Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 . |
| 2 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 3 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
| 4 | For the two days of the show I cluck round them — soothing , calming , encouraging and reassuring . |
| 5 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 6 | I recall one evening , during the early days of the campaign , when on three occasions on different channels ( an arts programme and two awards ceremonies ) public statements were made against the Clause . |
| 7 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 8 | The obligation arising from the Pact of San Sebastian was reinforced during the early days of the Republic , when the Esquerra leader , Macià , was only persuaded to withdraw his proclamation of a ‘ Catalan Republic within a Spanish Federal Republic ’ by the promise of early action on the autonomy issue and the immediate concession of a regional government , the Generalitat ( Sp . |
| 9 | True , inflation has been brought down from around 30% a year during the gung-ho days of the disgraced party chief , Mr Zhao Ziyang , to single figures . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had discovered and used their secret love-nest during the lazier days of the summer . |
| 11 | Six hours of daylight is claimed to give 12 hours of night time light , but of course these cast a soft diffused light rather than a beam you can direct creatively like a spotlight , and they have limitations during the dull days of a typical British winter . |
| 12 | When the Exchange Rate Mechanism was being created , during the final days of the last Labour Government , the then Prime Minister decided Britain could not take part . |
| 13 | It was only natural that anyone with a garage and mechanical knowhow would be tempted during the heady days of the Flea ‘ craze ’ to ‘ have a go ’ . |
| 14 | Finding a hot and filling breakfast that 's acceptable during the eight days of the Passover is n't easy . |
| 15 | He had been told that the Chairman had with a handgun shot dead a general who had dared to argue with his strategy during the dark days of the war . |
| 16 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 17 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 18 | Aurel Dragos Munteanu , appointed director of Romanian Television and Radio during the first days of the December revolution , resigned on Feb. 9 after widespread public criticism that he had manipulated broadcasting to benefit the NSF . |
| 19 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 20 | John Glynn of Morval had been appointed Under-Steward to the Duchy of Cornwall during the disturbed days of the Wars of the Roses . |
| 21 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 22 | A large part of the world had special trading and investment relations with the UK stemming mainly from the ties forged during the earlier days of the Empire . |
| 23 | ‘ Thomas White , a tippler , for keeping shuffle board play ’ came before the Court during the stern days of the Commonwealth , while in 1666 were charged , ‘ John Parson , James his son , Stephen Parker and Sidney Randall for not going to church on the Lord 's day ’ . |
| 24 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 25 | After operations against the Caroline Islands in June 1945 , 1771 's Mk 1s were involved in strikes on the Japanese mainland during the last days of the war — hence the map . |
| 26 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 27 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |
| 28 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 29 | However , the appointment was made unilaterally by the USA , which during the last days of the Noriega regime had rejected a Panamanian proposal to appoint Tomás Altamirano Duque . |
| 30 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |