Example sentences of "[art] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put the matter in a slightly different way , reading art criticism is a preparation for an aesthetic event . |
| 2 | Another aspect of the matter is the question of scale . |
| 3 | This is a male view of the matter , in which women are attacked , and which had me admiring these ugly sisters . |
| 4 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 5 | He has her report the matter to the police . |
| 6 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 7 | The Facts is preoccupied with one shiksa in particular : the deadly Josie , whom Roth marries , who forces his hand in the matter by faking an abortion , who comes near to destroying him , and who may have been , according to the Zuckerman letter at the end of the book , an alcoholic . |
| 8 | Singer is a writer of standing in the matter of when , in what he sees as the ‘ disappointing ’ modern world , a Jew is not a Jew . |
| 9 | Issues of class conflict within the group were to remain largely subordinate , as the matter of the nature and defence of loyalism itself was to dominate the scene right down to the present day . |
| 10 | The truth of the matter probably lies somewhere in between . |
| 11 | Before applying the general analysis to Ireland , and in order to get to the heart of the matter , it is first necessary to understand the close relationship between beliefs and violence within the context of the state in general . |
| 12 | Indeed , this is the most significant aspect of the role of religion in the divisions and conflicts in Ireland and goes to the heart of the matter . |
| 13 | When the matter was debated in the Dáil , Fianna Fáil opposed the government view , and de Valera himself supported the local population 's opposition on the same religious grounds . |
| 14 | It later became clear that the two ministers had consulted the Roman catholic archbishop of Dublin before delivering their judgement on the matter . |
| 15 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |
| 16 | When forced into a debate on the matter by Seamus Mallon of the SDLP and Senator Mary Robinson , the four church representatives , Bishop Cathal Daly , Bishop O'Mahoney , Bishop Cassidy , and Mrs McAleese , retained the right of the church to enter into public debate on the evils of divorce . |
| 17 | However , it is likely that it was not felt necessary to refer the matter anywhere else as , according to current practice , it was a matter of discipline . |
| 18 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 19 | What 's the matter with me ? wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) . |
| 20 | Friends talked the matter over far into the night and then went home , to their families or to the loneliness of dingy bed-sitting rooms , to carry on the debate in diaries and notebooks , poems and letters . |
| 21 | The truth of the matter , he wrote , is that no one wants to be rescued . |
| 22 | Later that evening Henry , who was a firm believer that time spent in reconnaissance was seldom wasted , raised the matter of the dinner party with his brother-in-law . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What on earth 's the matter ? |
| 25 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's the matter , Dorothy ? ’ somebody asked . |
| 27 | You look shattered , What 's the matter ? |
| 28 | They were n't sure if this applied in my case but they were investigating the matter . |
| 29 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 30 | ‘ Jay , what 's the matter ? ’ said Lucy . |