Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 3 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 4 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 5 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 6 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 7 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 8 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 9 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 10 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 11 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 12 | All of them have come out of the time over the nineteen ninety three have all been employed by the company . |
| 13 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 14 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 15 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 16 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 17 | The June poster campaign was described as a ‘ xuechao ’ , student movement , in one analysis carried out at the time , although there were no demonstrations . |
| 18 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 19 | These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension . |
| 20 | Planning requires the identification of tasks and matching the means with which they may be carried out in the time available and under the conditions prevailing . |
| 21 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 22 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 23 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 24 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 25 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 26 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 27 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 28 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 29 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 30 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |