Example sentences of "was [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the period until 1830 was the time of the early travellers ; second , from 1830 until 1930 was the period of early botanists and naturalists ; third , 1930 until 1980 was the period of the first ecological studies and also of Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison and Miss M. S. Campbell ; and finally the 1980s , the period of the Integrated Development Programme ( 1982–1987 ) , which gave rise to more intensive research . |
| 2 | First , the period until 1830 was the time of the early travellers ; second , from 1830 until 1930 was the period of early botanists and naturalists ; third , 1930 until 1980 was the period of the first ecological studies and also of Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison and Miss M. S. Campbell ; and finally the 1980s , the period of the Integrated Development Programme ( 1982–1987 ) , which gave rise to more intensive research . |
| 3 | It was the period which spawned Joy Division , The Distractions , A Certain Ratio and Steven Morrissey 's favourite Ludus . |
| 4 | But it was the period between 1986 and 1989 that put Andy and Nick at the fore as the most formidable team in Europe , and probably worldwide , in recent years . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the memory of the treatment Mrs Thatcher had dealt out to ‘ It Took a Riot ’ , around the time of the 1983 general election Heseltine was telling friends he was very concerned about an accretion of power to the premiership ( this was the period when the possibility of a prime minister 's department or , at the very least , a beefed-up Downing Street Policy Unit was being floated ) . |
| 6 | Talk of Stalin had become taboo : it was the period of de-Stalinisation . |
| 7 | What then was the period in which The Economics was written ? |
| 8 | Fortunately , it was the period when Keaton was just being rediscovered . |
| 9 | This was the period which saw a revolution in popular music and the beginning of rock'n'roll . |
| 10 | The ‘ golden age ’ of the English funeral , as far as undertaking techniques were concerned , was the period from 1725 to 1775 and most of the finest extant coffins in public and private vaults were made during that time . |
| 11 | During the height of the Reagan-Thatcher era , the name of the game was to ‘ dress for success ’ , although this was the period which also spawned hip hop , rap , and its attendant anti-statusquo culture . |
| 12 | Especially vivid was the period in Jessamyn Bonney 's life between her first meeting with the Josephite motorwagons and the burning of Spanish Fork , when she had worn his spectacles . |
| 13 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 14 | This was the period that saw the creation plays of Tazelle and Torion Fireheart 's animated court portraits . |
| 15 | The second was the period of civil-rights and civil-liberties cases that started with Brown v Board of Education in 1954 and which was brought to an end — according to the conventional wisdom — by the appointment of a block of five ‘ conservative ’ judges by Ronald Reagan and George Bush . |
| 16 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 17 | This was the period of great excitement at the Jardin du Roi with , and , and of that famous duo in Arcueil , and . |
| 18 | In Britain such was the period following the defeat of Clodius Albinus in the civil war of AD 196 . |
| 19 | Describing the show 's conception , Dr Fox told The Art Newspaper , ‘ After much deliberation as to which was the period in which London was ‘ most itself ’ , we dismissed the more obvious eighteenth century and High Victorian eras . |
| 20 | Mr Getty bought Sutton Place in the 1960s , and this was the period when he most enjoyed acquiring pictures . |
| 21 | The crucial time was the period spent at Aubagne , fifteen kilometres outside Marseilles , which was the depot of the whole Foreign Legion . |
| 22 | This was the period following Galileo 's move from Padua , where he had held the chair of mathematics since 1592 , to Florence where he had been appointed philosopher and mathematician to Cosimo II , grand duke of Tuscany . |
| 23 | Two years was the period finally agreed upon . |
| 24 | The first stage was the period of pioneering work : the abortive first attempts at machine translation ; the earliest computer concordances ; the early authorship studies of Morton , Ellegard , Mosteller and Wallace ; the first conferences on computing in the humanities ( 1964–7 ) and the more specialised ones in history and anthropology ( from 1962 ) and in literature and linguistics ( from 1970 ) . |
| 25 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 26 | In a wider cultural perspective , this was the period too of Fascism and Stalinism , of the apparent collapse of socialist revolutionary possibilities in the advanced capitalist countries , and of the emergence within ‘ Western Marxism ’ of varied attempts ( by Lukács , by Gramsci and by the Frankfurt School , to which Adorno belonged ) to adapt Marxist theory in ways which took account of these developments . |
| 27 | There were also other reasons why resentment of Athens should have intensified in the late 450s : for instance , this was the period of the first cleruchies ( settlements of Athenians on allied territory abroad ) . |
| 28 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 29 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 30 | ‘ Tyrranopolis ’ was the period of moral decadence and a failure of governments , terminating in ‘ Nekropolis ’ where war , famine and disease racked the city . |