Example sentences of "study [art] history " in BNC.
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1 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
2 | To what extent do students study the history or sociology or economics of the discipline as a discipline , and the way in which these have changed over , say , the last century ? |
3 | It is possible to study the history and culture of Scotland in a variety of courses offered by several departments in the Faculty of Arts . |
4 | This is legitimate if we are tracing the evolution of contemporary attitudes to religion , or studying the history of ideas ; but if we wish to regain an impression of eighteenth century people as a whole we need to recall that , even among educated men ( themselves a very small minority ) , intellects cast in the mould of David Hume and Tom Paine were exceedingly rare , however great their later influence may have been . |
5 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
6 | They can gain enormous pleasure from studying the history and culture of the country they are about to visit , and also learning some of the language . |
7 | Studying the history of marriage customs may show that some of today 's reproductive practices may not be as revolutionary as they are sometimes made out to be . |
8 | The project seeks to understand the effects of colonialism and neo-colonialism by studying the history of the highland region of Charcas ( modern Bolivia ) from before the period of Inca domination to the present day . |
9 | As with me , they are either ex-crewmen , or the relatives of drivers or school children studying the history of transport or just plain old nostalgia buffs . |
10 | Studying the history of other societies from their own perspectives and for their own sake counteracts tendencies to insularity , without devaluing British achievements , values and traditions ; vi ) to train the mind by means of disciplined study . |
11 | But not content with just looking the part , Spotted Eagle has spent thirty years studying the history and culture of the native American Indian . |
12 | It goes back more than 200 years and forms an enormous resource for those studying the history of the Commonwealth . |