Example sentences of "debate about [art] " in BNC.

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1 So often the debate about a single currency is dominated by misunderstanding and emotion .
2 The plan did , however , contribute to fuelling the debate about a possible common European defence policy outside the structure of NATO itself [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ] , whether within the existing Western European Union ( WEU ) , or by an extension of the sphere of activity of the European Communities ( EC ) .
3 He could start a debate about a church that in order to survive will be radically different from the one we know .
4 Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind .
5 Sir : The ongoing debate about the suggestion by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) that universities must identify the full costs of their undergraduate programmes and should examine various ways in which these costs might be met seems to me to have largely missed the main point at issue .
6 Sir : In the debate about the funding of higher education , it is essential that the purpose of the universities and of the education that they provide should not be neglected .
7 Above all , however , this chapter is intended to begin a debate about the methodological and theoretical influence upon research of ‘ sensitivity ’ , whether deriving from the sensitivity of the topic , its location , or both .
8 In Britain there has developed a learned debate about the impact of party on government .
9 They complained about being ‘ bounced ’ into accepting last-minute decisions , were widely reported in the media , and they forced Mrs Thatcher to agree to a Cabinet debate about the economic strategy .
10 This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism .
11 A full reparations bill has no realistic chance of being enacted , but it promises to re-open a potentially bruising debate about the black experience in the US .
12 Mr Solarz was once involved in a debate about the collection of tolls on the Verrazano bridge that links his district to Staten Island .
13 For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views .
14 Advances in medical knowledge might lead to the conclusion that some are simply too dangerous : there has long been a debate about the status of boxing , with increasing knowledge of the risks of brain damage to boxers .
15 There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis .
16 Despite the evidence in front of our eyes , we are required to accept that Michael is a writer of real stature so that Harwood can conduct a somewhat stodgy debate about the way art feeds off real life , and transforms reality in the process .
17 There is considerable debate about the value of education for its own sake , rather than as a means to an end .
18 It is important that there should be a wide public debate about the future direction the BBC should take .
19 The debate about the missed opportunity has continued ever since .
20 There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ?
21 To a Christian , the word ‘ faith ’ will probably recall the arguments of the Protestant Reformation and the debate about the idea of ‘ justification by faith ’ which has dominated much of Christian history since that time .
22 But it was also clear that the longer the inquiry went on , the more it would coincide with the growing national debate about the government 's proposals to privatize the electricity industry .
23 At the same time such accounts take a position in the traditional debate about the precise connections between that and other concepts .
24 She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus .
25 However , this class may actually enter into economic activities for private gain using , for example , its privileged position to secure credit at favourable rates of interest , obtain monopolies and franchises in import and export businesses , start up industrial enterprises , speculate in urban property and so on ( for a debate about the bureaucracy in lesser developed countries , see Coulson 1975 ; Leys 1975 : 193f . ) .
26 More importantly , however , they have given added urgency to the long-running debate about the future of Britain 's inner cities .
27 To be sure there was still a strong response opposing Enoch Powell 's call for repatriation , from all shades of political opinion , but the racialization of public debate about the 1985 riots went much further than 1980–1 .
28 As pointed out earlier , the ‘ social causes ’ argument was another major plank of public debate about the 1980–1 riots , particularly in relation to the highly politicized issue of unemployment .
29 Much as in 1980–1 , the ‘ social causes ’ argument can not be seen separately from the broader debate about the future of the British economy and society .
30 Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots .
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