Example sentences of "[art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is possible to have a covenant which lasts for a longer period , provided that the period is specified in the Deed . |
| 2 | During the period of 1984–5 , more than 2,800 Sri Lankans sought asylum in the UK and in May 1985 , a visa requirement was imposed on the nationals of Sri Lanka , the first time such a requirement was imposed on the nationals of a Commonwealth country . |
| 3 | Jacob Burckhardt sensibly avoids pedantry about a starting date , but stresses the revival of antiquity as a main characteristic of the period . |
| 4 | Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic . |
| 5 | He spent the rest of his life in expertise , painstakingly cataloguing the pictures and drawings of his favoured period , the Italian Renaissance , and in giving advice , notably to the great Bostonian collector , Mrs Gardner , and the main dealer of the period , Joseph Duveen . |
| 6 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 7 | ( Elsewhere , another angry gentleman of the period , Evelyn Waugh , had waited for his children to be of an age to converse with him , before taking an interest . ) |
| 8 | Depending on the school , a full term 's work of ten to twelve weeks may be spent on one production project during the first term , with either a workshop or text study area at the end of the period . |
| 9 | For his part , de Valera , prime minister for most of the period from 1932 to 1959 , pursued isolationist policies , economically , politically , and culturally , seeking at once self-sufficiency , neutrality , the restoration in part of Gaelic culture through the minimal enforcement of the Irish language , and the control of media consumption . |
| 10 | The Northern minority has been feared throughout the period by protestant loyalists for two main reasons . |
| 11 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 12 | During the period of the Stormont parliament , half the seats were uncontested . |
| 13 | What socialism there has been among the catholic — nationalist tradition has always tended to be allied to republicanism , especially in the period 1913 to 1930 ( Rumpf and Hepburn 1977 : 13 ) . |
| 14 | But this will not be the main focus of attention here ; to make the general point requires tracing only the impact of the specific church teaching of the period on constitutional law and its implementation in Ireland . |
| 15 | The purpose of detailing the relationship between the Irish constitution and the papal teaching of the period has not been to ridicule seemingly outdated church — state dispositions . |
| 16 | From the point of view of the issue of law , there can be no doubt as to the influence both of the constitution of 1937 in the period following its enactment and of the influence of Roman catholic teaching on legislation prior to that date . |
| 17 | During the period 1947–51 , an inordinate delay on the part of the government was experienced in bringing forward the requisite bill legalizing adoption , despite considerable pressure from prospective adoptive parents and adoption agencies . |
| 18 | The shifting consensus of church and state was not the major feature of the period . |
| 19 | The period of separation in undefended cases was two years , and five years had to run if one of the parties opposed the divorce . |
| 20 | As a result of the constant remodelling of premises through the period , most of the Victorian pub interiors which survive are late 19th century in date , and most attempts to create ‘ Victorian ’ interiors concentrate on the grander survivals ; this , combined with the common inability to create a sympathetic design , has led to a stereotype of the Victorian pub which is inaccurate . |
| 21 | The niceties of these social distinctions were not lost on the pub designer of the period , as they boosted pub taking by enabling such a wide range of people to be served in the same building . |
| 22 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 23 | It was during the period of 1943–1945 that his political awakening took place . |
| 24 | During the period 1955 to 1978 I moved across classificatory police boundaries on more than one occasion . |
| 25 | Begin with a light regime and then gradually increase the work-load as the acute phase ( the period when the injury is most painful but the effects have not yet manifested themselves ) comes to an end . |
| 26 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 27 | When Mr Cohen was well , they lived the life of any well-to-do family of the time , in the Edwardian style of the period . |
| 28 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 29 | The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly . |
| 30 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |