Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 2 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 3 | Thus , while the 1950s and 1960s saw a growth in employment , they were also a period of significant delocalization and the manufacturing sector was increasingly composed of ‘ branch plants ’ . |
| 4 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 5 | " The first six months at the ICO were definitely a period of strange readjustment . " |
| 6 | Thus , the search for jobs is not a period of inactivity — it involves finding out what jobs are available , sending off application forms , going to interviews and perhaps attending courses , all of which make job-searching a very busy time . |
| 7 | This time is not the period required overall but the actual time the chemical is in contact with the soil and is known as contact time . |
| 8 | Recently , the Auditing Practices Board ( APB ) suggested in the preface to its Exposure Draft , Going Concern , that ‘ … one year is normally the period during which it is expected that the financial statements can reasonably be relied upon ’ . |
| 9 | There is usually a period of mourning after the sacrifice of the animal or bird , and then a feast after the eating of the meal . |
| 10 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 11 | It is moreover the period of the newly general modem meanings of ‘ the arts ’ and ‘ the artist ’ , as terms indicating more than specific practices and practitioners and now centrally including conceptions of general ( and then often alternative or oppositional ) values . |
| 12 | The period in which these ideas were becoming general , from the late eighteenth century , is also the period of the attempted distinction between ( ‘ external ’ ) ‘ civilization ’ and ( ‘ internal ’ or ‘ human ’ ) ‘ culture ’ . |
| 13 | It is also the period when poverty in old age was identified as a major social problem and much surveyed ; and when geriatric medicine first became firmly established . |
| 14 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 15 | But the modernisation of Greece will probably come faster in the late 1990s if there is now a period of four- or five-party politics . |
| 16 | In statutory terms this is often a period of just three days . |
| 17 | In general hospital settings , there is often a period of staff overlap in the early afternoon , which is ideal for teaching and learning . |
| 18 | The first stage in its life-cycle is therefore a period of very fast or supernormal growth . |
| 19 | This early period is essentially the period of Ramsay 's achievements in ‘ masculine ’ portraiture , in the sense of both the style and the subject matter . |
| 20 | The so-called ‘ age of reptiles ’ was merely a period when there were more reptiles than mammals because the earth had enjoyed uniformly hot conditions . |
| 21 | The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs . |
| 22 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 23 | These disputes were once described as ‘ British sociology 's wars of religion ’ , and , while sociology emerged in the late 1970s as a stronger discipline than it had been previously , this was not a period which was very productive in terms of sociology 's public image . |
| 24 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 25 | The eighteenth century was not a period of gradual progress towards democracy in Britain , as Whig historians have tried to suggest , but of a determined retreat from it . |
| 26 | But this was not a period of straightforward centralized rule . |
| 27 | Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth . |
| 28 | The purpose of the dance panel was to assess applications for degrees in dance , and as Brinson emphasizes , 1975–76 was still a period when it was possible to envisage the development of subjects and the availability of resources . |
| 29 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 30 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |