Example sentences of "[det] [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That s a prized possession , as he was one of my heros , along with Mr Lorimer ! |
| 2 | I do nt know whether that s a compliment or not ; -p |
| 3 | That s a candidate for Danny Baker 's After All ( serving suggestion ) . |
| 4 | Still it was appreciated and that s the main thing . |
| 5 | HUNTINGDON : 2.10 Armala , 2.40 The Can Can Man , 3.10 That s The Business , 3.45 Veleda II , 4.15 Antonin , 4.45 Greenwich Bambi . |
| 6 | If that s the kind of performance we can expect from well paid professionals god help us . |
| 7 | There you go , only flaw is that s the only bit of the tune I can get into my head right now … that does nt matter though — any tune is extravagant these days ! ! |
| 8 | That s the point . |
| 9 | That s the worst possible thing to do . |
| 10 | ‘ But its not Ben , ’ Zoe stood and held her back which was beginning to ache , ‘ and that s the difference . ’ |
| 11 | This 's the Three-Moon Festival or maybe the Ceremony of the Inner Spiral , I ferget . |
| 12 | This is every day 's practice as to excess freight . |
| 13 | Consumers a thirty two point six billion dollars right , this is every year , this is nineteen eighty six , eighty seven right . |
| 14 | In the UK the spread of infection has slowed down but the numbers ill and needing care are continuing to rise and this is a reflection of levels of infection some years ago . |
| 15 | This is a passage about The Slave Ship , painted by the artist in 1840 ; it comes from Modern Painters . |
| 16 | ‘ Socialist Realism ’ has been described by Ernst Fischer as implying ‘ the artist 's or writer 's fundamental agreement with the aims of the working class and the emerging socialist world ’ ; in short , this is a stance of political progressivism . |
| 17 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 18 | A typical decision for planning a survey is to take a century , or the reign of some sovereign to delimit a period ; this is a device with no relationship to the artistic activity of the time . |
| 19 | This is a fine opportunity for a sustained piece of writing , calling on a range of historical and artistic data , and including the art critical views not only of the author , but also criticism written at other periods . |
| 20 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 21 | More often auctions are not reviewed ; this is a pity , since the management of markets in art deserves scrutiny . |
| 22 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 23 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 24 | This is a possibility to which an admirer of the novel keeps having to revert . |
| 25 | This is a very different work from Biswas . |
| 26 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 27 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 28 | This is a male view of the matter , in which women are attacked , and which had me admiring these ugly sisters . |
| 29 | In pretending here to be someone other than himself who keeps murdering people , he does a tremendous job : this is a more than serviceable argot for the age in question and for the wizard in question . |
| 30 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |