Example sentences of "of [art] past [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though reactionary voices were raised in opposition to this , both in Parliament and by some campaigners , ( particularly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , who wished to reverse the policy on the basis of the misguided notion that this would remove the problem of homeless , drifting , mentally disordered people ) , the disasters of the past thirty years of unplanned discharge can not be reversed by bolting the stable door now . |
| 2 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 3 | The broadcast sought to contrast the record of the past 13 years of Tory rule with Labour 's Winter of Discontent in 1978–79 . |
| 4 | He launched a strong defence of the achievements of the past 13 years of Conservative rule and warned voters not to ‘ fall in Labour 's trap ’ and ‘ sleepwalk ’ into the election . |
| 5 | The fatal defect in the punctuational hypothesis is the failure to consider all the evidence of the past two decades from studies of molecular evolution . |
| 6 | The history of the past two centuries in Britain demonstrates very clearly that both ‘ need ’ and ‘ capacity ’ are socially constructed . |
| 7 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 8 | The artist and author , Alfonso Santoni , traces the history of the past 500 years from the point of view of the indigenous and black populations of Latin America . |
| 9 | The artist and author , Alfonso Santoni , traces the history of the past 500 years from the point of view of the indigenous and black populations of Latin America . |
| 10 | This year 's Republican Party primary elections mark the first time that the controversies of the past three years over the National Endowment for the Arts , the federal agency charged with arts support , have entered the realm of American presidential politics . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been spent on motorway and major trunk road construction in each of the past three years at constant prices . |
| 12 | It is necessary to cut through the confusion and to attack the mess of local government finance which is the legacy of the past few years of Conservative rule . |
| 13 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
| 14 | This interest has now received a further stimulus from the events of the past few years in Europe . |
| 15 | Alison escaped with only aches and pains from an accident which could easily have claimed her life … now she hopes she can put all the anxiety of the past few months behind her . |
| 16 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 17 | The drama of the past few days in Kabul has highlighted the two central problems of modern Afghanistan : one is the difficulty of finding a balance between the dominant Pathans and the array of other ethnic groups , Tajiks , Uzbeks , Hazaras and others who occupy the northern and western parts of the country ; the other is the tension between modernising élites in Kabul and the largely tribal rural population . |
| 18 | The history of the past 30 years in brewing has been dominated by the emergence of a handful of giant national companies — Bass , Allied , Whitbread , GrandMet/Watney , Courage , and Scottish & Newcastle — driven by a need to maximise profit rather than concentrating on high quality products that also generate a good return . |
| 19 | The backbone of his campaign was a plea to reject the economic policies of the past 12 years of Republican administrations , which he derisively labelled ‘ trickle-down economics ’ in which tax breaks are given to the wealthy in the hope that the benefits will ‘ trickle down ’ to lower-income groups . |