Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 2 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 3 | The comparative performance of the French economy may be judged more or less favourably , depending on the criteria and the time-frame used , but over the decade of the 1960s as a whole it grew at an annual rate that matched or surpassed the record of most of France 's main trading partners . |
| 4 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
| 5 | The service was revived at the beginning of the 1960s by the injection of government funding and was stimulated by honourable mention from two major inquiries . |
| 6 | While the urban areas inhabited by the underclass have seen outbreaks of violence , notably the widespread riots in the second half of the 1960s in the US , with the recent echo in Los Angeles last week , the more surprising thing , nonetheless , is their relative tranquillity . |
| 7 | Other popular movements of protest and reform have often been met by violence — for example , the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the US , and on a larger scale the diverse movements in Eastern Europe , as well as in many parts of the Third World , which have been suppressed by military force . |
| 8 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's growing interest in structuralist linguistics is evident in her novels of the 1960s in the use of creative juxtaposition and other devices which depend for their effect on the relations between elements rather than on the elements ‘ as such ’ . |
| 9 | The mercenary wars of the 1960s in the Congo and Near East were over . |
| 10 | If he was a nonentity , one of the lowest of the low , then he wanted his work to reveal what it was like to be such an unfortunate . |
| 11 | In respect of registered land , a transferee will not be concerned with the amount of stamp duty imposed on documents prior to the transfer to him ; the registrar is under a duty to check the sufficiency of the stamping on a document affecting registered land ( Stamp Act 1891 , s17 ) , so that an instrument can not be registered at HM Land Registry unless correctly stamped . |
| 12 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 13 | Its distance is about 15000 light-years , so that it is one of the closest of the globulars . |
| 14 | Close relations were also maintained with Syria ( which concluded a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1980 ) , and with India , which signed a friendship treaty as early as 1971 and which remained one of the closest of the USSR 's non-communist allies under Indira Gandhi and her successor Rajiv . |
| 15 | Much of the attack on the slave trade from as early as the end of the 1780s to the debates of 1806 could equally have been , and was , an attack on slavery . |
| 16 | Taylor seemed surprised at being accused of denying the validity of the Ninth of the Church of England 's Articles , that on ‘ Original or Birth-Sin ’ . |
| 17 | Yet the right to dominate , the unquestioned superiority of the bourgeois as a species , implied not only inferiority but ideally an accepted , willing inferiority , as in the relation between man and woman ( which once again symbolises much about the bourgeois world view ) . |
| 18 | And he 'll put one of the Six in the prison . |
| 19 | This difference is the coming of the political into the adult deaf world . |
| 20 | While not objecting to centralized planning , proletarian dictatorship or the primacy of the Bolshevik Party , Trotsky strongly opposed the supplanting of the political by the bureaucratic-administrative , a process in which functionaries seek to solve all problems by purely administrative means ( Krygier 1978 ) . |
| 21 | These two developments were fused in the actions of the Non-Aligned as a group and Vietnam separately towards a settlement of the tensions and hostilities in Indo-China . |
| 22 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 23 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 24 | The tiger population may number some 500 or more , the largest surviving single population of the 7-8,000 in the world , and the only one which conforms to scientific calculations of the number required to retain the broad genetic base for natural evolution . |
| 25 | The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow-up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . |
| 26 | The railway , built by Kitchener in 1897 as part of the reconquest of the Sudan , takes the shorter route and cuts across the desert . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a celebration of the best of a woman when a designer makes a great dress , and it takes a certain intelligence to carry it off . |
| 28 | Some of the best of the comrades had been horrified by the indiscretion of Lenin in resorting to the aid of the Germans and making the trip through an enemy country . |
| 29 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 30 | She neither bowed nor smiled and the words were grave but her eyes , he thought , seemed to gather all that was left of the best of the sun . |