Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 2 | It is only during the time of waiting , wrote Harsnet , during the time without hope , that these things assume significance , only during the time without hope that one is conscious of them , that one remembers them with despair , that one anticipates them with dread . |
| 3 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 4 | With dark hair and moustache , he was always well dressed , regardless of the time of day . |
| 5 | Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords . |
| 6 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 7 | Long before the time of Aristoxenus , some of the most acute Greek thinkers had found that the concept of time was difficult to reconcile with their idea of rationality . |
| 8 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 9 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |
| 10 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 11 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 12 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 13 | It is not possible to foresee , especially at the time of acquisition , exactly what information a specimen might hold . |
| 14 | Exercise raises the metabolic rate , not only at the time of activity , but also for a little while afterwards . |
| 15 | However , although early Greek literacy must therefore also be labelled ‘ restricted ’ , the foundation was nevertheless being laid for future developments of the ‘ full ’ potential of literacy : ‘ It was only by the time of Plato that the language had changed sufficiently to express new ideas ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 16 | This is a theme which appeals to children from five upward , especially around the time of Hallowe'en ( Oct 31 ) . |
| 17 | This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times . |
| 18 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 19 | It comes just in the time for Christmas and fund raisers are sure it 'll be a popular stocking-filler . |
| 20 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 21 | A man called Murphy , who buys and sells horses , was not far away at the time of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 22 | They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing . |
| 23 | He himself had founded this in honour of St Thomas of Canterbury , at whose tomb Henry II was doing penance just at the time of William 's capture at Alnwick . |
| 24 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 25 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 26 | Already by the time of Mortmain , however , the problem was less about donations of land to the religious houses than the purchase of land by them , but this too was curtailed more by monastic poverty than by statute ; in fact the king not long after this had to ban houses of which he was patron from selling their endowments . |
| 27 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 28 | PRS and Patrick Eggle have revived this fashion , which was predominant once upon a time on Gibson 's ES345/355 models . |
| 29 | De Niro , curiously takes a back seat , indeed , content to re-invent Noodles ( Once Upon A Time In America ) with a darker , more sadistic bent . |
| 30 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |