Example sentences of "on the arts " in BNC.
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| 1 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 2 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 3 | Even in the matter of state spending on the arts the same difficulty presents itself . |
| 4 | David Morton , Inspector for Drama in the City of Leeds and a deservedly respected figure among our Drama Advisers , writes in the latest publication on the Arts by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( 1982 ) of recent developments in Leeds . |
| 5 | Weak on aesthetics it undoubtedly is , and yet curiously it is the only book on drama in education lucky enough to find its way into the impressive bibliography of the 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian publication on the Arts in Schools . |
| 6 | You know what those university types are like , on the arts side . |
| 7 | Those who could read may have taken advantage of some of the ideas of a local Elizabethan agricultural writer , Leonard Mascall of Plumpton , who wrote three textbooks on the arts of husbandry ; most farmers probably continued much as their forbears had done , producing a growing farming surplus more by accident than by conscious design . |
| 8 | She added : ‘ It is essential this money is properly spent on the arts , sports and charities . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed the gentry prefer to leave business to the professionals ( 'those damn usurers ' ) and concentrate on the arts and natural sciences , religious speculation and , of course , a little hunting . |
| 10 | The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes . |
| 11 | That acclaimed show is now the model for ‘ Assault on the Arts : Culture and Politics in Nazi Germany ’ , the New York Public Library 's own examination of the Third Reich 's cultural policies . |
| 12 | ‘ Assault on the Arts : Culture and Politics in Nazi Germany ’ is co-curated by Dr Gail Stavitsky , an independent art historian , and Anson Rabinach , professor of European history at Cooper Union in lower Manhattan . |
| 13 | It 's interesting that erm many been said , many of the other local authorities in the area certainly do n't produce or put on as what Harlow Council does , they certainly do n't from the arts like Harlow Council does and I think we have all got a gratitude to the Council even in difficult times the money spends on the arts . |
| 14 | Its proposals will have significant impact on the arts from the abolition of customs posts at frontiers to the approximation of VAT on works of arts and antiques . |
| 15 | I spent the years from 1983 to 1988 as a member of the National Council on the Arts , the NEA 's advisory board ; it was the Council 's task to vote on every grant , though in the end the law required the final decision in each case to be made by the Chairman . |
| 16 | The junior Minister , Robert Key , a teacher by profession and a member of the Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields , sat on the Select Committee on Education , Science and the Arts and the Conservative Back bench Committee on the Arts and Heritage . |
| 17 | Ms Radice will implement her policy by vetoing aberrant grants among the 1,122 ( totalling $66.1 million ) that the National Council on the Arts has approved for funding on the recommendations of peer panels . |
| 18 | The New York Times , The Washington Post , and The Philadelphia Inquirer have filed suits demanding public access to working meetings of the National Council on the Arts , the twenty-six member presidentially appointed group that advises the Endowment on grant applications . |
| 19 | The NEA comes up for re-authorisation next spring , while the current chairman has recently rejected grant applications recommended for funding by the advisory Council on the Arts . |
| 20 | The NEA selection process mitigates the vagaries of personal bias by submitting grant applications to representatives of the applicant 's peers , which in turn makes recommendations to a presidentially appointed twenty-six-member Council on the Arts . |
| 21 | These are particularly useful contributions for understanding systems of expenditure on the arts in which the Church and the still appallingly understudied Genoese patriciate , rather than any central authority , took the pre-eminent roles . |
| 22 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
| 23 | An issue of New Universities Quarterly in 1980 [ Vol. 35(1) ] contained several papers on the arts . |
| 24 | With a broad historical perspective , one can see the influence of the ‘ paradigm ’ of the natural sciences on the emerging social sciences , and also certain pressures exerted on the arts by the latter . |
| 25 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 26 | It is true also that warfare had little influence on the arts , the most obvious indicator of the ‘ climate of opinion ’ , during the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | A general impression was that the number of loans of theses on the physical sciences and technology was less than those on the Arts , Social Sciences , Theology , and other non-science subjects . |
| 28 | Also in 1978 was a conference — held at Stratford-upon-Avon , and again with Gulbenkian support — on the possible impact on the arts and education of the seven recently-approved CNAA degree courses in the creative and performing arts . |
| 29 | Most of them work on the arts pages and do n't know much about the rest of the paper . |
| 30 | Depressing because here was an opportunity in a mainstream publishing venture to include some of the new writing on the arts by black women in Britain . |