Example sentences of "that of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His story is that of every modern man longing for enlightenment , stumbling , worrying and — just occasionally — glimpsing what he hardly dares to look for . |
| 2 | In all such matters the government is in a position comparable to that of every private individual who can by his actions affect the fortunes of others over whom he has no authority , and who may , within limits , force people to obey their moral duty when they incline not to do so . |
| 3 | But unknown to him the fate of Leeds City was no longer in his hands ; it was being decided , along with that of every other club in the country , by a totally unrelated event in a faraway city in Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | We noted at the start of this chapter that our study of school management was not intended to be comprehensive : our concern was the management of PNP rather than that of every aspect of a school 's professional work . |
| 5 | Our response is as vivid as that of every other death-dreading generation since the tale was first invented by some sadistic mariner keen to terrify the new cabin-boy . |
| 6 | The TA concept is that of every individual consisting of all three P , A and C states and a transaction consisting of two such individuals , one providing a stimulus and the other a response , as in Figure 13.4 . |
| 7 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 8 | Romantic poets were keen to vindicate Chatterton , and to cherish his untimely death as that of a sacrificial victim : here was a spilling of young blood that might have watered the purlieus of a church . |
| 9 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 10 | Here was a second double life — that of a scientist who was also an artist , a chemist who was also an alchemist , a businessman who was also a magician . |
| 11 | Is it that of a vicarious believer , if such a person is possible ? |
| 12 | It is a story in which the case of Primo Levi , that of a dissident , gifted , magical , mustardly Jew , might at moments be thought to be implicated . |
| 13 | And yet , he wrote , the impact of the whole must be that of a storm . |
| 14 | The format may be that of a text book — with first fruit then nuts dealt with on a family group basis — but it does n't read as one . |
| 15 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 16 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 17 | In this case , the reality of ( say ) of an orange being behind the breadboard is different from the appearance — which is that of a breadboard leaning against the kitchen wall . |
| 18 | The atmosphere remains that of a small-town challenger event , relaxed , friendly and informal , the perfect place to escape to after the tension and crowds of the French Open . |
| 19 | The line and infill technique imparts to the work a certain quality not unlike that of a woodcut or sometimes even stained glass and the effect can be most attractive . |
| 20 | The system I have adopted is that of a CHRONICLE . ’ |
| 21 | The spectrum was that of a very distant galaxy with redshift of 2.3 ( spectral lines shifted in wavelengths towards the red by 230% ) . |
| 22 | The lower frequency expressed in Hz is that of a single ion type . |
| 23 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 24 | Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' . |
| 25 | The most startling yarn was that of Zhang Quo Zhi , who enjoyed a lifestyle which , if you did know better , you would describe as that of a successful capitalist . |
| 26 | If you compare the transport of PCBs with that of a 5,000-gallon tanker of petrol , or liquid petroleum gas — or any of the hazardous chemicals which are routinely trundling about our roads — PCBs are of a very low order of toxicity or risk . |
| 27 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 28 | There is nothing illegal nor immoral in a club chairman 's demonstration of ball skills but the contrast , in a day , between the image of a shy , reclusive , multi-millionaire property tycoon and that of a terrace tearaway was too sudden to digest . |
| 29 | There was never much conviction in the way Biggs fought , his attitude more that of a man boxing from memory rather than one attempting to resurrect a shattered career , and Mason was never persuaded that genuine peril might result from exchanges in the middle of the ring . |
| 30 | Perhaps a shimmering dry Martini cocktail ( minimum dilution , stirred , not shaken ; and served straight up ) looks even more refreshing , though its effect is that of a silver mallet . |