Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 2 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 3 | So Mr Gates is trying to work out how his rising pile of information can best be combined with the expertise he does have , in software . |
| 4 | The epic ballad of Grimm the Squat who helped trounce the hydra . |
| 5 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 6 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 7 | The elections to the Convention were the least contentious of any of the general elections held under the later Stuarts : few of the contests which did occur were fought along party lines , and a number of constituencies returned one Whig and one Tory unopposed . |
| 8 | What is fascinating , however , is to observe how their lavish exploration of literature manages not to see meaning in the thunderous , theatrical presence of black surrogacy — an informing , stabilising , and disturbing element — in the literature they do study . |
| 9 | Well the times I do fuck with people 's stuff and I do n't get caught and the time when I have n't I 'm getting hammered left right and centre . |
| 10 | oh the hours you do get charged to the job , |
| 11 | He sits , one leg thrown across the arm of his chair , relaxed and humorous as he talks matter-of-factly about the drug he did become addicted to : the theatre . |
| 12 | At St Michaels even the rules they do have regarding animals are there to be broken at the special blessing service |
| 13 | the second one is that er we want to make sure that the policies you do have are doing the job that they were initially designed to do , and it 's thirteen years since you er took out the policy |
| 14 | For all his coinciding with the world of fashion , with the glamour and risks of the pederasty he helped publicise , Mapplethorpe 's pictures remain alien to the canons of American good taste and to meat-and-potato American ideas about art . |
| 15 | You see , it is the kind they do believe in — it 's what is expected . |
| 16 | In the fourteenth century even judges had been remarkably ignorant of the statutes which they had to enforce ; lawcourts sometimes did not even possess copies of particular acts ; and the copies which did exist were marred by gross errors . |
| 17 | and the woman who took the course she did say had she had done the reading work it |
| 18 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 19 | This service averages over five hundred separate insertions per month , and while in the strictest sense of the term you do pay for it via the call charge , it still represents amazing value for money . |
| 20 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 21 | If you buy a field guide to the birds or butterflies or mammals of an area , you will almost always find that the animals you see do clearly belong to one of the species described . |
| 22 | ‘ The fans who did turn up gave us tremendous support and I know they 'll be back but it would be nice to have an even bigger crowd roaring us on . ’ |
| 23 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
| 24 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that there is one section of the department which does have regular problems of robbery and criminal damage — our Parking Section . |
| 25 | The 29.5 per cent of the electorate who did vote Tory under the circumstances of February 1974 must have known what they were doing — contesting the ‘ unconstitutional claims of the disruptive sectional union interests ’ — but they did not form a sufficiently large social bloc . |
| 26 | You can tell the kids who do n't smoke from the kids who do smoke , they do have an attitude at that age and it |
| 27 | In modern times , the demands we make have changed in some ways . |
| 28 | ‘ On the upside we do get some new associations to replace the old , ’ says Henderson , who is happy to welcome the Anglo-Mongolian Society , among others . |
| 29 | As an amateur , he has scrupulously declined invitations to conduct works other than the Second Symphony , thereby preserving the integrity of the performances he does give . |
| 30 | His submission was that where the words of a statute were ambiguous or obscure or were capable of giving rise to an absurd conclusion it should be legitimate to look at the Parliamentary history , including the debates in Parliament , for the purpose of identifying the intention of Parliament in using the words it did use . |