Example sentences of "late as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 2 | As late as the Roman period we find a man with the splendid name Marcus Antonius Bagoas ( Keil and Premerstein , Zweite Reise in Lydien no. 10 ; this man must have got the Roman citizenship from Mark Antony , but Bagoas is a Persian name ) . |
| 3 | Armistice Day is still only celebrated in Southern Ireland by protestants : as late as the early 1970s , you could still tell a protestant by his poppy on 11 November . |
| 4 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 5 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 6 | There was a great debate as late as the early 1980s over whether it would be more appropriate to continue the policy set by Sir Philip Hendy of keeping the look of the gallery neutral as opposed to polychrome — the ‘ porridge versus polychrome ’ battle . |
| 7 | As late as the early nineteenth century , for example , formal education still consisted largely of study of the Chinese Confucian classics , which served also as the vehicle for achieving literacy . |
| 8 | Newcastle 's success is less easy to explain , for as late as the early sixteenth century its main export commodity was wool , although by the reign of Henry VIII it seems to have expanded its trade in coal , iron and lead ( 59 ; 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 9 | Even as late as the Elizabethan theatre , where we find an owner or lessee in contractual or hiring relations with a company or with individuals , the processes of internal control of the production are obscure . |
| 10 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 11 | As late as the inter-war years , one young girl felt ‘ cut in half ’ on leaving her Gloucestershire village at fourteen . |