Example sentences of "[subord] [art] exercise in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 2 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 3 | Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ? |
| 4 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 5 | Of course actual authors are dialectically difficult to classify and my examples are fairly arbitrarily drawn , the diagram being illustrative rather than an exercise in exegesis . |
| 6 | It was felt that the state does not want to protect people and the legislation was nothing more than an exercise in buying time ( something that the people of West Belfast have n't got ) . |
| 7 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 8 | Good drawing is a frame of mind as well as an exercise in line , For good figure drawing from memory , the artist 's identification with his or her subject of paramount important . |
| 9 | Good drawing is a frame of mind as well as an exercise in line , For good figure drawing from memory , the artist 's identification with his or her subject of paramount important . |