Example sentences of "in [art] time of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 2 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 3 | In the time of Diocletian the principal apartment was a long gallery on the south side facing the sea on whose façade a magnificent colonnade stretched along the Adriatic . |
| 4 | In the time of Augustus the list that was compiled of magistrates of the Republic was based on counting from 752 BC . |
| 5 | The most important of the exhibitions staged to commemorate the fifth centenary of the death of Lorenzo de Medici is undoubtedly ‘ Il Disegno Fiorentino del tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifico ’ ( Florentine drawing in the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent ) at the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi ( 8 April to 26 July ) . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , over at the Spedale degli Innocenti , also from 8 April , you can see ‘ L'Architettura dell'età del Magnifico a Firenze e nel territorio toscano ’ ( Architecture in Florence and Tuscany in the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent ) . |
| 7 | In England the chapel was fully manned in the time of Edward the Confessor ( though the title ‘ chancellor ’ is generally thought to have been instituted by the Normans ) . |