgotten it . |
| 6 | But the time for Cold War policies is over . |
| 7 | Usually the patient is taken into one of these units for a specified period such as a fortnight , but the time allocated might be indefinite in an emergency , for instance if the carer is ill . |
| 8 | It felt that the date for the block plan could be retained , but the time for the two office designs should be extended to spring 1858 . |
| 9 | As with acupuncture , this is a difficult field for research , but the time is ripe for active scientific investigations . |
| 10 | Rab felt to lick it off but the time , the place , was wrong ; a dump like this , it was hard to be anything , anyway romantic . |
| 11 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a time when I planned to live for ever , but the time has come to change those plans . ’ |
| 13 | But the time is now |
| 14 | But the time was never right , somehow . ’ |
| 15 | But the time should still be only a few minutes and the parent should go to collect the child and indicate when it is appropriate to join the family again . |
| 16 | This individual variation is quite usual , but the time taken may be a reflection on your abilities and dedication as well . |
| 17 | To the many BMJ readers who never submit a paper this may seem to be limited accountability , but the time that editors take to make decisions on publication is critical to authors . |
| 18 | It may be uncomfortable for the established order , but the time may be coming for it to move over . |
| 19 | The attraction of such a place was enhanced by the prize money paid in time of war to officers of the Indian Marine as to those of the Royal Navy , but the time promotion was unique to the Indian service , virtually guaranteeing advancement in rank . |
| 20 | It seems that the idea is to get rid of the 14 Minor County sides as quickly as possible , but the time has come to make cricket 's oldest limited-overs competition into a proper knockout contest , instead of a half-baked one as at present . |
| 21 | The redating of many major groups in publication prior to 1960 , would be a considerable undertaking , but the time may have to come when this should be considered seriously , though the rather tentative suggestions made in the CBA Student 's Guide ( Webster , 1970 ) do not go very far in meeting this need , so badly felt by those now beginning in this study . |
| 22 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 23 | But the time was long past for the final roll-call of his battalion of the People 's Militia , recruited to defend Berlin 's Wilhelmplatz district against the advance of the Red Army . |
| 24 | But the time spent at Battersea developed his skill and enthusiasm for combative sport . |
| 25 | The chance of peace must be clung to , but the time gained must be used well . |
| 26 | These are useless for feeding — but the time for feeding has long since passed . |
| 27 | But the time and inspiration for such apparent frivolities were rapidly passing and he was soon explaining to Bonamy Dobrée that the Bolovian period had ended . |
| 28 | The numbers getting over the last two hurdles can probably be found by a later survey , but the time involved is such that this will surely be a separate activity . |
| 29 | She had refused flatly to consider him as her groom , but the time of reckoning was at hand . |
| 30 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |