Example sentences of "in [art] winter " in BNC.

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1 If you do want to portray an older figure , it would be preferable to try Hermione in The Winter 's Tale — she is a more fantastical character , without the added complications of historical authenticity , and so allows for greater flexibility of characterisation .
2 They are often sold in the winter months from small casks kept on bar counters .
3 Re-pot arum lilies intended to flower in the winter .
4 They must lie up in the caves , if we do send refugees here , and in the pinewoods and the tall juniper — they will do even in the winter .
5 Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative .
6 In the winter I visit Mummy in Norwich instead .
7 One of reasons for the survival of the S&C into the 1980s had been its ability to handle diverted WCML trains ; this continued despite withdrawal of Intercity services in the winter 1982–3 timetable .
8 By European standards the beers are extremely bitter , rating 40 EBUs ( European Bitterness Units ) for traditional bitter , 36 for Sovereign , 45 for Best Bitter and 60 for a Porter Bob brews in the winter months .
9 The most recent glass development is the growing use of solar control and low-emissivity glass , which helps to retain heat in the winter and to prevent unnecessary solar gain in summer .
10 But one health authority finance officer said it looked ‘ inconceivable ’ that the budget could be balanced without service cuts , in the winter or next year , unless extra cash was provided or health ministers allowed the deficit to be carried forward .
11 Events ( below ) in the Winter Gardens , unless otherwise stated .
12 ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along .
13 ‘ When some of these smart Alecs in 1974 put up a venomous plaque to my brother in Soho , outside the Plough tavern in Museum Street , I went over there , in the winter , and tore it down .
14 It is a performance of real moral authority , lightly worn , and richly earns her the right to be the character who , like Paulina in The Winter 's Tale , stage-manages the resurrection of the heroine — here literally pregnant with the future .
15 Thus , we are the only definable group in the Winter Gardens today who are actually looking forward to Nigel 's speech .
16 As the Tory faithful trumpeted their green credibility in the Winter Gardens , Ann Taylor , the Labour environment spokeswoman , was on Blackpool beach amusing photographers and terrifying holidaymakers by paddling in the shallows in a white laboratory coat and protective wellingtons .
17 The Labour Party 's lead in the polls and the doubts which the Conservatives themselves can not help feeling about the state of the economy , both made the audience in the Winter Gardens anxious to demonstrate unity by giving standing ovations to the architects of the Government 's economic policy .
18 When schools shut for lack of fuel in the winter , they gave private lessons to the richer peasants ' children .
19 Their cultural as well as their economic life could be broadened : in the winter of 1922–3 it was found that more peasant children from families owning draught animals attended school regularly than those without any .
20 In the winter of 1921–2 an American relief organizer discovered several thousand Polish war refugees huddled in railway trucks at Orenburg , waiting to be repatriated .
21 The huge slump in the grain price on the Volga and elsewhere in the winter of 1922 , and the lesser slide in the price of flax from Belorussia , were but two of the contributing factors , though grain played a basic role .
22 We know from the Smolensk archive that the guberniia committee in the winter of 1922–3 convened meetings of many local organizations , compelling their members to subscribe to various Belorussian and Great-Russian newspapers .
23 The main town in the area is Tatranská Lomnica — a good centre for skiing in the winter months and walking throughout the year .
24 The Low Tatras are accessible all-year round though you wo n't be able to do much walking in the winter .
25 The devolution campaigns began in the winter of 1978–9 when , as will be seen , the public was far more concerned with the ‘ winter of discontent ’ with the trade unions and the likely approach of a general election .
26 The arguments within the Thatcher administration went on apace over whether to swing the axe fiercely into public spending in the winter of 1980–1 , with ministers like Prior , Pym , Walker , and Carrington arguing the case for maintaining public expenditure and investment , monetarists outside the government like Alan Budd urging far more stringent monetary restraint , and Sir Geoffrey Howe at the Treasury buffeted about in between .
27 In the winter of 1981–2 , at the time of the Crosby by-election , the Conservatives had been terrified by SDP threats to their support in south and east England and suburbia generally .
28 As reported in the Winter 1990 issue , it is cared for , beautifully I can report , by Pierre Regnault , a pre-war French airman who escaped to England in 1940 , and enlisted in the RAFVR .
29 It comes from Rostand 's Chantecler , a play which Eliot recalled in 1919 , probably having seen it in Paris where it had been a hit in the winter of 1910 .
30 Disgruntled Conservative agriculturalists and imperialists resented Bonar Law 's dropping of the ‘ food taxes ’ in the winter of 1912–13 , and although he survived the initial furore sparked by this decision it was not clear that the ill feeling had been fully dissipated or his leadership wholly secured .
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