Example sentences of "[vb -s] of [art] [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role .
2 When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) .
3 Swales , influential chairman of the International Selection Committee , says of the manager 's job : ‘ It destroyed Don Revie ; it did n't do Ron Greenwood too much good and Bobby Robson did n't like it one bit .
4 Maria Morgan , editor of the Guinness Book 's literary section , says of the publishers ' advertisement : ‘ The trouble is that as yet we do n't have a category for most widely read author .
5 The catalogue consists of the artist 's writings together with transcriptions of his unpublished remarks and poems which have on occasion inspired him — all compiled and deftly arranged by the di Suvero authority , Monroe Denton .
6 In western music , he believes this consists of the piece 's sequence of pitches .
7 The story tells of a man 's journey of self discovery up an African River … and most of the shoot was done in tropical Belize .
8 The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village .
9 I want only to suggest that however closely those match , however complete they are , therefore , in the pairs they form , they all also work as imagines of the writer 's relation to language , now confident , now uncertain , now lonely , now roistering and so on .
10 Whereas an epitaph ( in stone ) from Perinthus , Greece , speaks of a mosaicist 's itinerance .
11 He dreams of the Queen 's perfumes but awakes , gagging , in a pigsty .
12 For example , if an adult asks of a two-year-old 's toy bear , Is that your toy ? , a typical response is No , it 's a bear .
13 We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals .
14 But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight .
15 Anyone who knows of the vehicle 's whereabouts from that date until March 7 is asked to contact detectives at Bangor police station ( tel : 0247 454444 ) .
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