Example sentences of "[art] [adj] period in " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , when the occasion demanded it ( as it did during the turbulent period in which he became Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University ) , he showed great courage and firmness — the latter always in the nicest possible way .
2 This is the first full study of the greatest period in the city 's history , which produced such painters as Melozzo and Palmezzano .
3 I spent most of the intervening period in the National Portrait Gallery .
4 The panel also proposed retaining the controversial renewable seven-year presidential term , the longest period in office for a western elected ruler .
5 He soon made his mark in encouraging activities within the Hall such as debates , musical performances , a water colour painting group and culminating in an annual outdoor play in the post-exam period in the attractive gardens of the Hall .
6 In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties .
7 Much less unacceptable would be a shorter warrant period , which should be the maximum duration possible , rather than the standard period in every case .
8 The parasitic phase is non-migratory and the prepatent period in ruminants is 2-3 weeks .
9 And a I would say that actually during the early period in the Army , I think he probably gave as good as he got .
10 S. Sophia is the prototype and representative of the early period in Byzantine art — the sixth century — and S. Mark of the later — the eleventh century .
11 The above results of the General Accident Group for the six months ended 30th June 1993 , estimated and unaudited , are compared with those for the similar period in 1992 , which are restated at 31st December 1992 rates of exchange .
12 The above results of the General Accident Group for the three months ended 31st March 1993 , estimated and unaudited , are compared with those for the similar period in 1992 , which are restated at 31st December 1992 rates of exchange .
13 Economic indicators from the RF State Statistics Committee reported in Ekonomika i zhizn issue 17 , April 1992 , showed that in all sectors the first quarter of 1992 showed a fall in output compared with the similar period in 1991 .
14 THE FOLLOWING PERIOD in the career of Fleetwood Mac must rank as one of the most incredible in modern musical history .
15 In prison he acquired heroic status , but the conditions of Calton gaol began to undermine his health , and he was absent through the crucial period in 1916 when David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) re-established government authority over munitions production , and when the Labour Party was incorporated in the war effort .
16 This danger is well demonstrated by the early efforts made to help culturally disadvantaged children , many of which simply provided each child with a dose of relevant training during the pre-school period in the expectation that this on its own would give him the required extras for normal cognitive development .
17 But in Britain , with its strong governmental impulse as created in the Victorian period in the aftermath of the 1855 Northcote-Trevelyan report , with the British faith in the educated , patrician ‘ expert ’ which kindled the support of American progressives and ‘ genteel reformers ’ in the previous century , the decline of planning and the loss of confidence in the effectiveness of social engineering had a deep cultural impact .
18 Cardiovascular complications in three , respiratory complications in two , and postoperative bleeding in one patient lead to death in six patients during the postoperative period in hospital ( hospital mortality 6% ) .
19 ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said .
20 The consensus politics of the post-1945 period in which so many of our demands were rooted is no more .
21 The fact remains that the finest jades of the archaic period in China were symbolic in character and served no purpose in technology .
22 In the Late Period in certain areas this manifestation of a god in a living animal , one which was sacred to him , was extended dramatically .
23 In the six months to 31 July 1985 the unaudited profit of the group is expected to be £9.2m , an increase of 21 per cent over the corresponding period in the previous year .
24 For the corresponding period in the previous year 818 men had been accommodated , plus 22 women and one child .
25 TI said that business failures notified to it rose by 6.7 per cent between the second and third quarters of 1991 , and were 78 per cent higher than in the corresponding period in 1990 .
26 Taxable profits in the half-year soared to £324.6m compared with £204.7m in the corresponding period in 1991 .
27 Total imports of crude oil in the first 10 months of 1989 were 2,380,000 tonnes less than in the corresponding period in 1988 , but cost $36,970,000 more .
28 Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports .
29 By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 .
30 There had been a significant fall in the number of new arrivals since the October agreement — only seven between January and mid-May 1992 , compared with 3,920 in the corresponding period in 1991 .
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