Example sentences of "and in [art] past " in BNC.

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1 Whatever the image of Brent , now and in the past , I would applaud it , in my time there , for honestly addressing issues of selection policy that most other authorities were too faint-hearted to address [ the ad hominem attack is typical ] .
2 It seemed a strange assumption because Allison was known chiefly as a Fairlight programming expert and in the past had worked mainly with mainstream artistes like Elkie Brookes .
3 I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk .
4 Ivy , who did not much care for books about ‘ Abroad ’ — though if you sent her one she would say politely that it would be ‘ a companion ’ — was pleased to have a novel set in England and in the past .
5 To control them is to control the way government policy is implemented , and in the past they were the means by which Scotland adapted Westminster 's diktats to suit Scotland 's needs .
6 ‘ They run up and down the organisation carrying messages and information and in the past we 've had lots of them because it was the only way of passing information .
7 She has accused the Catholic Church of condoning child abuse , and in the past has even expressed sympathy for the IRA .
8 I have two marine tanks and in the past I have experienced problems with dead spots in my undergravel filtration due to the amount of tufa rock used for decor .
9 He is interested both in the future — how political changes might be brought about through information that stretches potential consciousness and causes a group to transform — and in the past .
10 And in the past they have put up dramatic posters warning the public : ‘ Danger — Radioactive . ’
11 Although PAS is a commercial business , Bill and Kath both have a soft spot for museums and collectors alike , and in the past have supplied , at reasonable prices , parts to large museums like the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , and to ‘ one man collections ’ who may want just a small item to complete a cockpit panel etc .
12 Yet 8% ( the lowest long-term yield for 20 years ) is what the market now demands — and in the past it has been more correct than governments about future inflation .
13 These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus .
14 The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs .
15 We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant .
16 As on so many issues both now and in the past , the pre-war women 's movement was neither homogeneous nor united .
17 It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid .
18 These powers are not fully comprehensive , and in the past the police could not , for example , obtain a warrant to search for a murder weapon or evidence of kidnapping .
19 Patronage by the Church has been part of the musical world for centuries , and in the past many of the greatest composers have depended upon it for their livelihood .
20 Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins .
21 The voice is a flexible instrument , and in the past a singer was expected to decorate the music suitably and with taste , varying from the occasional grace-note or appoggiatura to effects of coloratura virtuosity .
22 This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total .
23 And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this .
24 George O K I 've said that he represents America in the Cold War , merely because of his name , but there 's actually more to it than that because he erm , he believes in history and in the past and his values are very old fashioned .
25 I mean , on the whole and in the past I think that has been true , but the proportion of mature students , that 's undergraduates over the age of twenty-five has erm has doubled in the last erm ten years .
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