Example sentences of "[prep] [art] days [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVEN THOSE students of Italian Catholic politics enchanted by Byzantine matters are nostalgic this autumn for the days when schism was a simple affair . |
| 2 | Hunter Howerton , an American secret service agent , has been reminiscing about the days when counterfeiting was a specialist art form . |
| 3 | She thought of the days when art was a rich man 's pastime and voluptuous whores took the back stairs to Burne-Jones ' studio to be recreated in the image of Cleopatra for tuppence ha'penny an hour . |
| 4 | Local people , however , often speak of Dent Town as a reminder of the days when Dent had the greater status . |
| 5 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 6 | Although the bird was native to America , its name may have evolved from the days when turkey was first distributed in England by Turkish merchants . |
| 7 | A lot of the misconceptions stem from the days when catgut and braided nylon was the stuff you tied your hook to ; when nylon monofilament was something new and therefore not to be trusted . |
| 8 | Heavily drawn from the days when rock writers wore leather trousers and believed that rock would save the world . |
| 9 | Miners were represented by elderly and fairly conservative MPs who had worked their way up the union hierarchy in the days when mining areas were controlled by the Liberal Party . |
| 10 | Many of the older packages were written in the days when memory was a pricey commodity and only allow small models to be created . |
| 11 | Much of the old three-letter ‘ Q ’ code , devised in the days when wireless telegraphy was the standard form of air-ground communication , has fallen into disuse , apart from the familiar QFE , QNH , QDM and QDR . |
| 12 | In the days when income tax was raging at 83 per cent , he made all the preparations , " bar the rubber stamp " , to emigrate to America . |
| 13 | In the days when hummingbird feathers were fashionable costume accessories , the plumage hunters of Trinidad used to imitate the hooting of owls to draw the unfortunate hummingbirds towards them and to their deaths . |
| 14 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 15 | Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union . |
| 16 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 17 | Battery cages , like sow stalls , came from economic pressures in the days when cheapness was all . |
| 18 | In the days when unemployment in parts of East Cleveland was up to 90 per cent , Tippett was invited to direct musical activities at special work camps set up at Boosbeck , largely to cultivate rough land . |
| 19 | In the days when contraception was still a rarity , every husband knew , if he chose to think of it , that by sleeping with his wife he might imperil her life . |
| 20 | In the days following announcement of the inquiry , accusations were made against ministers , including in particular John Major , of attempting to cover up modifications made as late as July 1990 to the original 1985 policy towards exports to Iraq [ for which see p. 34515 ] , and of misleading the House of Commons in this respect . |
| 21 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 22 | The cover was made of leather and went back to the days when mankind used animals for food and clothing . |
| 23 | So goodbye to the days when washing your hair meant using just shampoo and conditioner , and relying on your own dexterity to make your hairstyles work . |
| 24 | The book concentrates on the good old days of airliners , flying Dakotas over the Himalayas , rope starting the Dak when all else had failed , Avro Yorks on the Rangoon-Singapore route , an undercarriage collapse on an Ambassador at Southend , transporting horses in a Bristol Freighter ( known to all as the Frightener ) , and tales like these fill the pages taking the reader back to the days when flying was still an adventure . |