Example sentences of "[vb past] to create [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the British moved to create a new regime for their airlines after the war , the outstanding unresolved issue from the Chicago conference remained : the need for an Anglo-American air transport agreement . |
| 2 | In addition to installing basic systems for accounting , cost-control and distribution , Mr Shirley helped to create a layer of reliable executives who could translate the technical visions of the company 's chairman and founder , Mr Bill Gates , into products that got out the door , on time and to budget . |
| 3 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 4 | Labouring poets who attempted a realistic description of work and social conditions helped to create a new literary response to social reality , a development most commonly associated with Goldsmith , Langhorne , Blake , Crabbe , and eventually Wordsworth . |
| 5 | This and its tributaries , helped to create a thriving cloth trade in Painswick . |
| 6 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |
| 7 | However , the increasing commercialisation of the game cut across football 's working class origins and helped to create a situation in which football violence was common . |
| 8 | Through its support for the war and its positive participation in the construction of the war economy the Labour movement helped to create a fund of popular support for socialist objectives . |
| 9 | For example , the reshaping of absolute monarchies into liberal constitutional regimes across much of Europe in Marx and Engels ' lifetimes reflected the imperatives of industrialization , since constitutionalism ( temporarily ) fostered stable capital accumulation , increased the rate of technical change , and helped to create a trained and compliant workforce . |
| 10 | We have been exploring the idea that Protestantism helped to create a climate in which the scientific enterprise could gain momentum . |
| 11 | His collaboration with the Croatian Ljudevit Gaj , and his contacts with literary figures such as Petar Petrović-Njegoš in Montenegro , helped to create a sense of Yugoslav cultural unity . |
| 12 | A 171-km canal link between the Main and the Danube in south-east Germany was opened on Sept. 25 ; it helped to create a 3,500-km continuous navigable waterway from the Netherlands North Sea port of Rotterdam to Constanza on Romania 's Black Sea coast . |
| 13 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 14 | Pollock , I 'm sure , was unaware of this programme — he died too soon ; nevertheless the propaganda apparatus helped to create the confusion surrounding his art after his death . |
| 15 | Mr Guerin , who sold his International Signal and Control company to Ferranti in 1987 for £420m , has admitted creating numerous fictitious arms contracts that helped to create the illusion of prosperity . |
| 16 | Building upon the experience which he gained as Malevich 's assistant at the National Institute for Artistic Culture in Leningrad in 1923–26 , when he helped to create the master 's ‘ Analytic Tables ’ , Rozhdestwjenski directed his talent towards the decorative arts , designing books and advertisements , painting porcelain , and creating , with Nikolai Suetin , the Soviet Pavilion for the World Exhibitions held in Paris in 1938 and in New York in 1939 . |
| 17 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 18 | He helped to create the idea of a modern movement with his own " difficult " poetry , and then assisted at its burial . |
| 19 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 20 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 21 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 22 | Although first reactions to Linnaeus were usually unfavourable , on account of his egoistic nature , his visit helped to create an understanding on which goodwill and confidence were built , and his system of classification , based on the number of sexual parts in the flowers , became generally accepted within the next thirty years . |
| 23 | He argues that this helped to create an overall ‘ community of interest ’ shared by business and council which made direct and formal interconnection largely irrelevant . |
| 24 | Put another way , puritan values helped to create an audience receptive to programs for the improvement of man 's estate . |
| 25 | These visits helped to create an atmosphere in which more solid agreements could be reached , especially over disarmament where both sides were feeling the strain of ever-increasing defence budgets . |
| 26 | Russian nationalism , an official ideology in the late Tsarist period and still very strong today , helped to create an attitude towards the West which combined an admiration for its prosperity and efficiency with a deep contempt for its petty-mindedness and commercialism : a ‘ peculiar amalgam of love and hate ’ , as Isaiah Berlin has described it , combining intellectual respect and envy with emotional suspicion , hostility and contempt . |
| 27 | HE last time that the European Community tried to create a ‘ political union ’ , 30 years ago , it all ended in tears . |
| 28 | He also tried to create a smokescreen by engaging in a pointless quibble about the statistics on how many people will be affected by his proposals . |
| 29 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |
| 30 | Assorted pundits and government ministers have in recent times deliberately tried to create the impression that reducing interest rates is the main , or even the only , way to haul the British economy out of recession . |