Example sentences of "the business " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no trick to the business of learning lines , as you will find out as you go on — although learning lines for an audition is different from memorising a part in a play for production , because then you will be operating with other actors around you . |
| 2 | Equity entry is of crucial concern to the large numbers of trained and talented drama school finalists seeking to enter the business every year . |
| 3 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 4 | So for new actors coming into the business of acting what do you advise as the best possible course of action ? |
| 5 | I think it 's a terribly cruel profession — it 's always YOU that is being rejected , the meat market side of the business . |
| 6 | A R. One of the biggest questions for young actors today is the problem of becoming members of Equity in order to work in the business for which they have trained . |
| 7 | It is likely that the inner core of local church laity , such as select vestry members of the Church of Ireland and presbyterian elders , provided and still provide one of the links between the material and spiritual interests of the groups in the alliance , as these laity were and are active in the business and commercial fields also . |
| 8 | I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote . |
| 9 | Our theory — if we are in the business of expounding a theory on the subject of pub design — is that each pub must be treated individually and on its own merits . |
| 10 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 11 | The newly constructed 166-bedroom hotel is situated in the business district and boasts a business centre , restaurant , poolside gardens and 24-hour limousine service . |
| 12 | At the heart of the series is BB who has built the business empire from humble beginnings , and who is played by Zia Mohyeddin , whose screen appearances include JEWEL IN THE CROWN , MOUNTBATTEN , ASSAM GARDEN etc . |
| 13 | After Paul left , the party broke up quickly , as though everyone felt that the business of the day had now been concluded . |
| 14 | For my contemporaries in the postgraduate school at Durham in the early 1980s , the inclusion of the scientism of the self ( to use Okely 's phrase ) became part of ‘ doing the business ’ ( to move to the jargon of my contemporaries in the detective departments ) . |
| 15 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 16 | A detective inspector shrugged this off , arguing from ‘ practical mastery ’ and ‘ insider 's ’ knowledge , that the practices of ‘ doing the business ’ remained undisturbed outside of the PACE interview . |
| 17 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 18 | In some respects , I think it was the detail of the ethnographic ‘ thick description ’ which most alarmed them ; for as almost all of them wistfully pointed out : ‘ it shows exactly how we do the business ’ . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the coach is in the business of picking winners , not his friends , so if you have n't been selected , you have to admit to yourself that perhaps you did n't deserve to be . |
| 20 | What — ‘ You know the business . ’ |
| 21 | He stood up , stony-faced , and was turning to the door when James Menzies held up his hand and said , ‘ Wait — wait — that is only half the business . ’ |
| 22 | Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’ |
| 23 | Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry . |
| 24 | For what are their professions and avocations per se without the business sense ? |
| 25 | The business man can use you all in the new régime . |
| 26 | The business was in need of new blood , he had a widowed mother to consider , and his lineage through Nathan , Lyon and Lazarus claimed priestly — not to say professional — satisfaction . |
| 27 | And the business cards ? |
| 28 | The framework for the investigation of ‘ sensory coding ’ was established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when the business of explaining perception was transformed into the more specific project of correlating the physical properties of perceived objects and events with patterns of activity in the nervous system and the latter with the subjective properties of the experience : |
| 29 | Now this really is the business . |
| 30 | Over the next five years the CJ chain grew to fourteen , including provincial cities such as Birmingham , Liverpool and Glasgow ( Central and Queen Street ) , spawning meanwhile a revolution in approach throughout the business . |