Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] period [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 2 | Numerous other fragments of buildings , many of barn-like or shop-like forms , have been discovered in the suburbs , representing almost the entire Roman period from the lat e first century onwards . |
| 3 | The six rooms on the main floor of the Academy will be devoted to : innovations in composition in the second half of the eighteenth century , through to the early work of Cotman and Girtin , with an emphasis on the importance of Alexander Cozens ; topography , spanning the entire chronological period from the Sandby brothers to Lear ; naturalism , including watercolour sketches , observations of nature , still-lifes , animal studies etc. ; later developments in composition ; atmosphere , stressing the ‘ proto-impressionist ’ nature of works by artists such as Cox and Muller ; and lastly the relationship between watercolours and oils and the role of the Old Water-Colour Society in the promotion of the medium as suitable to portray historical and literary subjects . |
| 4 | The remaining evidence is all later than this , ranging from late classical law ( Ulpian ) to the fourth century , the early post-classical period of the Epitome of Ulpian and the sententiae of Paul . |
| 5 | Mukerji focuses on the early modern period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as marking a highly significant rise in material culture , so that peasants and ordinary town dwellers who had remarkably few personal possessions in late medieval periods ( Braudel 1981 : 283 ) were becoming familiar with many more products , and from a much wider area ( Burke 1978 : 246–8 ) . |
| 6 | On one side is a reiteration of the Whiggish , teleological view of history which dominated the nineteenth century , demonstrating present western culture as the result of a continuous enlightenment and development of civilisation from the beginnings of the early modern period until the present . |
| 7 | The airlines made their moves yesterday to counter the traditional slack period on the normally busy American routes from after Easter until June . |
| 8 | Well , I I I mean , it , it , it 's nothing to the stories that were circulating in the late Victorian period about the Duke of |
| 9 | Over recent years the literature on this has focused on the late Victorian period as the source of the problem [ Coleman , 1973 ; Weiner , 1981 ] . |
| 10 | Some historians have been arguing recently that payments of census and hostilicium specified in some polyptychs are forms of tax collection and demonstrate the continuity of taxation , and of the administrative structures to exact it , from the late Roman period to the Carolingians . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region . |
| 12 | Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution , the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times . |
| 13 | The book can be seen as an attempt by Scott to assert himself as leading expert on Gothic Revival secular buildings , perhaps having felt that during the great church-building period of the 1840s and 1850s his work was overshadowed by that of other architects , particularly Pugin and Street . |
| 14 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 15 | Far from seeing the ascent of Labour in the immediate postwar period as a spontaneous response to frustrated hopes and deteriorating social conditions , it was rather a resolution or convergence of deeper currents at a specific historical conjuncture . |
| 16 | A second possibility was an origin in the Middle Saxon period in the first half of the eighth century AD : evidence for this occupation comes from both documentary sources and finds from the site . |
| 17 | As the later authors have adjusted the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Arab in order to make room for that of Abdulkerim , so they have stretched the facts considerably in extending the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the whole vexed period from the date which they give for the death of Fahreddin Acemi , namely 865/1460–1 , to that which they give for the accession of Molla Gurani ( 885/1480 ; but cf. below , pp. 144 et sqq. , especially p. 150 ) . |
| 18 | A third kind of explanation for the relationship between income and age is that it is the result of a cohort effect : that is , older elderly people are poorer because they were born and spent their working lives during a different historical period from the ‘ young ’ elderly . |
| 19 | A Scottish-born CA and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants he may be but , apart from a brief initial period in a practising firm and then Lothian Regional Council , before coming to Provincial three years ago he had fairly rapidly made a successful impact in senior general management in retail banking , with TSB in Scotland . |
| 20 | In a speech later on the same day , Rabin referred to the " autonomy " to be ceded during a five-year transitional period to the Palestinians of the occupied territories , and emphasized that by " autonomy … |
| 21 | Before planting outside , they will require a short hardening-off period in a cold frame or cool greenhouse . |
| 22 | I did wish , and spent a happy preparatory period in a haze of vodka and tonic . |
| 23 | The exhibition concentrates upon a critical seven-year period in the evolution of Pop Art and is part of Schimmel 's interest in the transitional stages of modern American art . |
| 24 | They measured long-term performance by adding the DCF over a projected five-year period to the discounted future market value ( DFMV ) of the unit at the end of that period . |