Example sentences of "a statement about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are making a statement about a child and it is going on the child 's record . ’ |
| 2 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 3 | The isolation of the portrait appears to be a statement about a society — and a photographer . |
| 4 | Quite apart from any other difficulties , it seemed implausible to suppose that a statement about a red rose in the dark did have exactly these or those consequences for possible observation . |
| 5 | As Ayer said , ‘ what is required to verify a statement about a material thing is never the occurrence of precisely this or precisely that sense-content , but only the occurrence of one or other of the sense-contents that fall within a fairly indefinite range ’ ( Ayer , 1946 , p. 12 ) . |
| 6 | Speaker B treats this contribution as requiring an answer , following a pattern described by Labov in the rule : ‘ If ( speaker ) A makes a statement about a ( speaker ) B-event , it is heard as a request for confirmation ’ ( 1972b : 254 ) . |
| 7 | Normally , a prime minister 's office would issue a statement about an editor . |
| 8 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 9 | A statement about the sequence is given ( that is , ‘ B does not follow A ’ or ‘ A precedes B ’ ) ; the subject is required to answer if the statement is true or false . |
| 10 | Eventually , Sir David 's office issued a statement about the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | The co-option of an academic may well be a statement about the way in which the school values intellectual development . |
| 12 | Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date . |
| 13 | This may have some root in Tolkien 's own experience , for it stresses the unwisdom of fathers leaving their children — Tolkien hardly knew his own father — and seems to be groping towards a statement about the incompatibility of men and women , users and providers , wasters and winners . |
| 14 | ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey ( left ) is clearly furious that every time he has been ready to make a statement about the Texaco Trophy events of August 23 , Pakistan 's lawyers have threatened writs . |
| 15 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 16 | If everything which is pleasurable is good that is a significant ethical truth , not a statement about the meaning of a word , or the tautology that whatever is pleasant is pleasant . |
| 17 | What is being expressed here is a statement about the limits of law 's hortatory function . |
| 18 | What is being expressed here is a statement about the limits of law in the resolution of disputes . |
| 19 | The housewife says she has an old and inefficient vacuum cleaner : this is a statement about the inappropriateness of the tool to the work . |
| 20 | I believe if this is indeed a statement about the christian ideal of marriage , then we should put worship at the very centre of it . |
| 21 | It is merely a statement about the desired results of the advertising , in terms of what the advertising is to communicate . |
| 22 | To choose to study ‘ arts ’ rather than ‘ science ’ is to make a statement about the values one considers important . |
| 23 | To say that physics and physical science have such strong boundaries is not simply to make a statement about the disciplines . |
| 24 | The book starts with a statement about the natural equality of all entities ( 1978 : 61 ) , which Simmel , writing in the Romantic mould , perceives as the first primitive imposition of subjective value upon nature . |
| 25 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 26 | For example a statement about the number of miles it 's done , or the number it 's had . |
| 27 | IT IS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE DAY TO DAY ROUTINE AFFECTING ELECTORS IN THE NORTH WARD COMMUNITY . |
| 28 | Do we need a statement about the outing . |
| 29 | 75 per cent of subjects in this condition included a statement about the overall theme of the passage at the beginning of their recall protocols even though this information had actually been presented at the end of the passage and subjects were instructed to recall the passage verbatim . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what new hospital facilities are available to the residents of Wanstead and Woodford ; and if he will make a statement about the funding of further phases of building at Whipps Cross hospital . |