Example sentences of "[vb past] how [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courtney reported how difficult the Cabinet Office was finding the task of procuring comparable figures from the various government departments and agencies for the annual review . |
| 2 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 3 | I then noticed how large the Wrasse had grown , snatching the food from my fingers before I could offer it to my other fish . |
| 4 | Whilst knitting I noticed how attractive the back of the work looked and so recreated this impression on the right side simply by using the negative image facility . |
| 5 | On the way he noticed how quiet the school seemed . |
| 6 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 7 | At last November 's election in North Carolina , Senator Jesse Helms showed how emotive an issue quotas could be among white voters . |
| 8 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 9 | The quantitative and qualitative analyses of teacher-pupil interaction showed how vital a part it can play in children 's learning , yet how easy it is to waste the very limited time teachers have to interact with each child . |
| 10 | The re-arrangement of the New Zealand slip field showed how shaky the home side is in a department which was even more vital than usual in this Test . |
| 11 | Although the recent tightening of the anonymity provision for the rape survivor will probably curtail the practice of photographing the victim 's residence , the Brixton gang case showed how difficult the problem of anonymity is . |
| 12 | And they never forgot how important the sea was in their lives . |
| 13 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 14 | But as the plane taxied along the runway at Praia airport and I looked out on what could have been a simulated view from a lunar module , I sensed how daunting the task would be . |
| 15 | The waxed calabashes of oils and spices , the pouches of prepared tobacco , the bricks of indigo and necklaces of shells and seeds they offered Kit and his party betrayed how important a stake he had unwittingly obtained ; it had been a remarkable experience , he had to admit , receiving the embassy . |
| 16 | Mr Howes said he and Mr Dimmer were never issued with protective clothing or warned how dangerous the chemical was . |
| 17 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 18 | He had it nocked , and the hemp half drawn back when an extra flare lit the sky , and he saw how close the man was to firing , and how ill he looked , and how young he was : a hollow-faced boy , defending the walls of Famagusta . |
| 19 | ‘ Always , ’ Damian replied in that deep , cool voice , and in that moment Rachel saw how close the bond between the two men was , how much Charles relied on Damian , and how deeply aware of that reliance Damian was . |
| 20 | She would be even more disillusioned when she saw how limited the space actually was . |
| 21 | She knew how unendurable the lack of that fulfilment , and the lack of any prospect of it , must seem to poor Sarah . |
| 22 | He knew how banal the question was as soon as he had asked it , but it did not affect Surere 's mood . |
| 23 | They never thought how close the ceremony was to chaos . |
| 24 | She had arranged her hair again and reinstated her hat though as she performed this operation at the dressing table in Antonietta 's elegant bedroom she thought how ridiculous the hat looked . |
| 25 | Even Ceauşescu 's critics inside the Communist Party revealed how strong a hold over them the anti-agricultural ideology of Marxism possessed . |
| 26 | Suddenly I realized how terrible the fight would be for Elizabeth . |
| 27 | The King afterwards explained his sudden decision in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘ When I realized how serious the situation both political and financial had become , I felt that it was necessary for me to be in close touch with my Prime Minister and of course he could n't come here . ’ |
| 28 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 29 | He never realized how grateful a man could be for the chance to wash . |
| 30 | In doing so , he probably realized how difficult the process of change was likely to be . |