Example sentences of "[prep] [art] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most men of my acquaintance revel in happy ignorance when it comes to knowing plans and dates for the weeks ahead . |
| 2 | Traditionally a quiet time in the market place and with the majority of London 's contemporary art dealers involved in one or all of the art fairs taking place in Miami ( 14–18 January ) , London ( 21–24 January ) and Madrid ( 12–17 February ) , there are few new exhibitions planned for the weeks ahead , although several impressive gallery shows which opened before Christmas are continuing until the end of the month . |
| 3 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 4 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 5 | That 's the absolute dearest , you know , for the weeks we 're going . |
| 6 | Some subjects , I 'd learned during the weeks I followed Oscar Wilde , were better left only as implications . |
| 7 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 8 | During the weeks directly afterwards he confided his distress in Keith Gregory and it established a strong bond between them . |
| 9 | During the weeks before the project began , their main tasks were , firstly , informing themselves about dementia and the needs of dementia sufferers and their relatives ( by reading , by talking to service-providers , dementia sufferers and their carers , and by visiting other similar care initiatives such as those in Liverpool and Oxford ) ; they also informed themselves about the action areas where they would be working ( finding out where the elderly people lived , what services were available , the individuals who provided them ) ; secondly , they informed others about the new project by visiting social services department teams , health authority staff , voluntary organisations , and general practitioners . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Mowbray , faced with the conflicts and uncertainties that had beleaguered the court during the weeks following Edward the Fourth 's death , had made plans to return with Anne and Joan to Framlingham until the tumult had died down . |
| 11 | So time did not hang heavily during the weeks which followed the victory at Annan and Balliol 's flight . |
| 12 | Millie 's visit to the sanctum was the first of many during the weeks and months that were to follow , and all resulting from Sister Mary 's reports . |
| 13 | As a magistrate on the Nottingham bench , I had visited a number of English prisons and young offenders ' institutions during the weeks immediately before my visit to Mexico . |
| 14 | Peasant disturbances — labour and rent strikes , land seizures , and direct assaults on noble manors — peaked precisely during the weeks which followed the Tsar 's concessions . |
| 15 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 16 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 17 | How much have you been seeing of Jones during the weeks when I 've had to leave you alone here ? |
| 18 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
| 19 | While much of the attention during the weeks leading up to the Ryder Cup was pointed at the race to clinch places and the relative form of the players involved , one man , unconcerned with the battle of The Belfry , was playing better golf than anyone . |
| 20 | The Syrian stance during the weeks following the invasion effectively confirmed the country 's return to mainstream regional politics and led to the formation of a new close alignment between Syria and Egypt [ for recent improvement in Egyptian-Syrian relations see pp. 37471 ; 37626 ] . |
| 21 | As in previous rounds of talks , the atmosphere between Israel and the Arabs was tense during the weeks prior to the start of negotiation . |
| 22 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 23 | During the weeks before the event local playschemes , youth clubs and other community organizations have been preparing costumes and props in anticipation of the visit . |
| 24 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 25 | What 's nice about the weeks , which are graced by the rich and famous including tennis ace Martina Navratilova , is that people return year after year , creating a friendly atmosphere . |
| 26 | Melanie , after a while , began to notch off the weeks in her mind by the appearance of the green-banded china , ‘ Here comes another Sunday . ’ |
| 27 | Casualties among the French , badly deficient of deep shelters after the weeks of heavy shelling , were appalling . |
| 28 | Neither had any inkling of Gooch 's worries as he reported for two days pre-tour training at Lilleshall in each of the weeks leading up to Christmas . |
| 29 | Aircraft in the area suffered considerably , with reports of the Weeks Air Museum ( WAM ) being heavily damaged or possibly destroyed . |
| 30 | You should make yourself a simple planning diary of the weeks of the term , boldly marking key weeks and dates . |