Example sentences of "of [art] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether Mr Rocke fell in love with the Yorkshire moors on a visit to Wakefield for that exhibition ; but for most of the years since that time he has lived and worked in Yorkshire as senior art adviser to the West Riding County Council . |
| 2 | In the world of youth or pop culture , Britain , without reaching the frenetic heights of the years of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the sixties , remained a market leader , with rock festivals taking place in such unlikely locations as Windsor Great Park and Stonehenge . |
| 3 | The buildings of the years of expansion reflect the wholesale exploitation of a myriad of individual properties ; only in recent years has the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding been removed as ‘ urban renewal ’ has occurred . |
| 4 | And this is why , in spite of the years of ostracism , it was possible for the Springboks to lose by only three points to the All Blacks and 23 points to the Wallabies . |
| 5 | Behind Family Man is a chicken coop , a true sign of Jamaica , and in front , an old flight case rots , telling of the years of hard graft that brought this posthumous glory . |
| 6 | Mr Chevallier 's catalogue is complemented by Napoleon : An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy , 1800–1814 by Proctor Patterson Jones ( Random House ) . |
| 7 | During most , but not all , of the years of high levels of antislavery publication a significant proportion of titles ( 50 per cent in some years ) were published in provincial towns or in the provinces and London at the same time . |
| 8 | Depression in the epoch of the absolutist restoration after 1814 was both to convert the commercial and industrial interests to liberalism and to destroy the confidence of the years of prosperity , cut short by the loss of the American market and the dislocations of the war of 1808–14 . |
| 9 | The TVEI programme required clear management at the point of input , at the end of each of the years of a scheme 's work ( particularly at the cross-over from the main secondary school stage to the college phase ) and at the stage of evaluation . |
| 10 | One effect of the years of terrorism had been to abolish night in the vicinity of prisons , and the scene outside was bleakly bright . |
| 11 | Although classes have finished please try to let as many people as possible know of this occasion and make every effort to attend to show our affection and appreciation of the years of help and skill Beryl gave to Medau . |
| 12 | The taxpayer companies , Delapage Ltd and Twinsectra Ltd , each appealed against assessments in respect of the years to 31 March 1987 and 1988 . |
| 13 | Although Crosse went to sea as early as 1569 , he spent most of the years to 1584 in soldiering , at times in Ireland and in Scotland , where he served with the Regency forces and was wounded at the siege of Edinburgh Castle in 1573 . |
| 14 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 15 | The psychological black hole which is Quisling 's superabundance of gravity is more than counterbalanced by the light thrown on the society which spawned him : a small country struggling in the economic and political tempests of the years between the wars . |
| 16 | In the course of the years between 1310 and 1410 the spelling ( and no doubt the pronunciation ) had moved from de Foresteresheye ( by way of Fortereshey . |
| 17 | Europe contained , for most of the years between 1880 and 1945 , the most important forces in world politics , and was the focus of the arrangements which governed the world : these arrangements left unregulated only the western hemisphere ( and even there the British Royal Navy tacitly provided the under-writing of power needed by the Monroe Doctrine ) . |
| 18 | For more than half of the years between 1689 and Waterloo in 1815 Britain was at war , mostly with the French . |
| 19 | In more than half of the years between 1713 and 1785 debt service took up more than 40 per cent of total revenue . |
| 20 | But the main institutions which the British had adapted in keeping their nation together — the Crown , Parliament , the forces of law and order , civil and commercial institutions — had all in different ways turned sour with the progressive disillusion of the years after 1945 . |
| 21 | He suggested that government controls on the economy be retained after the war to prevent the boom-slump pattern of the years after 1918 occurring again . |
| 22 | Bevin remembered the mistakes of the years after 1918 when , he felt , the returning soldiers had been cheated of the social and economic reforms they had a right to expect . |
| 23 | He said his wife was encouraging him , but that he realized the difficulties of coming back to the Commons and of the years after the election if we were in office or even more if we were in opposition . |
| 24 | The question of the ‘ Lanfranc forgeries ’ — that is , of the additions made to nine papal letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury in order to provide clear papal authority for Canterbury 's primacy — hangs like a cloud over the primatial disputes of the years from 1072 to 1123 ; and it is important to seek such certainty as is to be obtained on this question . |
| 25 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 26 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 27 | The Labour party 's plans to nationalize British civil aviation were based both on their general policy for the nationalization of industry , and on a desire to avoid the haphazard market of the years before 1939 . |
| 28 | There is still something of the well fed confidence of the years before World War I about it , and not a little of the self-deluding establishment complacence of the years before World War II . |
| 29 | There is still something of the well fed confidence of the years before World War I about it , and not a little of the self-deluding establishment complacence of the years before World War II . |
| 30 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |