Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 2 | The woman 's killing the man seems metaphorical only , but it fits the present idea — that the one whose identity becomes submerged may want to kill the other . |
| 3 | I had often marvelled at it , but it made the present disaster all the more unbearable . |
| 4 | It has no present claim to fame and its longest guidebook entry are the words in Domesday . |
| 5 | It says the present system , which allows controlled international trade , has failed to prevent heavy illegal smuggling of wild Paphiopedilum ( slipper ) orchids . |
| 6 | It seemed the present experiment was being abandoned as ineffective . |
| 7 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |
| 8 | It replaces the present system , where appeals are dealt with by the Department , with less than 10 made each year . |
| 9 | It includes the present D thirty nine site , near to the sixteenth or seventeenth century Skelton Manor House , and it has important archaeological and nature conservation interests as described in reports . |
| 10 | It depicts the present situation , the desired situation , all ways of obtaining all possible situations , and the possible steps between them . |
| 11 | Any tense which includes a component of the present tense such as the passé composé ( il a écrit ) is personal in so far as it acknowledges the present moment of the utterance . |
| 12 | Each of these future estates , though it gave no present right to possession or enjoyment , was treated as something already in existence , which could be disposed of and would descend ( so far as it is inheritable ) just like a present estate . |
| 13 | When rumours leaked out that the Welsh Office , rather than grasping this opportunity , were seeking a ‘ derogation ’ to allow it to maintain the present battery of schemes , CPRW asked David Hunt to ‘ introduce a single , comprehensive agri-environmental scheme for the whole of Wales , integrating existing area-based schemes such as ESAs , Tir Cymen , National Park and SSSI management agreements , as well as the extensification and organic farming conversion schemes currently under consideration . |
| 14 | The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . |
| 15 | The difficulty , for the commission , is that if it abandoned the present formula , it would face exactly the same problems as national governments , seeking to foster advanced technology but fearful of the temptation of ‘ backing winners ’ . |
| 16 | The time span of the thinking is too long , it makes the present moment arbitrary , a point on a graph that is in itself meaningless . |