Example sentences of "of [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 2 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 3 | And they all go to rack ruin beneath the thud of the years . |
| 4 | In the world of youth or pop culture , Britain , without reaching the frenetic heights of the years of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the sixties , remained a market leader , with rock festivals taking place in such unlikely locations as Windsor Great Park and Stonehenge . |
| 5 | But the main institutions which the British had adapted in keeping their nation together — the Crown , Parliament , the forces of law and order , civil and commercial institutions — had all in different ways turned sour with the progressive disillusion of the years after 1945 . |
| 6 | But it was in the air for a second reason also : for one striking feature of the years 1929–31 was that all three parties were deeply divided . |
| 7 | The Labour party 's plans to nationalize British civil aviation were based both on their general policy for the nationalization of industry , and on a desire to avoid the haphazard market of the years before 1939 . |
| 8 | You need have no fear facing the world , ’ as if she were already clearly seeing her happiness and her children in the fullness of the years . |
| 9 | ( 'We who bear the ever-mounting burden of the years do not clearly understand this . |
| 10 | The long efforts of the years are beginning to show results and Catholics have a new self-confidence . |
| 11 | The psychological black hole which is Quisling 's superabundance of gravity is more than counterbalanced by the light thrown on the society which spawned him : a small country struggling in the economic and political tempests of the years between the wars . |
| 12 | Naturally the passing of the years brought a more responsible approach which made him even more formidable , for he still had all the strokes and all the power but now he was less likely to get out unnecessarily . |
| 13 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 14 | Their latest album , Wish ( Fiction/Polydor ) , not only includes a song called Wendy Time , but it also celebrates the durability of Smith 's most precious asset , miraculously unimpaired by the passage of the years : his ability to retain a sense of wonder at each manifestation of the most basic of human emotions . |
| 15 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 16 | The ‘ Chorus of the Years ’ from Part Third , Act 6 was described by Hardy in a letter to Edward Clodd as being the ‘ most original ’ page in the book . |
| 17 | In the course of the years between 1310 and 1410 the spelling ( and no doubt the pronunciation ) had moved from de Foresteresheye ( by way of Fortereshey . |
| 18 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the years shown if the yearly rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 19 | Old people as a group are neither sweet nor cross-grained , but each is the sum of the years that lie behind them . |
| 20 | The passing of the years has done little to improve the situation . |
| 21 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in the course of the years , there were some letters that were painful , and meant for no other eyes ; and no other eyes will see them . |
| 23 | The buildings of the years of expansion reflect the wholesale exploitation of a myriad of individual properties ; only in recent years has the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding been removed as ‘ urban renewal ’ has occurred . |
| 24 | But smaller companies suffered from the recession , and in each of the years 1989 to 1992 their shares substantially under-performed the shares of larger companies . |
| 25 | They are convertible into ordinary at the rate of 102 ordinary for every 100 convertible pref in May of the years 1992 to 2011 . |
| 26 | The taxpayer companies , Delapage Ltd and Twinsectra Ltd , each appealed against assessments in respect of the years to 31 March 1987 and 1988 . |
| 27 | Size will evaporate in the course of the years , and new writing will blur and spread at the edges . |
| 28 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 29 | BELOW Baden , where Constanze Mozart spent much of the years 1789–91 for the sake of her health . |
| 30 | This was the immediately post-war period when , presumably because of the years they had spent in the services and munitions factories , there was a great movement for women to return to purely domestic functions . |