Example sentences of "[art] newly discovered " in BNC.

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1 The Virgin has always been more popular than Christ in the New World ; indeed in the sixteenth century certain churchmen had argued that while the East was the domain of Christ , the newly discovered West was that of his mother .
2 It was a monument to the newly discovered Parkinson 's Law .
3 Amis observes that many of the newly discovered poets in the anthology are not masters of form , but must be read for their ‘ realism ’ , that is , for content :
4 Only a year after the invention of balloons , a book was written describing a voyage , by balloon , to the newly discovered planet Uranus .
5 At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum .
6 In 1801 he became famous in the eyes of the general public by locating the exact position of the newly discovered ( and subsequently lost ! ) planet Ceres , this from very little information and where the best astronomers had failed .
7 While his thoughts were on Venus the landscape was rubbed away like chalk from a blackboard and he has lost the means of identifying the newly discovered stars …
8 The second stage was the construction of a fort ( ostrog ) in the centre of the newly discovered territory .
9 The rival anatomists debated the implications of transitional forms such as the newly discovered platypus and the degree to which the structure of the human body indicated a link to the apes .
10 Although the reports of this and the other expeditions provided new information on the distribution of life in the sea , much of the space was devoted to the minute description of the newly discovered species , i.e. to pure morphology .
11 The newly discovered site
12 By 1618–19 output had improved sufficiently , it seems , to warrant the building of a water-powered stamp-mill at a site believed to be at the foot of Red Dell or Thriddle and which , despite its altitude , was well placed to serve the mines about there which would now include the newly discovered God 's Blessing at the head of the dell and which like its namesake ( almost ) in Newlands Valley near Keswick , was highly esteemed but mistakenly so .
13 By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human .
14 From the very start of " the expansion of Europe " the invaders tended to treat all the newly discovered peoples of Southern Africa and the Americas as less than fully human , a convenient doctrine which implied that they were legitimate objects for enslavement , exploitation and extermination .
15 During the seventeenth century and for long afterwards philosopher-humanists of Montaigne 's colour remained a small minority ; Shakespeare 's Caliban , beast rather than human being , was the common man s stereotype of the newly discovered savages of Africa , America and the South Seas .
16 Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography .
17 In ‘ The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman ’ Freud announces a newly discovered ‘ cause ’ of homosexuality , what he calls ‘ retiring in favour of someone else ’ .
18 Shortly before it was due to be changed , American astronauts decided to call a newly discovered planet Kirov Ballet .
19 The consultant returned to Hong Kong in late 1990 to undertake a three-month study of a newly discovered area of buried cavitous marble at Ma On Shan in the central New Territories .
20 Of the Italian drawings , a newly discovered Perino del Vaga pen and wash study of ‘ Psyche borne on a litter to her marriage festivities ’ , a study for a fresco at the Castel Sant' Angelo , Rome , sold for $34,000 ( £21,250 ; est. $20,000–25,000 ) ; a rare Guercino oiled charcoal academie of a male nude was sold under estimate for $100,000 ( £62,500 ; est. $120,000–150,000 ) ; and the badly-faded Domenico Tiepolo ‘ Scene of Execution ’ made a remarkable $72,500 ( £45,300 ; est. $40,000–60,000 ) .
21 It is a newly discovered ( or perhaps re-discovered ) complex , natural language , linked to a cognitive representation which carries all the information of a society with limited sound .
22 Libation began in a vast library-living room , often the bottle a newly discovered chateau or domaine , gleefully introduced with the latest ripe tale .
23 Imagine a newly discovered plant , whose leaves when dried and smoked cause a temporary loss of memory ; imagine , too , that it is highly addictive …
24 A newly discovered work by one of the minor Pre-Raphaelites ? ’ said Robina .
25 On March 8 it was reported that a newly discovered oil and gas field in the Fergana valley would provide Uzbekistan with up to 12,000,000 tonnes of oil per year — well above its domestic needs .
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