Example sentences of "it [verb] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words Braque is in effect saying ‘ My picture is an object , a flat surface , and the spatial sensations it evokes are a painter 's space which is intended to inform and not to deceive . ’ |
| 2 | And this in turn suggests its own moral , which is a constant theme of structuralist poetics : The primacy of the system over what it represents is a conclusion that poetics derives from the extension of the Saussurean model to the sphere of the grammar of literature ; and now we find literature itself endorsing these conclusions . |
| 3 | The relationship between an indicator and the property of the underlying phenomenon it represents is a probabilistic one , though the parameters of the relationship are unknown since the phenomenon itself can never be directly inspected . |
| 4 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 5 | The army refused to become involved in what it maintained was an ‘ industrial ’ strike and , anyway , it was incapable of running the electricity industry . |
| 6 | But when it stopped being a thrill , I gave it up . ’ |
| 7 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 8 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 9 | All it needs is a 2m diameter hole , which can be in the kitchen , conservatory , garage , or wherever . |
| 10 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 11 | TrueEffects is a compact package — all it needs is a mere 500Kb of hard disk space — and it works really well . |
| 12 | With elegant blue toile wallpaper , rich gilt mirrors , a Victorianstyle fireplace , and furniture made by John , all it needs is a tree , candles and trails of ivy from the garden to transform it into a very festive scene . |
| 13 | ‘ All it needs is a lack of fear . |
| 14 | ‘ If they 're after you all it needs is a telephone call to your parents : ‘ A question about your son 's camera insurance . |
| 15 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 16 | What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts . |
| 17 | All it needs is the confidence a Conservative victory would bring . |
| 18 | As said : ‘ The technology is all there , all it needs is the imagination and push to make it work ’ . |
| 19 | The island on which it stands is the loneliest inhabited place on Earth . |
| 20 | Although this is both extensive and varied by the standards of most of the human sciences , though perhaps not of history , what it illustrates is the difficulty of specifying what is to count as data beyond saying that it is whatever material that researchers need to work with in order to pursue their inquiries . |
| 21 | All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS . |
| 22 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |
| 23 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 24 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 25 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 26 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 27 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 28 | Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason . |
| 29 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 30 | It has been a rough week down at Eurotunnel as you might imagine . |