Example sentences of "if at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-François Briant cuts sheets of steel into more or less identifiable natural forms , leaves with veins incised into openings , ears of corn , vegetable silhouettes which slide imperceptibly towards representations of objects as if at every fold and cut the metal allowed one to read into it fragments of history , of a previous life . |
| 2 | ‘ Given a relation R , the attribute B is said to be functionally dependent on attribute A if at every instant of time each value of A has no more than one value of B associated with it in the relation R. ’ |
| 3 | Whatever else may or may not be happening in your life , the seeds of success are being planted in 1993 and , if at no other time , between November 13-15 you may get a hint of what they are . |
| 4 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , if at a later date someone should wish to cure the horse of such a bad habit they will find it difficult to do so . |
| 6 | Methodists , likewise , were being gathered up into what the veteran Congregational leader , J. Guinness Rogers , called ‘ the general intellectual movement of the generation ’ , even if at a slower pace . |
| 7 | are — as if at a Brecht play — bereft of secure containment within illusion , and forced to take responsibility , conceptually at least , for the reshaping of reality beyond the page . |
| 8 | So , if at a later stage in development , such as after gastrulation , the region that will form the eye is grafted to the belly region of the frog embryo , on this occasion it continues to develop there as an eye . |
| 9 | In this way , the learner will gain confidence , and this goes a long way to promoting safe practice if at a later time adequate guidance and support are lacking . |
| 10 | From the mound , he heard voices of people singing , as if at a banquet . |
| 11 | Theirs is a perfectly good decision that need only become a problem if at a later stage they find that it has become too difficult to share their life and a potential relationship disintegrates through their selfishness . |
| 12 | At last , as if at a secret signal , people leave off their fur hats . |
| 13 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 14 | Meredith in the high flow of his talk would describe anybody of whatever age or sex as ‘ gentlemen ’ as if at a council meeting . |
| 15 | Then , as if at a given signal , they all take flight and head across the voe to their roosting places in the sea caves , where they spend the night , dry if not very warm ! |
| 16 | as if at a prearranged signal a chant began high up in the gallery : ‘ Fascism means Murder ! |
| 17 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer will expect to be a member of the Cabinet Committee considering important legislation in any field , including criminal justice , although if at a particular meeting the main Treasury interest lies in resource costs the Chief Secretary to the Treasury might go in his place . |
| 18 | Even if at a conscious level people think that of course that was a patriarchal age , and we now live in certain respects in a more enlightened age , the metaphors and symbols which are present will be impressed on people 's minds . |
| 19 | as if at a signal , nine silver-helmed figures stepped from the forest and stood round the edge of the glade , spears glinting in the gloom . |
| 20 | Between 1957 and 1967 eight times as many such collections appeared as in the previous decade , and thereafter the flow continued , if at a slower rate . |
| 21 | Speaking brightly to close the gaps , as if at a party ) : So it 's getting near Christmas . |
| 22 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 23 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 24 | If at a higher speed then reduce to the required figure before commencing descent . |
| 25 | Her crew lined up on deck as gravely as if at a business meeting . |
| 26 | Grant looks this way and that , as if at a junction . |
| 27 | If at a time before the end of the relevant period any property ceases to be property subject to a reservation , the donor shall be treated for the purposes of the inheritance tax legislation as having at that time made a disposition of the property by way of a potentially exempt transfer ( s102(3) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 28 | If at an arbitrary point ( say V ) we decided to decrease the current , B would decrease in a different manner , as shown in Fig. 3.10 . |
| 29 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 30 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |