Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here .
2 Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency .
3 Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change .
4 Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son .
5 And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places .
6 Maybe in the course of time she will show me all these marvels . "
7 Sooner or later The Course of Time it 'll
8 In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks .
9 I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution .
10 In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over .
11 In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle .
12 It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ .
13 In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service .
14 In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks .
15 In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies .
16 If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise .
17 If the injection can reduce the fluid in the larynx in time we 'll just have to wait . "
18 For the moment of time I thought about it , I remember thinking : ‘ Who is going to be hurt by this ? ’
19 What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem .
20 In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late .
21 But the gulf of time I was in was much greater .
22 For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased .
23 If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with .
24 The shortness of the period of time it is left on the road is immaterial ( Holliday v Henry [ 1974 ] RTR 101 ) .
25 Doubtless their minds are uncluttered by the thought that in the fullness of time they themselves will appear on the list .
26 We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will .
27 And the likelihood is that in the fullness of time they 'll be the preferred supplier , and they 'll be also supplying the gear bearing .
28 And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds .
29 Either way , he will be locked up and guarded , and in the fullness of time I will be conveyed to speak to him .
30 The rules allowed them this 2:1 majority but in the fullness of time it would become unacceptable to members .
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