Example sentences of "[verb] [art] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |
| 2 | The exhibition also attempts a reconstruction of the ceiling decoration from Jordaens 's own house which depicted the story of Psyche and was removed in 1888 . |
| 3 | He died in 1980 , but his wife has completed the story and famous friends add their recollections . |
| 4 | It is a breaking in of something wholly new : it is an act of creation which parallels the story of creation in Genesis 1 . |
| 5 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 6 | On 7 April , John Major himself spoke out in defence of what Baker had said ; ‘ MAJOR STANDS FIRM AGAINST MIGRANT FLOOD ’ , as the Daily Mail chose on 8 April to headline the story . |
| 7 | As last year , though , it was the crews who made the story , in the most wholesome of ways this time . |
| 8 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |
| 9 | They later typed these up on the computer and made the story into a book . |
| 10 | Cranog Jones denies attempting to gas his ex-wife and claims she made the story up . |
| 11 | Frak still maintains that she 's innocent , and that Mrs Fribbins made the story up . |
| 12 | The foregoing chapters bring the story to that crucial time in the long history of earthly life when emerging man would find himself unwilling to accept that he must for ever be on his guard against the uncontrolled violence that ruled the evolutionary scene . |
| 13 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 14 | Children can relax and concentrate on enjoying the story itself , as they would do in their own language . |
| 15 | ‘ Gareth , ’ said Paul , ‘ are you absolutely certain that you did n't plant the story yourself ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He said something about you phoning the story in , ’ he insisted . |
| 17 | She is n't curio I mean yo er erm , I can see if you it could get in the way of accepting the story . |
| 18 | Having said that , if you do have top-quality black and white photographs , then include one with the press releases to the national newspapers ; they may want to carry the story but have no time to find a photograph themselves . |
| 19 | Fleischmann consulted with Pons and they agreed ; Cookson got permission to carry the story . |
| 20 | Given that the object of the exercise was to focus attention on the linguistic devices which bind the story together , the first step was to dismantle the text entirely . |
| 21 | ‘ Anna Karenina ’ has other plots which introduce the story of Anna , her husband and lover and provides a rich contrast to the events involving these three parties . |
| 22 | ‘ He asked me to circulate the story of his death . |
| 23 | The first is to see the story as one of Messianic action . |
| 24 | It 's good to see the story of one of the lesser known aces of the RAF in print ! |
| 25 | Neither this , nor the matter of Ishmaelite and Midianite merchants , makes it necessary to see the story as a combination of two different traditions . |
| 26 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 27 | On the other hand , the Christians ( who could also echo the philosophers ' sentiments ) read the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve as implying a flaw in human sexuality , not necessarily as a cause of sin but as a prime expression of selfish egotism . |
| 28 | Dean Witter , however , read the story , called Intel and got it to admit that such is the case . |
| 29 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 30 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |