Example sentences of "applied [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 2 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 3 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 4 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 5 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 6 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 7 | The English Association ( also founded in 1907 ) applied itself to the advancement of the new English within the national culture . |
| 8 | Her stepsister settled in England , conformed outwardly , and applied herself to the advancement of her plump , dull son . |
| 9 | Putting it in different words , the trick was not applied to the appellants ; they voluntarily applied themselves to the trick . |