Example sentences of "of [art] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I think of the hours of weeding it saves , it appears nothing but beautiful to me . |
| 2 | In the Conservative leadership contest , Douglas Hurd , the foreign secretary , made reform of the hours kept by the Commons one of his themes . |
| 3 | He could not bring back any coherent dream from out of the hours which followed . |
| 4 | Sitting on the studio bed to the right of her desk and chair , she recalled old Yury lying there , for most of the hours of the day and night , and felt relieved , for his sake , that he was gone . |
| 5 | With the degree of mechanisation now found many of the hours claimed would be seasonal . |
| 6 | According to Asser 's Life of King Alfred , that intellectual monarch had candles of equal length lit successively to mark the passing of the hours ; but , as Bloch remarks , ‘ such concern for uniformity in the division of the day was exceptional in that age . ’ |
| 7 | They deliberated , looked at the sun and then questioned the clerics , since the practice of the liturgy and the regular tolling of church bells had accustomed them to a more precise knowledge of the rhythm of the hours than the judges themselves possessed . |
| 8 | As a leading historian of medieval technology has remarked , ‘ No European community felt able to hold up its head unless in its midst the planets wheeled in cycles and epicycles , whilst angels trumpeted and countermarched at the booming of the hours . ’ |
| 9 | It followed that the periods varied in length from season to season and hence the duration of the hours fluctuated . |
| 10 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 11 | It seems to me that anyone having a job done should take careful note of the hours worked , or spent , on it and how many men are employed , or , at least , on the spot . |
| 12 | This in turn is usually measured in a building surveying practice in terms of billable value of the hours for all fee earners . |
| 13 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |
| 14 | In order for the exception under article 11 to come into operation so as to relieve drivers and those who permit them to drive in excess of the hours which are prescribed there must be a real emergency . |
| 15 | Work began at dawn , taking advantage of the hours before the sun grilled the earth and the earth in turn reflected its own massive heat . |
| 16 | When I think of the hours and hours spent rewinding wool during my machine knitting life — why , I could have knitted dozens of garments . |
| 17 | Print absorbed many of the hours of solitary darkness . |
| 18 | After the end of the hours during which sales are permitted , ten minutes is allowed for drinking up liquor already purchased . |
| 19 | The model sat from ten till one , with usually fifteen minute intervals at the striking of the hours . |
| 20 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 21 | This is different from straightforward part-time employment because job-sharing requires those concerned to arrange among themselves the distribution of the hours of a full-time employee . |
| 22 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 23 | mark the passing of the hours . |
| 24 | Some firms introduce a percentage factor into the calculation and only pay between 50% and 90% of the hours saved . |
| 25 | So the day passed normally , with the usual ritual of work and reading , study and prayer punctuated by the regular round of the hours . |
| 26 | ( 1 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a hotel licence , restricted hotel licence , or restaurant licence is held and to any premises for which a public house licence or refreshment licence is held and in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been granted under Schedule 4 to this Act if the licence-holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of section 58(1) of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in section 58(3) of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by , the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) and ( 8 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a public house licence is held and to which section 59 of this Act applies if the licence holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) of section 59 of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) of section 59 of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 5 ) to ( 7 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 28 | I was struck by the Minister 's litany of the hours kept by the Committee considering the Local Government Finance Bill because I served on the Committee . |
| 29 | of your chin , of the hours , propped on your arm 's |
| 30 | In February , councillors refused to allow a variation of the hours . |