Example sentences of "to play [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the raconteurs of the extra-literary world are permitted to shape and turn the speech of the characters in their stories , and to play the pervasive evident author . |
| 2 | Do n't try to play the speech poetically . |
| 3 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 4 | You teachers realize well enough what is happening , but teachers have to play the competition game , assessing pupils , pushing them on . |
| 5 | They do this because they are not as quick as the opposition and want to give themselves as much time as possible to play the ball , no matter that they also give the other player more time . |
| 6 | ‘ If you stay out late , and think you 're going to play the professional game of tennis forever , you 're wrong , ’ Pancho says . |
| 7 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to play the sick ma act with him too , ’ he thought , white in the face , his heart pounding , ‘ and I 'll have to do it naturally . |
| 9 | That 's one of the reasons why we want to play the best sides in Europe . ’ |
| 10 | The first swap was in December 1983 but the council had not begun to play the market in earnest until late 1987 . |
| 11 | But if I want to play the odd tournament here and there , I will . |
| 12 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 13 | Bob Moncur , the Hartlepool manager , has also encouraged others of less talent to play the game on the ground , and stiffened the midfield by giving John Trewick , the former Birmingham City player , a debut . |
| 14 | He is the number one draw in the game , sponsors will almost bankrupt their companies to get him and he can afford to play the market . |
| 15 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 16 | Rather however than acknowledge that the Irish state , which refused any longer to play the Commonwealth game and declared itself a republic , was therefore a foreign country , Britain proceeded to divide the world not as hitherto into two portions — British subjects and aliens — but into three — British subjects , aliens and Irish . |
| 17 | But , of course , the devil finds work for idle hands , and they began thieving , acquiring all manner of things but particularly musical equipment When they realised it was mostly too hot to sell they thought maybe it was n't such a bad idea to learn how to play the stuff they had thieved . |
| 18 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |
| 19 | Harry Wood , a professional for twenty years with Surrey and along with Abel one of three who went ‘ on strike ’ in 1896 demanding a £20 match fee to play the Australians , left the game a bitter man . |
| 20 | When he did try to make some real contribution to society , it seemed that all he got for his trouble was The Prince was too sensitive , too intelligent , to play the part mapped out for him , the part that his courtiers were there to help maintain . |
| 21 | So the professor turned his attention to Diana , and invited her to play the piano . |
| 22 | Britain still can not decide when to play the mandarinate game of silence with the Chinese and when to break the rules ( as Beijing does all the time . ) |
| 23 | The wildest white pianist of the rock ‘ n ’ roll era is now 54 , and his early history is celebrated in a new film in which Dennis Quaid tries to play the younger Jerry Lee . |
| 24 | Fergus Aherne of Ireland and the Welshman Gary Jones have been brought in as replacements for Gary Armstrong and John Jeffrey in the Barbarians ' team to play the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 25 | Millar who liked to play the canny Scot , always said ‘ I 've seen it whenever the view was mentioned ’ . |
| 26 | But Chancellor Kohl appears to have been startled by suggestions that his letter to President Mitterrand last week implying an intention to go slow on EMU might have been inspired by a desire to play the German unity card in the West German general election next year . |
| 27 | KATIE RICKETT , the surprise selection in Britain 's team to play the United States in the Maureen Connolly Trophy match at Cardiff , was beaten 1-6 , 7-6 , 5-7 by Elly Hakami yesterday . |
| 28 | KATIE RICKETT , the surprise selection in Britain 's team to play the United States in the Maureen Connolly Trophy match at Cardiff , was beaten 1-6 , 7-6 , 5-7 by Elly Hakami yesterday . |
| 29 | Milken refused to play the game of domino justice , so the case against him will stand or fall on its own merits . |
| 30 | ‘ If they are tempted to play the nationalist card to ensure their re-election and counter the far right Republicans , that could make the Soviet Union very uneasy indeed , ’ he went on . |