Example sentences of "about [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left . |
| 2 | Direct light came onto the sill and jambs of the embrasure at about the time when the noises of wheels and voices from the street were at their loudest . |
| 3 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 4 | If rates do fall about the time of the next Budget these loans appear to offer reasonable value . |
| 5 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 6 | This was conducted by Sir Edmund Compton and as a result of his report the Treasury Solicitor 's office lost a considerable amount of its advisory work ( which it has since regained ) at about the time Ware became Treasury Solicitor in 1971 . |
| 7 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 8 | Would their children talk with similar nostalgia about the time their dads led ‘ the North Bank on a charge against the Chelsea ‘ Shed ’ ? ss Sport presents a problem for such youths . |
| 9 | The total amount of growth hormone that is secreted per day increases to a maximum at about the time of puberty and is partially responsible for the growth spurt that is seen at about this time . |
| 10 | The agency has plans to launch a second craft in April 1994 , at about the time that the first satellite reaches the end of its operational life . |
| 11 | They laugh about the time when Colin was making love with a girlfriend and Bella , in the room next door , heard her moan that her feet were cold . |
| 12 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 13 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 14 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 15 | A century later , at about the time that Otto I was crowned Holy Roman Emperor ( 962 ) , he sent a mission ( albeit unsuccessful ) to Princess Olga of Kiev . |
| 16 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
| 17 | ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said . |
| 18 | However , about the time of his son 's birth , Richard senior was converted through reading the Bible . |
| 19 | The team became more accepting and realistic about the time demanded by the investigation service . |
| 20 | He also noted that it was at about the time when Prince Albert , the Prince Consort , opened the Royal College of Chemistry , the precursor to Imperial College , that he also opened the new Grimsby dock . |
| 21 | They concern fine judgements about the time spent in the non-reproductive phase versus time spent in collaborative reproduction and they also concern subtle choices of companion at all times . |
| 22 | Using this marker , Howard Ochman and Allan Wilson of the University of California , Berkeley , concluded that the two species diverged about 130 million years ago , ‘ intriguingly ’ ( they wrote ) about the time mammals originated . |
| 23 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 24 | Minnelli had seen Jack while studying the film Psych-Out for some lighting effects at about the time he was in the pre-production stage . |
| 25 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 26 | I 'm not concerned about the time . |
| 27 | At about the time when Becquerel was working on the radiation from uranium , G. T. Beatson , a surgeon in Glasgow , observed that the inoperable breast cancers of three patients underwent regression after he had removed their ovaries . |
| 28 | But she could have arrived here about the time of the accident … ’ |
| 29 | He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché . |
| 30 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |