Example sentences of "in [art] mists [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 2 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 3 | Since he began first-class cricket way back in the mists of 1966 he has bowled some 80,000 balls and taken well over 1,200 wickets . |
| 4 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 5 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 6 | In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late . |
| 7 | With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book . |
| 8 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 9 | It is indeed hard to distinguish , in the mists of the so-called ‘ dark ages ’ of Cornwall , as to where fact and fantasy merge . |
| 10 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 11 | He is frequently wrapped in the mists of carbon dioxide and seen against a background of bubbles travelling along glass tubes . |
| 12 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 13 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 14 | The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail . |
| 15 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 16 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 17 | Much is hidden in the mists of the early Triassic , which is probably the least-known episode in the long history of Phanerozoic time . |
| 18 | She struggled to sit up , still wrapped in the mists of sleep , and he transferred his gaze from her shoulders to her breasts . |
| 19 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 20 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 21 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |
| 22 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |
| 23 | Three days ago they were trying to dodge a massacre in Bosnia , now despite half their families being slaughtered they seem happy to play in the mists of an Oxfordshire morning nearly two thousand miles from home . |