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

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1 Mr Attlee , for example , saw his job as being ‘ to collect the voices of the Cabinet ’ and Mr Wilson compared his role as prime Minister at various times to a soccer ‘ midfield sweeper ’ , or the ‘ the conductor of the orchestra ’ .
2 BJORN BORG has a typically stubborn riposte to those saddened by the sight of one of the game 's greatest champions being reduced at times to a level barely above that of a novice .
3 Bill had been enough times to a morgue .
4 The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do .
5 However , in a sediment with a large proportion of lithic clasts this may involve changing many times to a different magnification ( generally larger , to identify the whole clast ) .
6 Demographic transition is the movement from the high birth and death rates of former times to a ‘ modern ’ regime of low birth and death rates .
7 The skald Sighvat 's poem Austrfararvísur ( Eastern Travel Verses ) describes a journey to Sweden by its author on behalf of Olaf of Norway , and refers several times to a chieftain named Ragnvald , who appears once with " the wise Ulf " .
8 Compare and date your own textiles with those at the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Textile Galleries , from room 96 to 101 , which include samples from ancient Egyptian times to the present century , and with the museum 's Dress Collection .
9 Recently opened at the Museum of London 's Treasury is ‘ Treasures & Trinkets ’ — jewellery from pre-Roman times to the 1930s .
10 She complained several times to the concierge , but because the elevator behaved quite normally and decently towards the other tenants , the concierge considered Agnes 's quarrel with it her own private matter and paid no attention .
11 The government 's efforts to reign in inflation led to interest rates reaching about 15.4 p.c. in early 1990 before being cut six times to the current level of 10.95 p.c
12 Communities in which there is a very special relationship between the individual and his neighbours , regulated to some extent by statute , but to a very much greater extent by custom and consensus ; and , of course , subject at times to the frictions and disruptions which are inevitable in any human situation .
13 It was thoroughly well laid out , with fact-sheets for the kids — including free pencils — exhibits dating from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through a mock graphite mine .
14 Move several times to the right , then to the left .
15 formerly an area on the north bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster bridges , belonging from ancient times to the borough of Lambeth ; according to legend it was bequeathed to the borough by a pedlar on condition that his portrait , and that of his dog , should be preserved for ever in one of the parish church 's stained glass windows .
16 Roll the head three times to the left , then three times to the right , breathing easily all the time .
17 Roll the head three times to the left , then three times to the right , breathing easily all the time .
18 The Centre 's displays illustrate the changing landscape from geological times to the present date .
19 Freight delivery times to the Continent could be reduced substantially by using rail transport through the Tunnel rather than road haulage to one of the North Sea ports although the degree of benefit is dependent on British Rail 's as yet unannounced charges for its new Continental freight services .
20 All this may seem a little behind the times to the modern generation and to feminists , but I recognize that it was the way of my mother 's and father 's world .
21 It is assumed John travelled first as a student , to Paris and perhaps elsewhere in France ; then he travelled countless times to the curia on the business of his master Theobald , archbishop of Canterbury ; and from his letters we know of at least two other major pilgrimages he undertook from his exile at Rheims in the 1160s .
22 Tradition and dissent , from Saxon times to the present day .
23 Northampton 's architectural heritage — Medieval times to the present day .
24 This museum 's displays illustrate the history of leather use from earliest times to the present day .
25 Moreover , some of the countries where xenophobia has been politically mobilised very powerfully are , like France , also countries which in the past received , even encouraged , and successfully assimilated mass immigration to an extent almost comparable at times to the US : Italians , Spaniards , Poles , even North Africans .
26 He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism .
27 In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance .
28 Chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times to the present .
29 It was a port from Norman times to the 19th century , and has an 11th-century castle perched high on the cliffs above the River Wye and a pretty church with a Norman nave .
30 Covering artists from Byzantine times to the nineteenth century , it should allow scholars to establish underdrawing styles for individual painters .
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