Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coinciding appointment of Dusty Hare as salaried coaching director and looming relegation this season have become part of the shifting sands of time . |
| 2 | Indeed the " United Front " was further restricted by an NAC decision on 16 February " to limit co-operation with the Communist Party to specific objects as agreed upon by the representatives of the two parties from time to time " . |
| 3 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 4 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 5 | At the same time , the formalism is broken up ( particularly in the last and longest sentence ) by elements which will ease transition to a lighter tone of comedy : for example , the bantering irony signalled by the parenthesis of " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ( directed against a general human frailty , partiality of parents for their offspring , rather than against the more repellent form that partiality takes in Mr Dombey ) ; also , the fanciful extensions of the well-worn personifications of Time and Care , again expressed through parenthetical elaboration of the syntax . |