Example sentences of "in the [noun] of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many influential Englishmen had seen the magnificent accommodation that Napoleon III was providing for his bureaucracy in the New Louvre and the new architecture that was arising in the Paris of the time . |
| 2 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 3 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 4 | Thurlow concentrates on vividly detailed description of his races , mostly in the style of the time . |
| 5 | These five columnar figures , facing us , standing still , might each be an independent statue in the style of the time , like the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo or the Hestia ( figs. 76–7 ) . |
| 6 | She does not define ‘ &c. ’ , or mention crowding , though this , in the reports of the time , was the main objection to such courts ; her emphasis falls instead on neighbourliness , cleanliness , and laundry . |
| 7 | ‘ No need to freak out , ’ said Tina in the parlance of the time . |
| 8 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 9 | Around two-thirds of its eigh-teenth-century membership were " manufacturers " in the sense of the time , that is working craftsmen like weavers and tailors . |
| 10 | The latter , a somewhat shadowy figure in the biographical sources , is chiefly noted in the history of the time for having authorized with a fetva the execution of Seyh Bedreddin Simavi in 823/1420 ( ? ) . |
| 11 | These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom . |
| 12 | Thomas believes that he sipped his favourite drink at the time , Campari and soda , because he believed — in the terminology of the time — that was the ‘ with-it ’ thing to do . |
| 13 | The appointment letter should also state that ( i ) in the event of the time and place not being convenient , the debtor is to name some other time and place reasonably convenient for the purpose , ( ii ) ( statutory demands ) if the debtor fails to keep the appointment the creditor proposes to serve the debtor by advertisement or post or insertion through a letter box or as the case may be , and that , in the event of a bankruptcy petition being presented , the court will be asked to treat such service as service of the demand on the debtor , ( iii ) ( petitions ) if the debtor fails to keep the appointment , application will be made to the court for an order for substituted service either by advertisement or in such other manner as the court may think fit ; ( c ) in attending any appointment made by letter , inquiry should be made whether the debtor has received all letters left for him . |
| 14 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 15 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 16 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |
| 17 | The treatment of the short-sleeved belted chit on of light material is assimilated in the taste of the time to that of the heavy chit on ( figs. 73–4 , 76 ) , though the structure of the garment is quite different . |
| 18 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 19 | She must also become more efficient herself in the use of the time available . |
| 20 | Although Henslow 's teaching was not part of the undergraduate curriculum , interested students were taken on field trips and given a good grounding in the science of the time . |
| 21 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 22 | We must further admit institutional constraints in the form of the time available to study Renaissance writing on a degree course . |
| 23 | In his essay ‘ The Presence of Postmodernism in British Fiction ’ , Richard Todd adds that , although this literary-journalistic establishment emphasized certain quite genuine characteristics in the writing of the time , it conveniently ignored others . |
| 24 | It is known that he was proficient in the sciences of the time , as well as being a considerable linguist . |
| 25 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 26 | In the climate of the time anyone who appeared strange was suspect of heresy , especially those who voluntarily embraced poverty and wandered about . |
| 27 | And in the context of the time , there was a sort of heroism in this . |
| 28 | All this for an eighteen-year-old who , just over a year before , had been feared — in the context of the time — unmanageable and a little while before that had been sunk down without trace behind the haberdashery counter in Port Talbot 's Co-operative shop . |
| 29 | I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him |
| 30 | It was in 1761 , that he first wrote an account of one of the Salons , which was circulated with his other correspondence in the fashion of the time by his friend Grimm . |