Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having looked gloomily into the windows of antique shops , and steered his way past lines of tipsy Tories , he returned to the Grand where a functionary manning the door noticed that he was not wearing a photo-pass . |
| 2 | A high wall bars any chance of escape to the left and a frosty beech hedge borders the alley to the right . |
| 3 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 4 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 5 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 6 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 7 | They will all tend to put a stress on the system and depending on our health or susceptibility we will be affected to a greater or a lesser degree . |
| 8 | Each of these organisations is , to a greater or a lesser extent , involved in transferring technology to an end user . |
| 9 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 10 | For instance , pupils might be asked to decide whether an object belonged to a wealthy or a poor person , whether it was an everyday object or kept for special occasions . |
| 11 | If a proper return is not so delivered the company is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine and a daily default fine so long as the contravention continues . |
| 12 | Instead , a red quark has to be joined to a green and a blue quark by a " string " of gluons ( red + green + blue white ) . |
| 13 | Some of these struggles have been inspired by base motives — desires to appropriate art to a national or a political cause . |