Example sentences of "[subord] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 2 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 3 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 4 | The railway is solely operated by volunteers , except for a full time manager , and deputy manager and two seasonal shop assistants . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to play with pain-killing injections and I 'm not able to train except for a short time doing set-pieces on a Friday . ’ |
| 6 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 7 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 8 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 9 | Although for a considerable time before the resumed hearing it was known that this House was to consider whether to permit Hansard to be used as an aid to construction , there was no suggestion from the Crown or anyone else that such a course might breach Parliamentary privilege until the Attorney-General raised the point at the start of the rehearing . |
| 10 | Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy . |
| 11 | This year it has an improved range which again highlights the benefits of Torsion technology , although for the first time it 's combined with injected EVA , rather than firmer PU which turned some runners away . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 13 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 14 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 15 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 16 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 17 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 18 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 19 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 20 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 21 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 22 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 23 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 24 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 25 | As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own . |
| 26 | In 1965 the clash was more marked because for the first time the EEC was seriously attempting to inaugurate a common policy . |
| 27 | ‘ Neither does anyone else , but of course Graham 's furious now that he 's started winning , because for the first time for years he could have set up some good contracts — and not least collected some commission on the bonuses paid by Hi-Flight . ’ |
| 28 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 29 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 30 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |