Example sentences of "that the arts " in BNC.

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1 Sir : Your report ( 9 October ) stated that the Arts Council had prepared two leaflets for separate distribution at the Conservative and Labour Party conferences .
2 He also implied that the Arts Council might soon give greater emphasis to its former role as a policy body as well as a grant-giving organisation .
3 Mr Mellor told BBC Radio Four 's World This Weekend there was a clear feeling that the arts , an ‘ important and enduring part of society ’ , needed Cabinet representation .
4 A startling illustration of another educator 's naive understanding of the work of drama teachers occurs in a recent publication by David Hargreaves ( 1982 ) who recommends that the arts and drama in particular should be given a place at the centre of the curriculum .
5 Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again .
6 Do you think that there is even a sort of ‘ them and us ’ attitude , a feeling that the arts world is an ever open maw that cries out for endless sums of money and that the proper business of government is to resist ?
7 It believes that the arts are forces for social and economic regeneration ; it believes in scholars and art experts from different countries meeting each other ; it believes in restoring monuments ; it believes in education ; it believes in bringing damagingly incompatible laws on cultural property closer together .
8 Five former chairmen of the Arts Council , Lord Cottesloe ( 1960–65 ) , Lord Goodman ( 1965–72 ) , Lord Gibson ( 1972–77 ) , Sir Kenneth Robinson ( 1977–82 ) and Lord Rees–Mogg ( 1982–89 ) also wrote to The Times : ‘ It has been and remains the cardinal principle of the Arts Council since its formation , that the arts should be immunised from political control ’ .
9 Luke Rittner , who resigned from the Arts Council for the sake of the ‘ arm 's length principle ’ the convention dear to British minds that politicians should not interfere in arts funding decisions now says that principle is dead and that the arts community must embrace the continental approach of ‘ hands on ’ government .
10 Its populist mission is to ‘ challenge the fallacy that the arts and humanities belong only to a few ’ .
11 We believe that the arts should play an essential role in educating and enriching all Americans .
12 actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone
13 There is a strong tradition in the UK , deriving partly from Matthew Arnold , that the arts are essentially human in their capacity to develop human sensibility , and moral and social awareness .
14 It is clear too , that the arts are associated with sexual pleasure , the sciences with sexual restraint … .
15 That , at least , is a clear statement of the belief that the arts and sciences were incompatible ; for one thing , the arts and the sciences are considered so different that it is difficult to concentrate one 's energies on both ; for another , English is not useful — and , therefore , by implication , worthless — to someone studying science .
16 If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally .
17 A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal ; Vicky , for example , argues that the arts are ‘ a waste of taxpayers ’ money' and then says ‘ I could n't motivate myself to do it ’ .
18 These students were aware that they were being magnanimous towards the arts ; very few conceded that the arts might have more to offer than sciences .
19 In the Gulbenkian Report the clear exposition of the idea that the arts mediate between an individual 's inner being and the external world , and that this gives an educational role to arts activities in the development of pupil personality , appears to have impressed not only arts educators but almost all those administrators , such as GRIST coordinators , who were responsible for programmes which included an arts element .
20 The conclusion to be drawn is that whoever decides funding criteria must believe either that the arts are irrelevant , or too low a priority , or that current arts practice is satisfactory ( Arts Education Forum , 1987 ) .
21 There is some evidence ( ILEA , Oxfordshire ) that LEAs may also be responding to the view that the arts coordination is more consistently served in advisory services by a single member of staff with cross-arts responsibilities than through the informal cooperation of individual arts subject advisers .
22 One was that the arts INSET programme could be deficient as the views of arts staff would not be represented when INSET decisions were being made .
23 I have the impression that the arts should be first and foremost about developing pupils ' autonomy , not only in terms of the artistic skills which were being achieved , but also in valuing the vital quality of independent thinking .
24 This has generated an understandable concern that the arts are particularly vulnerable in this respect .
25 The APU Working Party rested its case firmly on the philosophical groundwork of Best ( 1980 ) , who over recent years has pioneered the argument that the arts are amenable to judgments that are as ‘ objective ’ as those employed in scientific research .
26 Similarly , Aspin ( 1986 ) , in his article ‘ Objectivity and assessment in the arts ’ , agrees that the arts are ‘ objective ’ :
27 Nevertheless , the view that the arts can , and should , be assessed is one that has begun to receive widespread support , with the authors of the Gulbenkian Report stating quite unequivocally the need for schools to provide basic information to parents and employers about :
28 Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations .
29 The search for spirituality can become diverted also into cults or fascination with the occult , and if it avoids these dangers it can become simply another form of aesthetic experience and move away from the major religious traditions , so that the arts become a kind of substitute for religion .
30 She is conscious of the fact that the Arts Council is looking at the entire range of dance companies which it supports , and that funds will be concentrated on those which seem to have the most positive artistic policy .
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