Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The unique features of the time and place structured the use of discretion . |
| 32 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 33 | This was a period of rapid development in the technology and tactics of warfare ; gone were the Frankish troops of the time of Charlemagne , who were expected to be riders , foot soldiers , swordsmen , spearsmen and archers all at once . |
| 34 | She was on friendly terms with most of the leading horticulturalists of the time , and was able to provide Charles Darwin [ q.v. ] with a number of rare plants . |
| 35 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 36 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 37 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 38 | The High Court ruled on June 30 , however , that a pardon conferred on the Black Moslems at the time in return for the release of hostages and signed by the President of the Senate and the then acting head of state Joseph Emmanuel Carter , absolved them of any crimes . |
| 39 | Use the current tables at the time the payment is made . |
| 40 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 41 | Boris Hessen 's account of the adoption of Newtonian physics in the seventeenth century as a response to the technological needs of the time can be read as a relativist account with respect to communities , whilst Feyerabend 's assertion that it is the ‘ internal connectedness of all the parts of the ( Copernican ) system together with his belief in the basic nature of circular motion that makes Copernicus pronounce the motion of the earth as real ’ is a remark in keeping with a relativism with respect to individuals . |
| 42 | The Americans were persuaded to allow the ‘ counterpart funds ’ to Marshall Aid to be used for these purposes , and their backing helped Monnet to protect the investment targets from the deflationary policies of the time . |
| 43 | Musical opinions among the educated circles of the time tended towards a polarization . |
| 44 | I compared the planetary patterns at the time of the abdication crisis in l936 with those that are around now . |
| 45 | This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) . |
| 46 | Tumour staging was dependant upon the histological features and the clinical findings at the time of resection . |
| 47 | Four additions were made to each of the tracheal preparations at the time points indicated by dots . |
| 48 | The original dispersed development strategy ended up with a shortfall , something like two thousand dwellings , compared to the sites which had been agreed between the various authorities at the time , it 's also worth noting that that was based on a dwelling target of nine thousand one hundred for Greater York , I think that 's correct , over the period since actual sites which have been agreed between the authorities since then have clearly increased , so as you 've seen in my appendix eight the residual requirement has now been reduced to a a level of nine hundred and forty seven . |
| 49 | As a sign of the future , Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour , and one of the senior Labour Party ministers , said his party had rather different views on the matter , but would accept the general proposals for the time being . |
| 50 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 51 | Dalmatinac , like many of the Dalmatian artists of the time , had worked in Italy . |
| 52 | The phase of this variation is arbitrary , depending on the small disturbances at the time the flow commenced . |
| 53 | The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt . |
| 54 | One of the biggest bullies at the time was the king , Herod . |
| 55 | Confronted with a bronze picture , we can locate its image on the relevant computer screen and , having read its precise history , proceed to learn about tableware in general , the social system of Pompeii , and even the precise recipes of the time . |
| 56 | Much would depend on the particular circumstances at the time either in the context of a planning application or a local plan proposal . |
| 57 | In fairness to the LTA , in the particular circumstances of the time , I do not believe that they had very much option . |
| 58 | In 1935 a grand dinner was held by Sir William Rothenstein in honour of her ‘ too-long-ignored ’ talent and many of the big names of the time attended — ‘ a great crowd ’ , including Professor Fred Brown , ‘ old saw-bones Tonks ’ and Wilson Steer , as Virginia Woolf who was there with her sister , Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant , described them 1 . |
| 59 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 60 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |