Example sentences of "thing about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 2 | A forager learns many things about a food source that aid her in the future , including its colour , shape , odour , location , nearby landmarks , time of nectar production , how to approach , land , enter , and reach the nectar , and so on . |
| 3 | You may have heard very positive things about a local employer . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’ |
| 5 | Erm so what are the important things about a function then ? |
| 6 | How could she even think such things about a man whose reputation as a womaniser rivalled Casanova 's ? |
| 7 | It had really been wonderful out , soft on the face with a little breeze moving things about a bit , the streets busy , everyone moving around , cyclists swerving in loops — no hands . |
| 8 | To conclude this section it is necessary to point out a few things about the squad training sessions . |
| 9 | You said that the international press had written some disagreeable things about the opera ? |
| 10 | The tension increased on the road because David and DeFries had a very important relationship that was crumbling and one of the things about the relationship was the direction that DeFries did supply for him . |
| 11 | There were a lot of wonderful things about the organisation and about Tony DeFries — he really is a wonderful man and gave a lot of people a lot of opportunities , but we all took it so much for granted . |
| 12 | But it also harks back to the leadership campaign , when this noted intellectual was reported as saying some unkind things about the cerebral quality of one candidate , a Mr John Major , who heard the reports . |
| 13 | Studying the cross reveals things about the galaxy doing the lensing : other lenses may reveal details about the objects they magnify . |
| 14 | From then on she discovered many things about the human race , but could find no explanations for them . |
| 15 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 16 | There were some things about the country that were difficult to get used to . |
| 17 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 18 | One of the strangest things about the two Maus books is the way they subvert the comforting conventions of the adventure strip so that its familiar clear-cut division between heroes and villains , its technical short cuts and moral simplifications somehow make it easier , not more difficult , for the reader to grasp that these things actually happened . |
| 19 | The eponymous narrator of Emma Smart is a child-prodigy mathematician , now an awkwardly virginal 21 , who learns maturing things about the unpredictable world beyond the cloisters of pure maths during a sabbatical in Manhattan . |
| 20 | One of the best things about the Acapulco apartments is its ideal location — only a five minute walk from the Veronicas nightlife centre of Las Americas . |
| 21 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 22 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 23 | Rich might not like the labelling , but some things about The Black Crowes seem to beg the comparisons . |
| 24 | ‘ Easy , ’ I replied , ‘ You see , the things about the Americans is that they 've absolutely no CLAAAARSE . ’ |
| 25 | Most people tend to remember two things about the cult 1960s television series The Prisoner . |
| 26 | That is one of the attractive things about the business : that there is no long tail . |
| 27 | That is one of the attractive things about the business : that there is no long tail Direct line headquarters : Our only property we use |
| 28 | But one of the oddest things about the anorexic is her ability to tolerate two deprivations in particular which others find quite intolerable , namely , cold and hunger . |
| 29 | One of the greatest things about the beauty of a Journey through Spain 's rich heritage is that it can start from almost anywhere . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought that one of the most interesting things about the Manson case was how they thought that The Beatles were talking to them , and that they thought The Beatles were the four horsemen of the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible . |