Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [prep] time [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | The women demanded their ‘ gifts ’ of time and interest to the club be reciprocated by the donation of time and money by the players for the collective life of the community . |
2 | The photocopier has made reliance on a publisher less necessary than it was , but the future of the material coming from parish musicians will nevertheless be determined by the passage of time and the growing musical literacy of the public . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
5 | The extent to which the PCF was committed to popular front cultural politics can be appreciated both by the amount of time and energy that it devoted to the anti-fascist congresses , peace movements and revolutionary cultural associations of the period , and by its willingness to engage in the policy of la main tendue ( " the outstretched hand " ) in its relations with sympathisers of any persuasion , ideological or religious , willing to collaborate in its struggle against capitalist warmongering , imperialism , fascism and oppression . |
6 | Consequently the two uses of the to infinitive arise from representing the extra-verbal support either as separated from the actualization of what the verb denotes by a lapse of time or as attaining the place in time where this actualization takes place . |
7 | Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night . |