Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] time [prep] " 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 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 3 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 4 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 5 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 6 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 7 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 8 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 9 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 10 | ’ You 'd be locked away in no time at all . |
| 11 | Young Philip was employed there for a time before going abroad , taking over during his father 's trips into the country where some landowners Sought his practical advice , particularly with regard to establishing plantations of hitherto unknown trees from abroad . |
| 12 | But she could have arrived here about the time of the accident … ’ |
| 13 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 14 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 15 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 16 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
| 17 | The genre of apocalyptic historical prophecy reached its apotheosis in the writings of Oswald Spengler , whose The Decline of the West had been published coincidentally at the time of Germany 's military defeat . |
| 18 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 19 | Whether this lesion should be biopsied percutaneously at the time of initial imaging remains controversial . |