Example sentences of "for the arts " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more political theme for an article is the issue of subsidies for the arts . |
| 2 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 3 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |
| 4 | The information , collected for the Arts Council by the British Market Research Bureau , shows that in an average period of four weeks during 1988-89 , 6 per cent of the adult population went to the theatre , 4 per cent to an art gallery , 2 per cent to classical music and 1 per cent to jazz . |
| 5 | The regional arts associations want to see more decentralisation , but Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , said that when Mr Wilding undertook his inquiry at the start of the year he was unhappy about the accountability of some regional arts associations . |
| 6 | Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ . |
| 7 | Second , such support as there is , via the National Endowment for the Arts ( currently it is funded at $130m , which to the federal government is peanuts ) , is the more visible for being infinitesimal and therefore vulnerable . |
| 8 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for the Arts Council said that Kent Opera 's three-year plan had been rejected by a group including Mr Peter Palumbo , the council 's chairman , Mr Rittner , and Mr Ken Baird , the council 's music director , before the music panel met . |
| 10 | A dedicated polymath , with a passion for the arts , Neubauer was an expert on the English visionary artists , particularly the engravings of Turner . |
| 11 | That tempestuous lady once came here in her capacity as Greek Minister for the Arts . |
| 12 | It will ban tobacco advertising and invent a Ministry for the Arts and Media , and a Ministry for Women . |
| 13 | Neither the Labour spokesman , Mark Fisher , whose father used to be a Tory MP and a friend , or the Tory spokesman , Tim Renton , another friend , are against state subsidies for the arts , as I am . |
| 14 | The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ? |
| 15 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 16 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
| 17 | The National Lottery will provide a new source of finance for the arts . |
| 18 | We will maintain support for the arts and continue to develop schemes for greater sponsorship in co-operation with business and private individuals . |
| 19 | We will enhance practical arts teaching and library provision in schools and extend the provision of adult education for the arts and crafts . |
| 20 | Labour 's Ministry for the Arts and Media will encourage Britain 's arts and their associated industries , including broadcasting and the press , to develop new ideas and attract more people . |
| 21 | By the time that the Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts were producing their two excellent booklets on the reuse of railroad stations in 1974 and 1975 , only one per cent of all inter-city travel was by train . |
| 22 | None the less , the Barclay offer had been instrumental in saving the statue for the nation at least for the time being and , soon after , the Minister for the Arts announced that an export licence had been refused . |
| 23 | In the north of Spain , on the other hand , there was a dearth of learning and an almost total disregard for the arts — except where Moorish influence was most strongly felt . |
| 24 | For example , in the 1985 Green Paper on the future of the universities ( altogether a somewhat hasty and ill-expressed document ) it was suggested that more money should be given to universities , and more places offered to students , for sciences than for the arts , and this policy is now being implemented , with considerable effect on the schools . |
| 25 | But the impossibility of drawing this distinction may be bad for the arts . |
| 26 | Encore for the Arts |
| 27 | ‘ Encore for the Arts . ’ |
| 28 | Encore for the Arts ! |
| 29 | Yet I felt his Coppelia was , in the end essentially ersatz — still , Encore for the Arts ! |
| 30 | ENCORE FOR THE ARTS ! |