Example sentences of "of [art] past [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly I look at English and ask whether staff and students locate their discipline within the Leavisite paradigm or whether they are aware of the developments of the past thirty years , such as structuralism and post-structuralism . |
| 2 | Even though reactionary voices were raised in opposition to this , both in Parliament and by some campaigners , ( particularly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , who wished to reverse the policy on the basis of the misguided notion that this would remove the problem of homeless , drifting , mentally disordered people ) , the disasters of the past thirty years of unplanned discharge can not be reversed by bolting the stable door now . |
| 3 | In 1983 , 1984 , 1985 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 and 1989 — in seven of the past nine years — the right hon. Gentleman publicly and enthusiastically endorsed key demands and policies of CND . |
| 4 | That 's what 's shameful in our society and it 's only the Labour Party in unison with our movement that can right the wrongs of the past fourteen years . |
| 5 | Here then , is our own selection of some of the greatest NME covers of the past four decades . |
| 6 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 7 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 8 | Outside No 10 , Mr Major smiled broadly as the tension of the past four weeks evaporated . |
| 9 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 10 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 11 | This exceeds the annual total in any of the past four years . |
| 12 | The French nuclear programme as well as the other elements in the French energy system have been affected by the economic recession of the past four years and by the more recent fall in oil prices . |
| 13 | The progress of the past four years had been an ‘ extraordinary ’ achievement by volunteers , staff and management and Mr. Duggan 's own highlights have included the formation of the successful Kingsley Theatre Club and the occasional meals with visiting chefs . |
| 14 | Well-known in a field — motor insurance — in which many if not most competitors are losing money , Direct Line Insurance has seen improved profits in each of the past four years . |
| 15 | Best known for motor insurance , a field in which many — probably most — competitors are losing money , Direct Line has seen improved profits in each of the past four years . |
| 16 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 17 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 18 | Labour has not succeeded in winning as much as 40 per cent of the vote in any of the past six elections . |
| 19 | He signalled the first clear signs of disillusionment with Taylor when he revealed he was canvassing his fellow Council members about the events of the past six weeks . |
| 20 | If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’ |
| 21 | It builds on the experience of the past six years while , at the same time , recognising that improvements can be made in the light of that experience . |
| 22 | The experiments of the past six years have demonstrated that in many cases the usual ways in which children have been taught to read can be improved . |
| 23 | In addition , contributions can be made to take up any unused part of the total earnings of the past six years . |
| 24 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 25 | However , the vexed CFTC issue is resolved — and the AFBD last week was the lucky recipient of yet another draft solution from the commission — the traumas of the past six months have posed again the question of the association 's independence . |
| 26 | Asked for her impressions of the events of the past six months , Vera admits to twinges of pessimism about the slow rate at which progress is being made . |
| 27 | After repeated downgradings , the bonds of New York , which has run a deficit in six of the past eight years , are now rated barely above junk-grade . |
| 28 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 29 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 30 | For most of the past 100 years our teacher education has been based in specialist colleges . |