Example sentences of "from [art] times " in BNC.

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1 Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey .
2 Journalists could whip up public indignation but cricket and football authorities were singularly unresponsive to press influence apart from The Times .
3 Instead , it should recommend privatising the Tote — a state-owned hangover from the times before commercial betting was legal — and reforming the laws on gambling .
4 ‘ He 's seeing the girl from The Times , ’ I announced , stifling a black envy .
5 The reporter from The Times was obviously unaware of Nonconformity 's great appeal to ‘ the stronger sex ’ and noted that the audience ‘ consisted almost entirely of men , who interrupted the sermon again and again by enthusiastic cheering ’ .
6 From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world .
7 Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building .
8 The prevalence of infection among patients in hospital divided according to the major types of infection concerned , according to a survey of 18 163 patients in 43 hospitals in England and wales , 1980 ( Reproduced from The Times Health Supplement With permission )
9 At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution …
10 The following have been reserved for coach parking from the times stated ( coaches parking earlier than the times given risk being towed away ) :
11 While other families played Monopoly and Mah Jong , we sat round the fire , Sunday evenings after supper , and read out old leaders from The Times in turn .
12 Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles .
13 Trish Bissett , Dick Langton and Prim McHamish , who did most of the organising , acquired many new or nearly new books from publishers and bookshops , and review copies from the Times Educational Supplement .
14 Our quotations from the 1790s and from the Times in 1880 ( see chapter 3 ) indicate that the feeling is at least two hundred years old .
15 If we call the popular press a mass medium , as we might when distinguishing the Sun from The Times , we refer to circulation numbers ( the ‘ receivers ’ ) .
16 The only fully independents were The Observer , belonging to a different branch of the Astor family from The Times , the Co-operative movement 's Reynolds ' News , and the huge News of the World , to become larger still , run by the Carr family .
17 Headlines like RAPIST OF 16 WAS LIKE A VULTURE GOING IN FOR THE KILL and TOMBSTONE RAPIST LIKE A VULTURE ? couple of popular dailies , but the first was from The Times and the second from the Sun .
18 George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) .
19 Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity .
20 Unfortunately no excerpts could be taken from THE TIMES .
21 Right from the times of the giant horsetails and ferns , insects had been accustomed to visiting the tops of trees to gather spores as food .
22 He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past .
23 I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men .
24 She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime .
25 ‘ There 's this competitive rugby survey thing that 's come round from The Times , ’ said Reg Certes , the club secretary .
26 Extracts from The Times grouped round 4 major themes : Employment , Finance , Trade and Science .
27 This is no easy task when it is aimed at an entire work force and when the normal reading habits of the employees may range from The Times at one end to The Sun at the other .
28 The cutting that he tossed across to us is part of an article from The Times Educational Supplement .
29 He had pursued the errant couple from The Times party to Brighton 's only Portuguese restaurant and back to the lift in the Grand Hotel .
30 Opposition to the Shah 's regime was disparate — fragments of the old National Front , a survival from the times of Mossadeq in the 1940s and 1950s ; a miscellany of resurgent Islamic and minor left-wing groups ; the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party ; disappointed businessmen who perceived the hand of the Shah 's family behind every deal they failed to clinch ; and smaller traders who resented the Shah 's busying himself with high prices in the bazaar .
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