Example sentences of "from [art] middle [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house .
2 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham is one of the finest small collections in the world with about 200 paintings from the Middle Ages to the 20th century .
3 The collections here include metalwork , goldsmiths ' work , ceramics and textiles from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 19C .
4 York Minster Archives There is much material from the Middle Ages to the present ( 1150 onwards ) .
5 From the Middle Ages to the present our language has hinged the words that represent people , animals and things together through verbs , through doing words .
6 The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance .
7 Art from the Middle Ages to Baroque
8 On show are sculptures dating from antiquity to the early Christian era , and from the Middle Ages to the present day , with special emphasis on modern German examples .
9 One of the joint ventures we envisage is ‘ Autour du noir ’ , an exhibition on the theme of black , from the Middle Ages to the present day .
10 Entries are invited for the Minda de Gunzberg prize for an outstanding exhibition catalogue on Western art from the middle ages to the twentieth century , in any language , published in 1992 .
11 The Museum houses the Welsh national art collection and the principal theme of these galleries is the work of Welsh artists in their British and European context , and the history of the Fine and Applied Arts in Wales from the Middle Ages to the 20th century .
12 [ V. Blain , P. Clements , and I. Grundy , The Feminist Companion to Literature in English : Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present , 1990 ; K. N. Cameron ( ed . ) ,
13 Subsequently published as a three-decker ( 1888–9 ) , the novel traces the fortunes of the Stanfield family from the middle ages to the Restoration , and combines historical romance , influenced by Sir Walter Scott [ q.v. ] , with anachronistic treatment of Victorian inventions .
14 The department offers supervision for PhD or MLitt , full-time or part-time in any area of French cultural studies , including literary and linguistic studies from the Middle Ages to the present ; Francophone studies in Africa and Canada ; cinema ; contemporary politics and institutions .
15 In the second year , language work , oral and written , is developed further , while for the study of literature students are offered the possibility of selecting their field of study from four different programmes : German Texts from the Middle Ages to the 16th Century ; the ‘ Golden Age ’ of German literature ( 1760–1820 ) ; German Literature and Society 1830–1950 ; Literature , Art and Media in 20th Century Germany .
16 A wide range of music is studied from the Middle Ages to Beethoven .
17 The book offers definitions of terms related to the techniques , processes and materials used in the making of ceramics in Europe from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century .
18 The Slovenes were under Austrian/German rule for most of their long history , from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century , yet they retained their distinct Slav culture ; their national revival in the nineteenth century could draw on a rich cultural heritage .
19 Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel .
20 Edward II 's cousin and the most powerful of his earls , he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage .
21 Songqiao ( 1986 ) states that the silt amounts to some 1.6 × 10 9 per year and that the rate of erosion from the middle reaches of the Huanghe River basin is 100 t ha- per year .
22 The census returns from the middle decades of the nineteenth century record an extraordinary wide range of rural occupations before mechanization and mass production destroyed so many of the traditional hand crafts .
23 There was a growth , notably from the middle decades of the nineteenth century , in the collection and publication by governments of information about trade and trade opportunities .
24 The lifestyle of its inhabitants is not markedly different in style or expectation from the middle classes of Los Angeles or Lyons .
25 The institutes which began to open in London in the late 1850s appear to have recruited from among the lower-middle class , though Waldo McGillicuddy Eagar , a young Edwardian club worker ( later to be a leading figure in the National Association of Boys ' Clubs ) claimed that ‘ as anxiety about the working classes was intensified , some Youths ’ Institutes reached down from the middle classes to the poor , and increasingly diluted their formal educational programmes with recreational activities .
26 However , they also suggest that the symmetrical family form ‘ trickles down ’ from the middle classes to the working class .
27 After 1918 the ILP was also able to recruit Liberal radicals from the middle classes to what had always been a predominantly working-class party .
28 From the middle years of the second century the converts included some philosophically trained minds , at least the equal of most pagan contemporaries .
29 Direct royal involvement in ecclesiastical affairs intensified from the middle years of the decade .
30 From the middle years of the fourteenth century , such steps were sufficient to keep all but the most determined attackers at bay .
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