Example sentences of "[art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recognised the truest limits of the medium in which he worked , never allowed technical virtuosity to have the better of the central aim of significant composition , and established a balanced style which remains the most perfect model of the line-engraver 's art . |
| 2 | The better things presumed to be in store for Glasser when he went off as a scholarship boy to a glamorous university in the South of England are , in a sense , the subject of Gorbals Boy at Oxford , his second volume of autobiography . |
| 3 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 4 | Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better . |
| 5 | But the less elaborate you can be the better . |
| 6 | Has all the tedious public work you have done made you any the better ? |
| 7 | Being technically aware of your body is very important and the more drama school does about that the better . |
| 8 | In the ensuing debate , Alan Shatter , TD of Fine Gael , author of a book on family law , pointed out the better provision being made under the projected divorce law for a first wife than existed at present , and that children of the first marriage would maintain their present rights , though they would have to share with children of the second marriage . |
| 9 | We will see , wrote Harsnet , whether he parts with it or not , whether his greed gets the better of his sentimentality . |
| 10 | The slower the better , he wrote , since one of the problems is the speed with which it could all be over . |
| 11 | The sooner you get it out of here the better , I said , wrote Harsnet . |
| 12 | Reality , in York as elsewhere , means precious little public protection for our pubs and heavy reliance on the better nature of the brewers credit — brewers such as Samuel Smith 's , for for their loving and appropriately ‘ benign neglect ’ of a low-barrelage , unpretentious gem like The Wellington Inn in Alma Terrace , York . |
| 13 | The fewer people there are to argue about which channel to watch , the better , I should think . ’ |
| 14 | Here you will need to reduce the airbrake to continue the float and then , as you get to the better ground , to re-open them to make the landing . |
| 15 | The more openly you and your doctor can talk together , the better the service he or she will be able to give you . |
| 16 | The conversation moves on , all the better for the comment , not infrequently the gayer for it . |
| 17 | You will discover , especially with the better players , that particular drills are valuable in ironing out their weaknesses . |
| 18 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 19 | The protein content of food varies considerably , and the following are average values for some of the better sources . |
| 20 | Indeed the more imaginative and fun the better . |
| 21 | The longer the treatment continues , the better the results — but it is heavy on your vet 's time and an appropriately heavy hole will appear in your bank balance ! |
| 22 | When the patient is removed there is a dramatic change for the better ! |
| 23 | One thinks rather the better of Phyllis Bottome for wanting to believe that what had to happen could in fact have been averted . |
| 24 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 25 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 26 | But so much the better ; not every 80-year-old survives an entirely new experience so succesfully . |
| 27 | Burrows makes me feel slightly less guilty , and the less guilt , the better - for me and the children . |
| 28 | Latymer had taken the lead after 10 minutes but , despite playing the better football throughout , were beaten by two scrambled goals from Rodney Walshe , one just before half-time and the other 30 seconds from the end . |
| 29 | The better of them were for viola alone , including Brian Cherney 's Shekhinah , in its first performance : this alternates furious tremolando , sudden violent attack , and wistful melody , invented or quoted . |
| 30 | You only had to compare the opening version of Zobi la Mouche ( lumpy drums and shuddering halts ) with the neatly turned performance eventually wheeled out as an encore , to realise how this is a machine which runs the better for being well-oiled . |