Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the dominant , there may be a more flexible perimeter , depending upon the political tactics of the time . |
| 2 | A tremendous favourite with the fans of the time , Roy was both handsome and spectacular , and a most worthy member of the gallery of fine goalkeepers who have served Crystal Palace down the years . |
| 3 | Butler 's role at Crystal Palace was thus largely a supportive one and he seldom gained much publicity , but fans of the time recognised him as a useful contributor to the Palace cause . |
| 4 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 5 | Other interesting trades of the time were shoemakers , a weaver , a straw-hat maker , a druggist and a castrator , plus the more usual ones . |
| 6 | Some of these straight orthocone nautiloids achieve considerable dimensions , several metres long , and they must have been formidable predators on the other marine animals of the time . |
| 7 | From the evidence of the biographical sources , this would appear to be a nearly complete list of the mevleviyet kadiliks of the time ; the only surprising omission is the kadilik of Mecca , which seems to have been a mevleviyet for some years before 963 . |
| 8 | Interestingly , it was a man 's leg that was shown in the police demonstration photograph to avoid offending the decorum and susceptibilities of the time . |
| 9 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 10 | She was on friendly terms with most of the leading horticulturalists of the time , and was able to provide Charles Darwin [ q.v. ] with a number of rare plants . |
| 11 | These show a remarkable grasp of the prevalent styles of the time that were adopted by both Italian and English composers , and especially by J C Bach . |
| 12 | A representative rather than a complete library was aimed at and , after selection , the Princess wrote personally to 171 favoured authors of the time . |
| 13 | I have little doubt that a major force in the moulding of the law in this form is to be found in the practitioners ' text books of the time , notably Bullen & Leake 's Precedents of Pleadings , 3rd ed. ( 1868 ) , p. 50 , and Leake 's Law of Contracts , 5th ed. ( 1906 ) , p. 61 ; we can see this reflected in the form of the arguments advanced in the cases , and the manner in which the court reacted to submissions by counsel challenging the accepted view . |
| 14 | A native of southern Europe and western Asia , costmary is now naturalized in Europe and North America , being introduced when it was detailed as an ingredient in cookery books of the time . |
| 15 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 16 | For example , aspects of the time and place of the discourse in ( 5 ) are important because they have a bearing on what the speaker says in the fragment ( forty years after the described event took place , but still in Stornoway ) . |
| 17 | Gold-topped walking canes or cigarette cases were typical presents of the time ; the girls received numerous bouquets , and ( from the producer , Captain Wombwell ) a gold brooch each . |
| 18 | And this was to be the case with a lot of actuality pictures of the time . |
| 19 | They are idealizations which serve to ‘ cover and to evade the actual and bitter contradictions of the time ’ ( Williams , 1973 , p. 45 ) . |
| 20 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 21 | Then came ‘ Gimmie Indie Rock ’ , a funny and sarcastic swipe at all the unit-shifting alternative rock dinosaurs of the time , and some people noticed . |
| 22 | They accompany the eurypterid arthropods ( which may have preyed upon them ) , and we can visualize the rivers and lakes of the time thronging with the first invaders from the sea . |
| 23 | Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson . |
| 24 | For example , within eighteen months of the time of writing , managers must implement the complex provisions of two White Papers , as well as their local plans for service provision and development within tight financial disciplines . |
| 25 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 26 | Greenblatt 's Shakespearean Negotiations , for instance , is interested in the way the Elizabethan theatre produced texts which were in no respect outside other institutions of the time . |
| 27 | Harbour commissions , like so many other improving economic institutions of the time enabled by act of parliament , undertook a steady upgrading and extension . |
| 28 | Despite what the hon. Gentleman has said , from which I do not dissent , the fact is that only 15 minutes of the time that the Prime Minister chaired the summit of the Group of Seven countries was spent on the environment . |
| 29 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 30 | John Foster Fraser and two friends cycled round the world on more conventional cycles in 1896 , but 19,237 miles must have felt very tough on the slow , heavy bikes of the time . |