Example sentences of "time [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Here for the first time the actual shape of the Council was outlined .
2 This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor .
3 Yet all this time the front wheel is pointing dead ahead and the bike is driving hard towards the next , faster left .
4 This time the middle brother was keeping guard over it while the other two carried some of the fruit to market .
5 At the same time the downward rigidity of wages prevented social demand from cumulative collapse .
6 During this time the rough villages blossomed into small towns , the people multiplied , and many new settlements were founded .
7 And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports .
8 Mr. Adey 's judgement of the state of the old House of Industry was harsh , but possibly justified by the facts contained in the last annual report and account , up to March 1836 , by which time the average number of inmates had fallen to sixty-six .
9 However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework .
10 At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be .
11 At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended .
12 At the same time the contemporary composers Satie , Auric , Honegger , Poulenc , Milhaud and Germaine Taillefer had their works played on the piano by the Brazilian pianist Ricardo Vines .
13 In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself .
14 If we do not try to grasp the relations between popular music discourses and the material musical practices to which they refer , and at the same time the necessary distinctness of level between these , we are unlikely to break through the structures of power which , as Foucault makes clear , discursive authority erects .
15 Suppose that interest rates in Italy are higher by 2 per cent than in the UK and at the same time the necessary discount applied to the spot rate were only 1 per cent .
16 However , this time the Central Committee intervened to remove Piatakov from his official position .
17 At the same time the disabled , growing in self-confidence , asserted themselves more forcefully than in the past .
18 It 's the first time the disabled driving championships have been held at Gatcombe and the prestigious venue attracted a good entry of competitors determined to master the challenging course .
19 It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down .
20 The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable .
21 When a jury is satisfied that the act was committed , but that at the time the accused was so insane as not to be legally responsible , it brings in a special verdict of ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ , though the accused is then ordered to be detained during the ‘ Queen 's pleasure ’ .
22 It is the first time the Swiss have been given a vote on the defence budget .
23 For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape .
24 For the first time the ordinary workers and managers glimpsed the true faces of the hybrids who had lurked in their midst , cloaked and hooded , or masked .
25 Although we now refer to token payments as ‘ peppercorn ’ rents , at one time the ordinary people ( and later the traders ) had to pay levies or taxes on pepper .
26 IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati .
27 For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack .
28 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 .
29 so that by the time the eastern goods reached the Mediterranean only the most uninspiring of the diamonds were left .
30 And the Scots have every right to feel a ‘ wee bit peeved ’ at Montgomery Pipe Band , as this is the first time the overall championship trophy has gone outside the Highlands .
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