Example sentences of "[prep] [art] twentieth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Anna Pavord 's recognition ( 27 September ) of the opportunity for the twentieth century boldly to turn Uppark 's tragedy to advantage , is a more compelling argument . |
| 2 | Schools have shown increasing interest in it , helped by such excellent organisations as the Institute for Contemporary British History , but there is limited room in the curriculum for the twentieth century , let alone for the period from when the text books end and memory begins . |
| 3 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 4 | For the twentieth century as a whole , the variations in solar irradiance implied by the analyses are within the bounds of possibility . |
| 5 | Such a view ignores the history of nineteenth-century local government and has been challenged for the twentieth century by Ken Young . |
| 6 | Counties with some of the highest growth rates up to 1978 were in the rural extremities of southern England , Wales , and Scotland , a most unusual situation for the twentieth century . |
| 7 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 8 | Gramsci 's Prison Notebooks represent not only a stirring monument to the human spirit under adversity , but a significant turning-point in the history of Marxist ideas and their relevance for the twentieth century . |
| 9 | This is a source that is of course only available for the twentieth century . |
| 10 | In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose . |
| 11 | At Pembroke College was Edward Wynn , one of the kindest dons to grace Cambridge during the twentieth century , and another member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd . |
| 12 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 13 | Shipping lines continued to carry emigrants across the Atlantic during the twentieth century . |
| 14 | One of the main foundations upon which the gigantic economic growth of the US during the twentieth century was built , was its abundance of cheap onshore oil . |
| 15 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 16 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 17 | Immigration during the twentieth century has brought to Brazil many new talents and her political life reflects the input of those who have chosen her as their homeland . |
| 18 | In so doing I depart somewhat from studies of working-class involvement in the formal political sphere during the twentieth century . |
| 19 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 20 | A great deal of research in the field during the twentieth century has been carried out by scholars trained , in the first instance , as historians , with an equally significant contribution by a number of eminent scholars working in museums ; these latter tended to introduce a strong art-historical bias . |
| 21 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 22 | For 1981 , the graph , representing in the main those born during the twentieth century , was more rectangular . |
| 23 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 24 | During the twentieth century Britain , in common with most industrial western societies , has undergone a major demographic transformation ( OECD 1988 ) . |
| 25 | Stephen Koss 's verdict on the political press during the twentieth century applies with equal force to its impact on the operation of criminal justice : |
| 26 | The planners made much of the growth of the built-up area of Tyne and Wear during the twentieth century . |
| 27 | There have , during the twentieth century , been considerable changes in the proportions of married people in the population , as can be seen from figure 6.4 . |
| 28 | During the twentieth century , married couples have not only reduced the size of their families , they have also completed their families much earlier in the marriage . |
| 29 | This was almost the only time during the twentieth century when Dutch rule assumed a relatively progressive face . |
| 30 | In the more remote regions population losses have been as high as 10 per cent in many of the intercensal periods during the twentieth century ( Dunn 1976 ) . |