Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 3 | Also out and about this week were THE PRIMITIVES and CHAPTERHOUSE who were spotted at THE POETS gig tapping their beer bottles along in time to the swell up-and-coming sounds emanating stageside . |
| 4 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 5 | Oh what joy , as the swing of the '60s gave way to the pong of the '70s , as flares creaked muddily in time to a trenchant progfolk-jazz-R&B soundtrack and the likes of Genesis , Rory Gallagher , Van Der Graaf Generator , Brewer 's Droop and Greenslade became the staple Reading fare . |
| 6 | John Dalton 's action seems to have been very near in time to the crisis in his own life when he was temporarily imprisoned for his support of the Earl of Lancaster . |
| 7 | He gave it to the driver of the taxi he found outside , who whisked him back up the hill again , back through time to a medieval alley smelling of woodsmoke and urine . |
| 8 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |
| 9 | Bypassed by modern roads , access is along narrow lanes which seem to take one back in time to a more tranquil age . |
| 10 | Although the word aromatherapy was coined in the 1920s by the French chemist René Gattefossé , first we shall aim the historical telescope much further back in time to The Beginning . |
| 11 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 12 | At The Canterbury Tales you can step back in time to the 14th Century . |
| 13 | Remembering the dangers of our two traps , may I propose that we take an imaginative journey back in time to the year 1700 ? |
| 14 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
| 15 | Professional verdict : It looks like they 've gone back in time to the Fifties — not very practical |
| 16 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 17 | If you could travel back in time to the Middle Ages , you would find yourself surprised by the almost total lack of hedges and fences . |
| 18 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 19 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 20 | Schoolchildren will take a trip back in time to the 1930s in an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle from April 28 to May 1 . |
| 21 | Still to come : Princes Risborough travels back in time to the summer of nineteen forty . |
| 22 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 23 | Did he mean that the constitution must exist prior in time to the government or that the principles of the constitution should be superior in character , and binding in authority , to the actions of government ? |
| 24 | In a third class of cases we may take the latest condition , the one closest in time to the effect , as the cause . |