Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done .
2 It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy .
3 Gary arranged for the well-known warbird pilot John Crocker to ferry the aircraft across the Atlantic for me , John being one of the few pilots at that time who could be insured to undertake such a flight . ’
4 For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others .
5 For that matter , Brancusi saw things the same way at this time .
6 In some cases within the present study the very close correspondence in the titles of some pairs of theses originating in the same university at different times ( e.g. see numbers 156 and 347 ) , suggests that such repetition may have occurred .
7 That is , they make crystal clear something which is implied in The German Ideology , that the history of mankind is governed by the same processes in all times , and that the main one of these processes is class conflict .
8 The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers .
9 From those thousands who have trodden the same paths in earlier times , the energy is inexhaustible .
10 It should be carefully controlled so that it has the same character at all times , and is in perfect accord with the composer 's aesthetic objectives .
11 The truth of the matter , of course , is that both exist , sometimes in the same person at different times .
12 Some committee clerks come to have an important role , especially when they work with the same committee and the same chairman for some time .
13 According to the Economist , the record also showed that Robert Gray , a senior campaign aide , was staying in the same hotel at that time .
14 Alternatively , these parameters may change over time , and solutions of essentially the same problem at different time periods may be required .
15 Different boxes of plants , and the same boxes at different times , were measured simultaneously by the video system and the optical RAM camera .
16 Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly .
17 It will use data from the Scottish Young People 's Surveys of 1985 , 1987 and 1989 to make comparisons between TVEI and non-TVEI pupils in TVEI schools , between TVEI schools and all other schools in Scotland , and between the same schools at different times before and after the introduction of TVEI .
18 Under normal circumstances these different rhythms give the same information about external time ; that is , they reinforce one another .
19 Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ?
20 The correspondence problem is to identify specific portions of the changing image as representing the same object at different times .
21 Let us now make the question more precise , and ask whether the experience has the same effect at any time , or whether there are particular ‘ sensitive periods ’ at which it will be more influential than at others .
22 If your cash has been in the same account for some time , make sure it has n't been closed to new customers .
23 Long years of poverty had filled those words with a special resonance ; to use them now brought out again the risk-all abandon of those times , before responsibility had taught her caution .
24 The apothecary 's rose is hardy and will do well in deep , well-drained but moist soil , in sun or a little shade at some time during the day .
25 And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall .
26 ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay .
27 In strictly layman 's terms , the amount of additional engine-weight and fuel that any supersonic aircraft could get off the ground would give a few minutes of sub-orbital time , if that .
28 ‘ I compose a few things during slack times on journeys , ’ Googol admitted .
29 No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time .
30 He increased his speed until he was running flat out , buying a few seconds of precious time to allow him to find a good defence position .
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