Example sentences of "by [art] passage [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Histoire , the narrator is engaged in the elaboration of descriptions which are suggested by a set of postcards : he attempts to evoke and organize these fragments of the past , aware that it is ultimately unknowable and that reconstructions are inevitably incomplete and distorted by the passage of time . |
| 2 | It is the Company 's policy to maintain properties comprising its licensed estate in such condition that their value to the business of the estate as a whole is not affected by the passage of time . |
| 3 | Such mastery , however , will normally be brief ; it is unlikely to outlast the passing of crisis and/or movement in the cycles of history ; it will not survive substantial loss of congressional or popular support and it will be relentlessly eroded by the passage of time . |
| 4 | Most of my informants retained very happy memories of the atmosphere of the composing-room , possibly a little coloured by the passage of time ; but there does seem to have been a good deal of good humour and fun . |
| 5 | it 's unhurt by ti , by the passage of time ? |
| 6 | The photocopier has made reliance on a publisher less necessary than it was , but the future of the material coming from parish musicians will nevertheless be determined by the passage of time and the growing musical literacy of the public . |
| 7 | The validity of these take up assumptions is obviously affected by the passage of time from late August to late September and the firmness of the UF figures is known from experience to vary widely between fields ; the estimated enrolment figures are therefore used only as an approximate guide to the Co-ordinator and senior tutors in deciding on the numbers of late offers to be made at special weekly meetings of the MAC in September . |
| 8 | Under these circumstances the future details of a transaction can be settled only when uncertainty is resolved by the passage of time . |
| 9 | For Richard Burnell , the Olympic spirit of 1948 has been tarnished by the passage of time . |