Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] [noun sg] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But all was well in the nick of time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Will lie unnoticed in the vault of time . |