Example sentences of "[prep] [art] early decades [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we examine the trends in population structure in Britain over the last century and the forecasts for the early decades of the next millennium . |
| 2 | Arcadelt 's madrigals coincide with the upswing of interest in the expressive , lyric poetry of Petrarch , which attracted something of a cult following in Rome during the early decades of the 16th century . |
| 3 | Together with the painters Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg , Gerrit Rietveld ( 1888–1964 ) formed the vanguard of the De Stijl group during the early decades of this century . |
| 4 | More generally , almost in a caricature of Dicey 's views , a belief grew during the early decades of the twentieth century that , because of the destruction in the balances in parliamentary mechanisms wrought by the rise of party government , the courts formed the last bastion in the protection of liberties immanent in constitutional arrangements . |
| 5 | As we have seen , during the early decades of this century debate in public law focused on the issues arising from the growth in the legislative and judicial powers of the Executive . |
| 6 | Though the Treaty of Kanghwa had stated Korea to be independent , the concept of a tributary relationship remained significant in thinking in both China and Korea , and during the early decades of the Meiji period China maintained a strong influence in the peninsula , being closely identified with the more conservative element whose dominance was resented by so many Japanese . |
| 7 | It was only during the early decades of the present century that English studies ( or , more simply , " English " ) in its recognizably modern disciplinary form began to offer an educationally significant challenge to the intellectual and cultural prestige long invested in classics . |
| 8 | To them , the new theories smacked of materialism , and during the early decades of the century they were quite successful in blocking the spread of radical ideas . |
| 9 | Sampling techniques were refined throughout the early decades of the twentieth century by Bowley , Hilton , and others . |
| 10 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | These trends look set to continue into the early decades of the next millennium . |
| 12 | British botanists still resisted the natural technique of de Jussieu into the early decades of the new century . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Clements ' philosophy represents a notable extension of nineteenth-century developmental attitudes into the early decades of the new century . |
| 14 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 15 | The foundations of Old Testament kingship were laid by scholars who wrote on the Old Testament , not least the Venerable Bede in the early decades of the eighth century . |
| 16 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 17 | The Eurasian steppes had its own bison , the wisent , which was almost extinct in the early decades of this century but has been rescued by captive breeding , and the small saiga antelope , with its peculiar dust-trap of a nose , in shape like an elephant seal 's . |
| 18 | We can now address ourselves to that much discussed but much misunderstood phenomenon of British.imperial thinking in the early decades of the twentieth century , the glorification of ‘ Indirect Rule ’ and its elevation into an official doctrine of imperial administration . |
| 19 | In the early decades of the nineteenth century the creation of Anglican evangelical networks in the country in the form of clergymen active in parishes , energising lay commitment through a plethora of activities , including antislavery , became noteworthy . |
| 20 | But , like so many young artists in the early decades of the century , Miro could not keep away from Paris . |
| 21 | Kornhauser ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the main tenets of control theory are to be found in the ideas of the pioneers of sociological criminology — the sociologists of the Chicago school , working in the early decades of this century ( Thrasher , 1927 ; Shaw , 1929 ) . |
| 22 | Other furs were attractive as novelties or as luxuries but the beaver trade was steady and reliable until silk hats replaced felted beaver hair in the early decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The meagre returns from tillage stimulated the conversion of arable land to pasture for sheep , which was proceeding actively in the early decades of the century . |
| 24 | From the evidence in city museums , artists among the early settlers brought their European attitudes with them too and , failing the innocent eye test , also failed to interpret the essence of their new found environment , while those who subsequently practised the new styles of modern art in the early decades of this century did so with the same little effect . |
| 25 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |
| 26 | The growth of independent towns in the twelfth century lent force to the revival of public courts on the Carolingian model ; while Mediterranean contacts ensured a warm welcome for the learning of Bolognese Roman lawyers in the early decades of the century . |
| 27 | We will consider in particular its impact on legal thought , primarily through the emergence , in the early decades of this century , of the American legal realist movement . |
| 28 | The difficulties associated with the contractual model of the company led academics in the early decades of this century to adopt instead in their writing the natural-entity conception of the company . |
| 29 | In the early decades of last century gender differences in late life mortality were very small . |
| 30 | Both estimates suggest a significant increase in the numbers of elderly with chronic health problems in the early decades of next century . |