Example sentences of "gone are [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone are the days when women and children scrabbled along the furrows in the wake of a plough or simple digger collecting the fruits of the earth by hand . |
| 2 | Gone are the movie-halls and lawyers ' offices on Chicago 's south side , once the ritzier part of town for blacks . |
| 3 | Gone are the days when dessert fruit which was n't fit for the mansion dining room was doled out by the head gardener to his hard-working bothy boys . |
| 4 | Gone are the days when your emotional state was indicated by the depth of black border around the edge of your stationery or by changing your clothes from black to mauve to grey . |
| 5 | They will have to sweat it out — but gone are the expansive days when the Japanese banks were the world 's lender of first resort . |
| 6 | Gone are the days when Hull among behaviourists or Lorenz among the classical ethologists could assume that all motivational mechanisms were of the similar type . |
| 7 | Gone are the days of slipping the boss a bar of chocolate at a break ; now it 's a banana or an apple to supply the energy and get rid of hunger pains , or , as Ian Wright administers to Seve Ballesteros , a muesli bar . |
| 8 | Gone are the days when Grandma lived down the road and Auntie Maud was just around the corner , each of them providing a comforting and experienced shoulder for the young mother to lean upon . |
| 9 | Gone are the days of spending frantically because the end of the financial year was nigh . |
| 10 | Gone are the days when organisations automatically recruited new graduates irrespective of their degree topic on the basis that three years at university show that someone has the intelligence and application needed to hold down a job . |
| 11 | Gone are the days of the one-to-one gentleman 's agreement ; handsets have replaced handshakes . |
| 12 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 13 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 14 | Gone are the days of returnable bottles and jars . |
| 15 | Gone are the days when fruit and vegetables were eaten only in the area and season in which they were harvested , and a few put aside for home pickling or preserving . |
| 16 | ‘ Gone are the days when we used to crumble half a ola of it into a chillim of tobacco . ’ |
| 17 | Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club . |
| 18 | Gone are the concept albums and such thirty-minute epics as Supper 's Ready , to be replaced by shorter , straight-to-the-point material like Tonight , Tonight , Tonight and the chart hit I Ca n't Dance . |
| 19 | Gone are the days when all Christmas school plays focused on the Nativity . |
| 20 | GONE are the days when giving a child a book was seen as a somewhat unimaginative Christmas present . |
| 21 | Gone are the days when the average man would be happy with soap on a rope in his Christmas stocking . |
| 22 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 23 | Gone are the days of deputation . |
| 24 | Gone are the days of deputation . |
| 25 | Gone are the ties round the feet and in comes a full , loosely fitting single-piece garment , pleated at the neck but still with the top-knot ; the face is completely exposed , showing the features in a peaceful attitude of repose , the limbs no longer with a stiff formality but a far more relaxed naturalism . |
| 26 | Sandwiches are often the easiest and most varied choice available at the local snack bar Gone are the days when a British sandwich meant two dried and curled slices of white bread with an indeterminate piece of pinkish meat lost somewhere in between . |
| 27 | Gone are the days when you had to wear cosmetic colours that matched your brows or hair . |
| 28 | Gone are the days of AEC . |
| 29 | Gone are the days when the need for air gaps at the side and back of the cooker spoiled the lines of your kitchen . |
| 30 | Gone are the days when only the Madonnas of the world get to preen in public . |