Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were oblivious of the passage of time . |
| 2 | What makes an object fashionable it is ability to signify the present ; it is thus always doomed to become unfashionable with the movement of time . |
| 3 | The severity of jet-lag , however , is dependent upon the number of time zones crossed rather than the length of flight . |
| 4 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 5 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 6 | Of course , your travels will be dependent on the amount of time you 're prepared to invest behind the wheel . |
| 7 | the Boat Race is a great British sporting occasion … untouched and untroubled by the march of time … no ticket touts or trouble … just thousands and thousands of people lining the banks of the Thames … the watches too … the boat race is still something special … |
| 8 | The project starts from the basic hypothesis that modernisation of agricultural and industrial regions was extremely uneven during the period of time here considered , and that this uneven development may have had important consequences for the development of the internal market for both agricultural and industrial products , even to some degree determining the structure and efficiency of production . |
| 9 | He greeted her pleasantly , seemingly unaware of the length of time since they had last met , and her pride made her take her cue from him . |
| 10 | He sat cross-legged at the foot of the grave , unaware of the passing of time as he hewed out a cross with his bayonet . |
| 11 | If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’ |
| 12 | This little community is still in existence , largely untouched by the march of time . |
| 13 | ‘ Time Passeth ’ , yet , but poetic values are untouched by the passing of time and what existed for and moved the man Tennyson , still exists to move man today . |
| 14 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 15 | The head needs then to be very conscious of the use of time . |
| 16 | Teachers were clearly conscious of the pressure of time and the need to cover the ground intended . |
| 17 | There were traces of the same fine-boned look about him , but his features were already well masked by what was likely in the course of time to become a solid layer of self-indulgent fat . |
| 18 | Given the precedent of 1925 , it is extraordinary that its lessons have not been learnt : the inadvisability of one country pegging its currency to a more powerful one ; the inadvisability , indeed , of that country artificially pegging its currency at all in the face of pressures , speculative and real , which are likely in the fullness of time to force adjustment towards a rate determined by economic forces reflective not of political desire but of relative unit costs between countries . |
| 19 | The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time . |
| 20 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 21 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 22 | Few early peoples , apart from the Egyptians , have left to posterity so much workmanship quite undisturbed through the passage of time . |
| 23 | Oxfordshire teachers who have been involved are negative about the amount of time that the scheme takes . |
| 24 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 25 | But all was well in the nick of time . |
| 26 | Whereas do situates the infinitive in a stretch of time in the past or non-past as something really existing or taking place in that time-stretch , the modals in ( 4 ) — ( 6 ) on the other hand situate the infinitive 's event merely as something which has certain chances of existing in the stretch of time which they express . |
| 27 | This result was particularly striking when junctions were considered individually and it became clear that this relationship was at least partly independent of the amount of time spent at the junction , number of vehicles seen and the judgment of estimated risk made at the same time . |
| 28 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 29 | In both books we find him passionately concerned with the nature of time and vigorously rejecting cyclical theories of history . |
| 30 | In this section we are concerned with the integration over time of information which allows the discrimination of competing hypotheses at the same level . |