Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 2 | In breaking it up , he segregates those disturbing causes , whose wanderings happen to be inconvenient , for the time in a pound called Ceteris Paribus . |
| 3 | During the time in the playground the teachers and head need to be listening to parents and children , spreading irresistible enthusiasm and showing interest in peoples as individuals . |
| 4 | Did I ever tell you about the time in the Persian Empire when- ’ |
| 5 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Stanley Morison , responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s , was not an adroit penman — he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition . |
| 8 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 9 | In this section are described ways of getting back into practice and of improving flying skills by making better use of the time in the air . |
| 10 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 11 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 12 | If your students want to study spoken English , you will spend part of the time in the classroom working on examples of the spoken language . |
| 13 | At first he stayed up in his room most of the time in the evenings , reading and playing his harp . |
| 14 | However , they face substantial difficulties in their struggles against organized capital , domestically and transnationally ( see Rowan et al. , 1980 ) and they must be considered as marginal most of the time in the global system . |
| 15 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 16 | It 's a celebration of a time in the 30 's when to forget the depression , you put on your taps to go into your dance . |
| 17 | Coded messages , huge sums of money , nail-biting coincidences — like the time in a hotel lobby when , accompanied by one of his biggest targets , he bumped into someone he had previously arrested — and genuine humour run through it . |
| 18 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 19 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |
| 20 | He had been stationed for a time in a war hospital , once a lunatic asylum . |
| 21 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 22 | To be fair , these materials performed a useful function for a time in the propellers of Spitfires and similar aircraft . |
| 23 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 24 | There is no broadcast equivalent to ‘ popular press ’ , though the term ‘ pop radio , was current for a time in the 1970s . |
| 25 | Courses at the London School of Economics , which became social anthropology 's chief centre in Great Britain ( and for a time in the world ) , began with the appointment in 1910 of C. G. Seligman . |
| 26 | At a time when only the Northumbrians , and then only for a time in the reign of Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , minted coins of pure silver , southern England experienced a decline in the quality of its sceattas . |
| 27 | On leaving school Herbert joined his father as an engineering apprentice , and also worked for a time in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the City and Guilds Technical College in Finchley , London . |
| 28 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 29 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 30 | The costs of ruling an " empire " were high , but for a time in the 1760s the revenues of northern India were almost self-supporting , with no bullion being exported in 1767 – . |