Example sentences of "of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical decision for planning a survey is to take a century , or the reign of some sovereign to delimit a period ; this is a device with no relationship to the artistic activity of the time . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Problems of authenticity are not so great or modern art as for other periods , even if a gifted forger like the painter Elmir de Horty can fool some of the people for some of the time . |
| 4 | It was in 1761 , that he first wrote an account of one of the Salons , which was circulated with his other correspondence in the fashion of the time by his friend Grimm . |
| 5 | For much of the time , he is the achiever who tries for a reasonable percentage return . |
| 6 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 7 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 8 | Do not most of us search for excuses most of the time ? |
| 9 | And Goldberg in the margin : for the whole of the time I knew him he had , stuck on his studio wall , a reproduction of Picasso 's amazing 1943 painting of the mother teaching her child to walk . |
| 10 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 11 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 12 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 13 | In this section are described ways of getting back into practice and of improving flying skills by making better use of the time in the air . |
| 14 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 15 | She led with the chin and got her own way most of the time . |
| 16 | When Mr Cohen was well , they lived the life of any well-to-do family of the time , in the Edwardian style of the period . |
| 17 | Similarly , he performed at various locations in the States , reading his poetry to the accompaniment of Maury Kay , a well known jazz musician of the time . |
| 18 | It 's the rest of the time I 'm talking about . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The train make–up is typical of the time with air–conditioned Mk2 stock supported by Mk1 braking coaches . |
| 22 | Each reflects something of the period and quality of the music , the period being of the time when written by the composer or when presented as a ballet and the quality being that inspired in the choreographer by the composer . |
| 23 | It was the ideas behind this design that so interested not only the audience but also the music critics of the time ( see page 41 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Why get all worked up about a crag that is unclimable for most of the time ? |
| 26 | Raskolnikov lives with his pain , but most of the time he does n't focus on it . |
| 27 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 28 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 29 | You ca n't please all of the people all of the time . |
| 30 | Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation . |