Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possibility extended Paley 's version of the argument from design to include a whole sequence of creations , each adapted to the prevailing conditions of the time . |
| 2 | This may have contributed to the vigour with which he immersed himself in the growing student unrest that was a feature if the political upheavals of the time . |
| 3 | For the dominant , there may be a more flexible perimeter , depending upon the political tactics of the time . |
| 4 | With 104 paintings by seventy artists Olsen has set out to show that nineteenth-century Italian painting , as in the preceding centuries , reflected the political events of the time . |
| 5 | She feels that exhortations are fine but the real purpose of a writer should not be dissolved in the political ideas of the time . |
| 6 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |
| 7 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 8 | I had all the usual notions of the time about the need for chastity . |
| 9 | It is certainly not to be accounted for simply by the clerical abuses of the time . |
| 10 | Haynes may have been apolitical , but his very naivete , and openness to the cultural currents of the time , underlined the difference between the Labour Government 's radicalism and the new popular movements . |
| 11 | AS THE sound of young Scotland dominated every cool kid 's turntable , along came a film that celebrated all the Caledonian virtues of the time ; charm ; laconic , urban wit , youthful experience and wonky enthusiasm . |
| 12 | Approximately half a century later , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons , issued his violent and dogmatic attack on the prevalent heresies of the time , Adversus haereses . |
| 13 | These show a remarkable grasp of the prevalent styles of the time that were adopted by both Italian and English composers , and especially by J C Bach . |
| 14 | But perhaps there is a deeper explanation for acceptance of Chapman 's firm rule , one rooted in the social conditions of the time . |
| 15 | That change of historical focus would allow composers who did not so much ‘ negate ’ , as work through the social conflicts of the time ( such as Verdi , Elgar , Liszt ) to be readmitted to the ‘ progressive ’ ranks . |
| 16 | Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle . |
| 17 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 18 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 19 | There is a splendid account of the struggle to bring literacy to the masses by one of the central figures of the time , now forgotten , Thomas Greenwood . |
| 20 | In 1834 it was described as red like the Devon with a golden nose , long silky hair , prominent eyes , wide forehead , fairly wide muzzle , small dewlap , rather thin forelegs of moderate length and a barrel-shaped body ; the average oxen of the time weighed up to 545kg with some up to 725kg . |
| 21 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 22 | The unique features of the time and place structured the use of discretion . |
| 23 | This was a period of rapid development in the technology and tactics of warfare ; gone were the Frankish troops of the time of Charlemagne , who were expected to be riders , foot soldiers , swordsmen , spearsmen and archers all at once . |
| 24 | She was on friendly terms with most of the leading horticulturalists of the time , and was able to provide Charles Darwin [ q.v. ] with a number of rare plants . |
| 25 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 26 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 27 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 28 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 29 | Boris Hessen 's account of the adoption of Newtonian physics in the seventeenth century as a response to the technological needs of the time can be read as a relativist account with respect to communities , whilst Feyerabend 's assertion that it is the ‘ internal connectedness of all the parts of the ( Copernican ) system together with his belief in the basic nature of circular motion that makes Copernicus pronounce the motion of the earth as real ’ is a remark in keeping with a relativism with respect to individuals . |
| 30 | The Americans were persuaded to allow the ‘ counterpart funds ’ to Marshall Aid to be used for these purposes , and their backing helped Monnet to protect the investment targets from the deflationary policies of the time . |