Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilt holding may be expected to increase again with the rising public deficits of the early 1990s and the reductions in corporate profits and equity dividend payments in a time of recession . |
| 2 | We do not need to look far back to find the origins of the crisis — the oil crisis of the early 1970s and the proliferation of large loans at low interest rates to third world countries . |
| 3 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 4 | NT has a slight edge over the average Unix on-line documentation but falls short of the best available and the introduction of the CD-ROM is a hurdle for the desktop crowd . |
| 5 | Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand . |
| 6 | By this time Regina Union ( 1911 ) , Brandon ( 1911 ) , and Winnipeg ( both CPR and the Union station of the Canadian Northern and the GTP ( 1911 ) ) were all built in the style . |
| 7 | The vast majority of the estimated two and a half million employees covered by the Wage Council work in the retail hot retail , hotel and catering , and textile industries . |
| 8 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 9 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 10 | The demonstrators demanded Kenjayev 's resignation , the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet and the freeing of Dushanbe 's mayor , Maksud Ikramov , who had been arrested in March [ see p. 38811 ] . |
| 11 | It could also draw in apolitical idealists alienated by both the extremism of the far left and the abrasiveness of the Thatcherites . |
| 12 | Although gold was also sought for bullion and diamonds for industrial use , the expansion of the market for jewellery was one of the strongest impulses behind the booms in prospection and mining of the latter nineteenth and the twentieth centuries . |
| 13 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
| 14 | The rise of monetarist economics was occasioned by the accelerating inflation of the late 1960s and the 1970s . |
| 15 | The deep economic depression , particularly of the late 1920s and the early 1930s , may well have discouraged the continued raising of large families and encouraged the greater use of birth-control techniques . |
| 16 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 17 | The Soviet Union had remained a Utopian ideal to the Left even during the vicissitudes of the late 1920s and the collectivization and famine during the First Five Year Plan . |
| 18 | It is clear that the issues of animal welfare and the environment are the issues of the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries and that increasing knowledge and the application of appropriate methods together with the involvement of all the people will improve the plight of our beleaguered natural world . |
| 19 | All that strange ‘ beat ’ talk of the late fifties and the avant-garde personality of the earlier Sixties that had become the language of kids in the coffee bars and campuses throughout the English-speaking world , was giving way to a more cynical view of life and the much harsher realities of the rock ‘ n ’ roll years . |
| 20 | Adorno sees the prevalence of conventions and repetitive norms in twentieth-century popular music against the background of a musical tradition — European bourgeois art music of the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries — which evolved in a strongly non -schematic direction . |
| 21 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 22 | With the rise of fascism came a change in the tactics of the Communist International and the French communist party . |
| 23 | Certainly neither Attlee nor Bevin took account of those in the Labour party who suggested that Britain could or should pursue a " socialist " foreign policy , nor did they accept the claims of the Labour left that the United States was more aggressive than the USSR . |
| 24 | ‘ the political obstacles to advance within the practices of the Labour Left and the labour movement itself ; … broadening the base of mass support , creating institutions and organisations which extend the socialist movement beyond the minority of organised labour ; … fighting for specific reforms in the organisation of capital that will create new positions of struggle and control for working people ( limitations of shareholders ’ and managements ' powers , workers ' representation etc. ) and fighting for reforms in non-commodity areas such as health , education , and welfare that introduce elements of popular administration and control ’ ( Cutler et al . , |
| 25 | Six wide archways opened on to the sea , affording all diners uninterrupted views of the shimmering Caribbean and the powder beach below . |
| 26 | I think it is convenient , and not too misleading , to conceive of research outside the classroom , both of the soft speculative and the hard empirical varieties , as resulting in kinds of stereotypes . |
| 27 | Purity demands for legislation against prostitution , brothel-keeping and other acts of immorality often explicitly addressed problems posed by the culture of the urban poor and the difficulties of keeping public order on the streets . |
| 28 | The nineteenth-century notion of the undeserving poor and the deserving poor has been reconstituted — the former are effectively stigmatised , the latter become the focus of qualified liberal sentiment — the target group for crumbs of philanthropic consideration . |
| 29 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 30 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |