Example sentences of "to carve out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 2 | Even as she died her foot stayed on the accelerator , leaving the wheels spinning in the white sand to carve out a 2ft deep hole . |
| 3 | Rank 's attempt to carve out a niche in the American market failed because his films were too slow and talkative for transatlantic tastes . |
| 4 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 5 | Cohen-Solal 's identification of three strategies , expertise , orthodoxy and prestige , enabling these three prominent communists to carve out a particular niche for themselves within the party structure , can not be faulted . |
| 6 | " The venerable Stalinist institution rejects and pushes aside authentic and ambitious Leninists who are not allowed to carve out a career in the PCF because of their bourgeois origins . |
| 7 | to carve out a living . |
| 8 | Other ‘ schoolboys ’ included Jeremy Bulloch , who was to carve out a successful acting career , and Christopher Beeny who had already made an impression as a child actor in The Grove Family TV serial and later appeared in programmes such as Upstairs , Downstairs , The Rag Trade and In Loving Memory . |
| 9 | Gabrielle went to stay with her parents in the Kent countryside for a few days after the hearing , collected her thoughts and decided to carve out a life for herself and her children . |
| 10 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 11 | Although they aim to carve out an inviolable space for individualist explanation , the boundaries of this area remain unspecified ; some human behaviour , it is allowed , requires a holistic approach ; but when does individualism give way to holism and vice versa ? |
| 12 | In vain he hoped to carve out an alternative career as a journalist and cricket writer . |