Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 2 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 3 | The game about to be got under way here , it 's the second time of course that we 've had the taste of European football in just er inside a few weeks here at Lane , a very poor night for weather , you who 've not ventured out well , I think we understand that er because er as we say , it 's not a night when you would turn the dog out . |
| 4 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 5 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 6 | For the fourth time of asking , what will be the impact on 15 Para of the change from battalion to company status , where will the battallion headquarters be , why is it being taken out of Scotland , and , at a time when the Secretary of State says that flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain 's Army , why are we making major reductions in a force which is the most flexible and mobile in the British Army ? |
| 7 | At the reception after the show , Todd , learning for the first time of the ancient history of his family , spat in Hugh Farnham 's face . |
| 8 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 9 | When you meet somebody , especially if it is the first time of meeting , your senses are working flat out to process all the data . |
| 10 | He went on to play in all 42 League games that season and helped the club to finish in a respectable third position but , statistically at least , his best season with the Palace was 1920–21 when , along with all the other Southern League clubs , we were admitted to the Football League — and promptly won the newly-formed 3rd Division at the first time of asking ! |
| 11 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 12 | Rubberneck , for the first time of his life ( he no longer wished to be a part , not when people fought as animals ) , felt close to God . |
| 13 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 14 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 15 | THE policeman whose hand was sewn back on after it was horrifically severed by a Samurai sword has spoken publicly for the first time of his ordeal . |
| 16 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 17 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is downloaded only once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 18 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is only downloaded once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 19 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 20 | One of these was a gradual trend towards laying off workers in their early sixties in the belief that age made them less efficient , and the introduction for the first time of fixed retirement ages . |
| 21 | ( The computer does n't always reveal the whereabouts of traps , secret doors and invisible creatures the first time of asking , unless Samson has high intelligence or is experienced . ) |
| 22 | And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects . |
| 23 | In addition to the emphasis on vocal participation by congregations , there was the recognition for the first time of indigenous musical traditions . |
| 24 | Much attention will focus on the inclusion in the census for the first time of the self reported limiting , longstanding sickness item . |
| 25 | Just that first Botticelli moment of the first time of her taking her clothes off . |
| 26 | Khayyam was not one of the greatest Persian poets , nor the best loved in Persia , but Fitzgerald translation made large Western audience aware for the first time of Persian poetry . |
| 27 | Explaining one of the sections of their manifesto in the preface to the exhibition at Bernheim 's , the Futurists , now aware of Cubist painting , talked for the first time of ‘ battles of planes ’ ; and Boccioni summarizes most concisely the debt of Futurism to Cubism when in Pittura Scultura Futuriste , published in 1914 , he wrote under the heading ‘ Compenetrazione dei Piani ’ : ‘ It is the pictorial method of rendering movement in a painting , making the surrounding objects fuse with the structure of the object placed in their midst ’ . |
| 28 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 29 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 30 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |