Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Since we compiled the answer relating to company names and trade marks , our attention has been drawn to the case of Mothercare UK Ltd v Penguin ( 1987 ) which appears to have been reported only in the Times on 8 July 1987 . |
| 3 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Critics may argue that it has not moved enough with the times , is not as up-to-date in its special effects as its counterparts across the Atlantic , but this perhaps highlights its attraction . |
| 12 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 13 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 14 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 15 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 16 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 17 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 18 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 19 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 20 | Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film , carpets and circular knitted fabrics . |
| 21 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 22 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 23 | She had thought so at the time . |
| 24 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 25 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 26 | Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time . |
| 27 | It 's almost as if Hook Norton Brewery were locked away in a time warp ; even in the heart of the brewery , the steam engine which runs it is still there . |
| 28 | ’ You 'd be locked away in no time at all . |
| 29 | The initial estimate was based partly on the time required for radioactive heating to cause the subducted oceanic crust and sediment to become buoyant and rise . |
| 30 | Young Philip was employed there for a time before going abroad , taking over during his father 's trips into the country where some landowners Sought his practical advice , particularly with regard to establishing plantations of hitherto unknown trees from abroad . |