Example sentences of "at [art] turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |
| 2 | It is the increasing burden of excise duty , however , that has reduced the strength of mild : at the turn of the century the average gravity of mild ale in Britain was 1050 degrees , the strength of a powerful modern bitter . |
| 3 | In the true tradition of the pub boom at the turn of the century , although decidedly grand , most of these refurbishments do not take themselves deadly seriously . |
| 4 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 5 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 6 | MANCHESTER CORNERHOUSE Posada : Messenger of Mortality — Jose Guadalupe Posada ( 1852-1913 ) , one of the most popular illustrators in Mexico City at the turn of the century . |
| 7 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 8 | A little apprehensive at the turn just past the Saulnier farm , the spot referred to by the Brigadier that was within earshot of the enemy . |
| 9 | At the turn of the century industrial production in Belorussia had been half that of the average for Russia as a whole . |
| 10 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 11 | Horden and Easington best by night and Blackhall worth a try at the turn of the tide . |
| 12 | This sentence , by the Brazilian film-maker Glauber Rocha , written at the turn of the 1970s , clearly identifies a form of expression with a mass of oppressed people whose experience has been continuous over at least four centuries . |
| 13 | At the turn of the century , most car parts were built individually and items such as pistons and con-rods were fitted together with files and emery cloth . |
| 14 | Or there 's Thornton 's Arcade ( above ) , one of several glass-roofed malls built by Edwardian theatre designer Frank Matcham at the turn of the century |
| 15 | At the turn of the century there were chimpanzees in 25 African states . |
| 16 | ‘ At the turn of the year we shall cover every all-weather fixture at Lingfield and Southwell in addition to the usual turf fixtures . |
| 17 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 18 | He found a scene effectively unchanged since the rubber-seekers first arrived there at the turn of the century . |
| 19 | Henderson is genuinely optimisitc about his triple Champion Hurdler , See You Then , who will be ten at the turn of the year , making a comeback next month . |
| 20 | The Manor House itself dates from the 13th. century but it has now been restored to portray how this ancient building was the centre of a thriving farm at the turn of the century . |
| 21 | The Korean armistice was signed in July 1953 ; the first Soviet hydrogen bomb was tested in August ; the RAF received its first British atomic bombs into service with the V Force in November ; and at the turn of the year , Foster Dulles announced the United States ' twin policies of ‘ massive nuclear retaliation and the containment of the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 22 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 23 | At the turn of the year the Fed further nudged down interest rates to encourage the banks ' customers to borrow more . |
| 24 | The children now embarking on the national curriculum will still be in school at the turn of the century . |
| 25 | It was Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss who had the insight and courage to start , at the turn of the century , the long process of discovery and purification which is leading to a redefinition of Mozart . |
| 26 | There is good evidence that a flourishing trade in false antiquities existed at the turn of the century , and its products filtered through to the United States and Europe . |
| 27 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 28 | Smallfry often spoke of Old Ashfield as a huge and stylish mansion built by a millionaire mill-owner at the turn of the century . |
| 29 | The head gardener at Chilton at the turn of the century , Charles Beckett , had a brother , Edwin , also a head gardener , and both men built exactly the same design of fruit house in their respective gardens . |
| 30 | Nevertheless they were considerably more evangelical at the turn of the century than they are now . |