Example sentences of "[art] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present rate of referral , numbers are more than set to double during the year . |
| 2 | The last type of critic to be distinguished in the present chapter will be the theoretician . |
| 3 | For convenience , biographies will be included in the present chapter , while catalogues will be treated in the next . |
| 4 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 5 | In the present century emphasis on formal qualities in the visual arts have made musical comparisons more frequent , emphasised by the use by artists of musical terminology , as when Kandinsky chose to call his works Improvisations and Compositions . |
| 6 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 7 | Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 8 | The pale Hawksmoor is an inhabitant of the present day who reminds one not only of Dyer but of P. D. James 's character Inspector Dalgliesh — one of her novels , A Taste for Death , published a few months after Hawksmoor , has a church murder in London , draped in the poses of this sensitive , cultivated policeman , and it also has , like Hawksmoor , a suspected tramp . |
| 9 | The same description would not , in my view , be grossly inapplicable to the present ruler of Poland — which has , as it happens , a smaller population than the Ethiopia of chronic famine . |
| 10 | I do n't think this means that there is no saying what he is getting at in these works ; opinions can and will be formed , and for the extent of the present discussion I have been attempting to express one . |
| 11 | This is an author who has contributed to the Russia which has come after him — to the emergence there , at the present time , of the demand for a lawful Opposition , for the duality of democracy . |
| 12 | Later in the present book there is a discussion of Roth 's regard for the literalism of Primo Levi , who is at his most imaginative when least imaginary , who was not all that successful at imagining things in the style commended in the Zuckerman letter : and in The Facts a related meaning is apparent . |
| 13 | Stewart is a traveller , one of the people of the road — among them , tinkers , pipers and folk-singers — in whom an oral culture has survived to the present day . |
| 14 | Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day . |
| 15 | The present situation in 1990 is that would-be members can become provisional members by the following means ; by being offered an engagement by any company or management which operates under the ‘ Quota ’ system by agreement with Equity and the Theatre Managers ' Association . |
| 16 | I think the present Government has a lot to answer for . |
| 17 | Michael , you have done a lot of work both with and for Equity , what do you feel about the present day students ' dilemma ? |
| 18 | Issues of class conflict within the group were to remain largely subordinate , as the matter of the nature and defence of loyalism itself was to dominate the scene right down to the present day . |
| 19 | The Irish people are defined primarily by their allegiance to the present restricted or future enlarged republic , but it is popularly understood that they will normally have the further characteristics of Gaelic Irishness . |
| 20 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 21 | Perhaps one should note the care with which the present leader of the party , John Hume , chooses his words over the future of the North . |
| 22 | To simplify a rather complex historical phenomenon , it can be said that the present political division between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael originates in positions taken by opponents in that war . |
| 23 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 24 | The present constitution in Article 41.3.2 stated : |
| 25 | One might speculate that an impending solution to the Northern Ireland problem would split off from the clerical leadership those groups for whom the present position is only accepted on pragmatic grounds . |
| 26 | The agreement came about through a delicate set of potentially dangerous encounters between the Irish party and the Roman catholic bishops during the first two decades of the present century . |
| 27 | They declared , rightly , that the very power of the clergy in education was being attacked , and , probably wrongly , that the reform of the faults of the present system was only the apparent reason . |
| 28 | The present interrelationship between control of the schools and the two alliances varies in each part of Ireland , though one should also bear in mind the additional underpinning of the alliances both North and South by one of the traditional values of bourgeois capitalism , private and selective schooling . |
| 29 | The present writer , who was not connected with the survey , estimated that there was about a 15 per cent non-Roman catholic element on the estate at the time . |
| 30 | While the arguments of the defenders of catholic schools have a theological basis , those of the promoters of integrated schooling have been founded on what they see to be the results of the present system , namely a violent and destructive society . |