Example sentences of "[art] [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is n't , he thought , then what I 'm going to do now is probably the most stupid thing any nome has ever done anywhere in the total history of nomekind . |
| 2 | Exemplary material suggested in the interim history reports can be examined , and similar examples may be found that relate to the local area . |
| 3 | It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death . |
| 4 | It was not a destructive episode in the monetary history of humanity . |
| 5 | As Gibbon has noted , the cases of both Irish nationalism and Ulster unionism remain ‘ the two most spectacular class alliances in the political history of the British Isles ’ ( 1975 : 3 ) . |
| 6 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 7 | It was accompanied by a street exhibition on the political history of Czechoslovakia from its foundation in 1918 until the present , again using of lot of materials not seen before . |
| 8 | In countries where the political history or the voting system produces a myriad of parties , these are nearly always grouped into government and opposition . |
| 9 | For the Frankfurt School , ‘ ideology ’ is a concept to be used in the political interpretation of social forces and is predicated on a Marxist theory of the political history and structure of society . |
| 10 | As with earlier national campaigns against unemployment and the League of Nations policy of sanctions against Fascist Italy , the role of the BUF in the political history of the decision-making process was non-existent . |
| 11 | To place the Reagan presidency in context therefore , we need some understanding of the political history of the post-World War II period . |
| 12 | In our discussion groups , we talk about women 's double exploitation and a bit about the political history of El Salvador and the revolutionary organizations . |
| 13 | Tarbes has done well by its poets then — indeed , there is a broad avenue in the middle of town named for Laforgue ; it is more discreet , and understandably , about its one serious contribution to the political history of France , in the person of the peculiarly unprincipled Revolutionary terrorist , Bertrand Barrere , who , in the judgement of Macaulay , ‘ approached nearer than any person mentioned in history of fiction , whether man or devil , to the idea of consummate and universal depravity ’ . |
| 14 | A true historical investigation would take account of press agitation , party conferences , Government pronouncements , and debates in Parliament ; but all these are ignored as the result of a rule excluding evidence of the political history of a statute . |
| 15 | This developing interaction between democracy , capitalism and social classes , further complicated by nationalism , constitutes the political history of the past century , and is the subject matter of the most important political theories of this period . |
| 16 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 17 | It is an approach that has informed political actions and hence the political history of the country . |
| 18 | According to the classic history of modern whaling by two Norwegian historians , Lillie ‘ had been so shocked by what the cruelty to whales involved that he tirelessly championed electric killing , which in his opinion would be more humane ’ . |
| 19 | In the light of the discussion above , it is possible to present the objectives of investment planning and enterprise democracy not merely as desirable from a socialist point of view , but as potential means of tackling the basic problems reflected in the sorry history of party politics since the '60s : investment planning as a means of breaking through the conservative/speculative mode of calculation of the financial institutions and restructuring industry ; enterprise democracy as a means of transforming the ‘ veto power ’ of the working class into a positive influence over the direction and management of enterprises . |
| 20 | The turbulent history of much of South Korea since 1945 suggested the likelihood of this eventuality and was further strengthened by the bloody fighting in Cheju island in October 1948 , which will be discussed below . |
| 21 | Now in this little booklet that I 've got about the er er the potted history of the Cosmopolitan Debating Society , it mentions a very brilliant man by the name of W H , now I was very friendly with him because he was th President of the I L P and I was the secretary . |
| 22 | Indeed , if Portsmouth and Sunderland were to defy the odds and emerge victorious from today 's matches against Liverpool and Norwich , it would be the first time in the 120-year history of the tournament that two teams from the Second Division contested the final . |
| 23 | In the oral history of the North Shore , 18 January 1985 is remembered , in part , as the day Ken Bradshaw swam three times round the Bay . |
| 24 | This is well illustrated by the oral history of the Gilbert Islanders ' discovery of South America in the distant past . |
| 25 | Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet . |
| 26 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 27 | The registers of Giovanni Scriba , the first of the series , show us this world already in being ; but as so often in the economic history of the age , light dawns as we say farewell . |
| 28 | Unless Wordsworth 's poetry is studied in the context of the economic history of the time many important points will be missed , and the intention of whole poems may be misconstrued . |
| 29 | These poems are probably set in Somerset , but as most of Wordsworth 's social observation is directed towards the inhabitants of the Lake District , it would be as well to consider the economic history of that area in some detail before proceeding with Wordsworth 's reactions to the poverty and despair around him . |
| 30 | For example , if we seek a document on the economic history of Germany and we know that works on history are arranged first by country , then by social process and then by period , it will be easier for us to find this document than if the subdivision was less systematic . |