Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A neat museum houses military uniforms of the Johnsonian period alongside a park as tailored as Scottish prudence . |
| 2 | More strikingly , Sir Geoffrey Howe , a stalwart of the heroic period of Thatcherism in the early 1980s , when she as Prime Minister and he as Chancellor of the Exchequer defied almost the entire economic establishment , has started to lay greater stress on the Government 's role in industry . |
| 3 | Proletarian power now superseded the unfinished business of the bourgeois period of history . |
| 4 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 5 | This marked the beginning of the major period of canal building in England . |
| 6 | Detailed analysis of the early period of social-democratic activity , during the late 1880s and early 90s , has found that ‘ the relationship between worker and intelligentsia leaders was characterized for the most part by trust , co-operation and mutual respect . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was 31 January 1988 , Super Bowl Sunday , the last day of the holding period for the Eddie Aikau . |
| 9 | If J. A. Hobson was justified in speaking of a ‘ crisis of Liberalism ’ in 1909 , it is equally if not more justified to think of the Edwardian period in terms of a ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ . |
| 10 | Experimental infections have shown that in young pigs the important effect of alimentary ascariasis is economic , with poor feed conversion and slower weight gains , leading to an extension of the fattening period by 6-8 weeks . |
| 11 | At the outbreak of war , membership was 34,209 , in 1918 it was 44,068 ; soon after the formation of the London Cooperative Society ( LCS ) in 1920 by amalgamation with Edmonton there were 100,020 members , and at the end of the interior period after further amalgamations , notably with the West London Society , there were 794,637 . |
| 12 | This is the first full study of the greatest period in the city 's history , which produced such painters as Melozzo and Palmezzano . |
| 13 | The emphasis is on alpine works of the late-Gothic period from about 1340 to 1540 , with the schools of Ulm and Augsburg dominating . |
| 14 | I spent most of the intervening period in the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 15 | Mice normally mate during the middle of the dark period of the diurnal cycle . |
| 16 | The coronation of Bel Shanaar marks the end of the war with Chaos and the start of the great period of rebuilding that sees the rise of Tiranoc to pre-eminence among the Elf realms . |
| 17 | Since the balance of payments has become a structural problem because of the prolonged period of under-investment , imports have grown as a share of UK domestic spending , making the growth of inflation resulting from devaluation more rapid . |
| 18 | Taskopruzade does not mention any successor to Tursun Fakih , nor does he seem to describe the activities of any other scholar of the relevant period in such a way as to suggest that he held the office of Mufti . |
| 19 | She was worshipped , in the later part of the Minoan period at least , on the mainland as well , so perhaps cult practices and deities were among the Minoans ' exports . |
| 20 | A partnership will end with the passing of the fixed period of time set out in the Partnership Deed ( s. 32(a) Partnership Act 1890 ) . |
| 21 | They mark also the final phase of the first period in Cubist painting . |
| 22 | The consensus politics of the post-1945 period in which so many of our demands were rooted is no more . |
| 23 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 24 | This differs from most earlier kouroi in having arms and hands carved free of the sides , but the sculptor has cautiously supported them by struts from hip to wrist : an extremely rare feature in Greek work but regular in marble copies of the Roman period after Greek bronzes ; and bronze becomes the favourite medium for freestanding sculpture in the period we are entering . |
| 25 | Vitruvius provides a clear description of an example of the late period from which it seems that the temples contained three cells placed side by side and dedicated to three different deities . |
| 26 | The dating evidence of the final period of the temple at Brean Down ( Somerset ) presented its excavator A. M. ApSimon with problems , since there was what is described as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
| 27 | If history is potentially unreliable and incomplete , what of the prehistoric period for which we have no written records at all ? |
| 28 | The ‘ Jack Aubrey ’ sequence — broad and bold in humour , sophisticated in narrative techniques , sardonic in tone , politically alert — is designed for adult readers with somewhat different expectations from those who , during the thirty years between 1937 and 1967 and afterwards , followed the fortunes of C. S. Forester 's Horatio Hornblower in a series of novels describing in an inconsecutive but neatly planned order his career in the navy of the Napoleonic period from midshipman to admiral . |
| 29 | The fact remains that the finest jades of the archaic period in China were symbolic in character and served no purpose in technology . |
| 30 | An examination in Professional Practice ( RIBA Part 3 ) , set jointly through the Association of Scottish Schools of Architecture , is taken at the completion of the second period of practical training , and successful candidates are eligible to register with the Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom , and become full members of the RIBA and/or the RIAS . |