Example sentences of "[art] generations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xu 's generation is now categorised as ‘ middle-age ’ — chefs who have gained their qualification through professional training which enhances areas of traditional standards and techniques passed down through the generations . |
| 2 | Since Beaumont 's days , there have been just ten head gardeners down the generations . |
| 3 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 4 | There was much of this , a few small side-bets , and plenty of mixing between the generations . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |
| 6 | Kakoo 's life spanned almost a century and her wonderful memory made everything so vivid for all the generations who knew her . |
| 7 | His other great asset has been his sense of the way minds changed in the generations of the late Sixties and after . |
| 8 | Because modesty in behaviour is such a high priority , these laws of Taharat HaMishpachah have not been publicized , but have been handed down throughout the generations . |
| 9 | The generations could be colour coded to reveal the evolutionary process . |
| 10 | It is a commonplace that children now seem to grow up alarmingly fast , education and the media combining to erode the apparent gap between the generations . |
| 11 | Political prejudices pass down the generations . |
| 12 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 13 | We could see the green patches marking the old shieling sites where the incidental presence of humans and cattle over the generations had permanently fertilised the soil . |
| 14 | His revolutionary ‘ separate condenser ’ led to the generations of steam engines that drove countless trains and ships into an ever-expanding world of trade and industry , a future that Watt 's insight had created out of the slave and horse-power eras of the preceding 2,000 years . |
| 15 | Liberal Democrats know that we have a duty , not only to each other but to the generations which follow us , to protect the environment . |
| 16 | Dawkins ( 1976 , 1978 ) has argued strongly that considering the individual animal as the unit of selection is a form of shorthand for what is actually selected down the generations is the gene , or over short time spans , groups of associated genes . |
| 17 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 18 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 19 | Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations . |
| 20 | As land is passed on over the generations , it gradually ceases to be a viable unit . |
| 21 | The anthropologists saw the rural smallholder as the bearer of tradition and wedded to the same way of life as the generations before him . |
| 22 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 23 | It is most intrinsically valuable as an indication of the quality of relationships between the generations , and we have primarily interpreted it in that way . |
| 24 | The farmers ' descendants , moving over the generations into commerce and trade , stuck to the old peasant form of succession , if the picture given by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall of Family Fortunes in early nineteenth-century Birmingham and East Anglia is representative . |
| 25 | The second is the smaller group of interviews with 55 grandparents carried out specifically for this book , and intentionally focused on ageing through the generations . |
| 26 | Another basis on which close relationships commonly developed was a pattern of visiting which included the exchange of help and caring between the generations . |
| 27 | We are able to trace the patterns of practical aid and its mutuality between the generations , and in an especially full way , of house-sharing . |
| 28 | This thirty-seventh year of my marriage is the happiest yet , and hopefully the festivities will echo in some way through the generations to follow us . |
| 29 | On the one hand we have the beguiling image of independent DNA replicators , skipping like chamois , free and untrammelled down the generations , temporarily brought together in throwaway survival machines , immortal coils shuffling off an endless succession of mortal ones as they forge towards their separate eternities . |
| 30 | Genes for failure to resist enslavement by cuckoos can easily be passed down the generations of robins or dunnocks . |