Example sentences of "for [art] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the time the first pioneers arrived to the present day , the white man has felt compelled to tame the desert , to reduce its primeval vastness to human dimensions . |
| 2 | Berkshire family health services authority amended the new form from July 1991 to ask for the time the visit was made . |
| 3 | The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation . |
| 4 | Using DCE 's equipment , a ‘ meeting ’ with colleagues in the United States would cost about £2.80 per minute , about £1.60 per minute in France and in the UK the normal cost of a digital telephone line for the time the users are connected . |
| 5 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |
| 6 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 7 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 8 | For a time a chorus of bells from the monastery seemed to peel in celebration each time I finished a pitch . |
| 9 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 10 | For a time a battle raged between the supporters in each camp . |
| 11 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 12 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 13 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 14 | Ahmed Ahmedi was at the airport and for a time no one knew what to do with me . |
| 15 | They looked at her and for a time no one said anything . |
| 16 | For a time no one spoke . |
| 17 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 18 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 19 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 20 | For a time the two saw each other daily . |
| 21 | The inspiration of Alexander is apparent in the portraits of Pompey , the most powerful Roman of his day , and for a time the effective ruler of the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 22 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 23 | For a time the decline in Canada 's conventional oil reserves was to be met by the development of Western Canada 's gigantic oil sands deposits . |
| 24 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 25 | Cutting off the flow of refugees did not solve the financial problem , though for a time the government acted on the assumption that the refugee organisations could now look after themselves . |
| 26 | For a time the villagers must share their breezes , shops and sunshine with the leisure seekers . |
| 27 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 28 | For a time the Romans applied it to virtually the whole of Greece . |
| 29 | For a time the movement for reform even embraced demands for a Constitution . |
| 30 | For a time the joy of motherhood overcame her eating-disorder . |