Example sentences of "most of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In How Prints Look , first published in 1943 , he wrote ‘ an elementary introduction to the appearances ( the outward and visible signs ) of prints ’ , and cautioned that : ‘ Most of the time spent over it should be given to looking at its pictures . ’ |
| 2 | Do not most of us search for excuses most of the time ? |
| 3 | She led with the chin and got her own way most of the time . |
| 4 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 5 | As rain threatened throughout the week , but failed to actually materialise most of the time , there were fewer disruptions than usual , and another delightful aspect of Beckenham week was able to take place . |
| 6 | In his particular style of demi-caractère dance he used classical footwork for most of the time but , from the waist upwards through the body , arms and head , he tried to convey how his performers worked and played in the environment to which they belonged . |
| 7 | Why get all worked up about a crag that is unclimable for most of the time ? |
| 8 | Raskolnikov lives with his pain , but most of the time he does n't focus on it . |
| 9 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 10 | Incorporated in PCN handsets , pagers would have the advantage of consuming very little power and would allow the power-hungry PCN telephone to be switched off most of the time . |
| 11 | Most of the time I find it 's regret on the part of the victim . |
| 12 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 13 | Most of the time he left his two curates to get on with their thing . |
| 14 | The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information . |
| 15 | I remember trying to make sense out of these ghostly darting signs that overlaid the story of the film , which most of the time I could n't follow . |
| 16 | It was often buried away among Regency reproduction furniture in shops which were empty most of the time . |
| 17 | Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely . |
| 18 | There is a garage/café where souvenirs of a kind can be bought but only a very good marketing man could come up with something stunning from a spot where most of the time nothing is happening . |
| 19 | Most of the time it failed to make it out of the pit lane . |
| 20 | We fought like hell for most of the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't hear what they were saying most of the time , ’ Omi said , as Erika ran her eye down the list of calls written in Omi 's shaky , old-fashioned script . |
| 22 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 23 | Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative . |
| 24 | The Palace defence , once as leaky as MI5 ( remember the 9-0 defeat by Liverpool ) was under pressure most of the time but withstood it , and the striker Bright , on the three occasions he was given a chance , hit the bar once and scored twice , with characteristic headers , giving Palace their first away win in the League this season . |
| 25 | They want to appeal to people 's better nature , but to do that they ca n't point out what shmucks most of us are , most of the time . |
| 26 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |
| 27 | ‘ Most of the time , ’ he replies drily . |
| 28 | ‘ Most of the time , ’ is his reply . |
| 29 | Industrial society has managed to bake bigger and richer cakes for most of the past two centuries , suffering the occasional bouts of indigestion , but getting fatter most of the time . |
| 30 | By way of contrast , the British campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars and in the Second World War were fought , perforce , with a Maritime strategy for most of the time ; but , as the Continental school rightly points out , final victory was won on the Continent at Waterloo in 1815 and in north-west Europe in 1945 . |