Example sentences of "would be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Postscript evokes the aim of a white-coated Doctor Kundera ‘ to solve an aesthetic problem : how to write a novel which would be a ‘ critique of poetry ’ and yet at the same time would itself be poetry ’ . |
| 2 | Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream and Hamlet would be a good starting point — As You Like It , Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar you may already be familiar with , as they are often set for O level courses . |
| 3 | It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall . |
| 4 | Needless to say , any such denial of this would be a denial of the power of education as a whole to mature individuals in their intellectual and moral perceptions . |
| 5 | There comes a moment when you lose interest so totally that to touch it again would be a physical impossibility . |
| 6 | ‘ Choose to think that would be a reason for sending old Jack into the next world if you like , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be a pity if your wife got to know . |
| 8 | Admittedly I was depressed again — no , not depressed exactly , low would be a better word . |
| 9 | In executing what would be a normal stall recovery , any movement forwards will , or course , increase the pitching , thereby making the sensation more vivid and encouraging the pilot to think that the aircraft is not recovering . |
| 10 | It had been an end , where Jay had yearned to be sure — had been sure ? what a fool believes ? — it would be a beginning . |
| 11 | If James was right and they could count on contingents from every part of the strath , they would be a force indeed — a mass big enough to frighten the most assured gentleman . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be a sad thing , ’ Angus answered at once , ‘ if Alex was taken away from his Mary into the army when they were not a year married . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ Quiet Revolution ’ which was beginning to take place in Canada was now seizing Leonard himself ; he would be a poet-writer , and be would find a place for his music alongside it . |
| 14 | Besides , it would be a criminal waste of taxpayers ' money if I did nothing . |
| 15 | Tomorrow she would book another ride ; she would fit in a swim before breakfast , possibly before dinner as well ; and the day after that she would walk — thirty miles would be a reasonable target this time . |
| 16 | For some professionals price would be a secondary consideration . |
| 17 | Having spent much of the glorious summer last year sitting in the shade of the apple tree I decided that if such summers were to continue it would be a good idea to build a permanent seat around the tree . |
| 18 | ‘ I would be a very unwilling seller , that is the last resort as far as I am concerned . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 20 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 21 | Then the stance would only be ten feet away and perhaps there would be a hook placement ? |
| 22 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 23 | At £151.83 this would be a very useful tool to buy for those odd jobs about the house and garden . |
| 24 | Such explicitness would be a disaster in the novel , but it underlies the final text of the pub tirade like a geological substratum , and it reflects the great and growing importance of mystic suffering in Dostoevsky 's post-Siberian work . |
| 25 | That ‘ strange ’ which would be a lazy gesture in another novelist is indeed strange to the reader , strange as the feline , supremely observed young man himself ; and yet he feels the very muscles and skin-surface of Raskolnikov 's smile — a prelude to the way in which the book 's entire action is simultaneously read about and lived through . |
| 26 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 27 | The model , as I have said , would be a degree in music , and would include history and theory as well as analysis . |
| 28 | But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable . |
| 29 | It would be a criticism if I was doing it to impoverish myself ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be a serious mistake for them to believe that they could put the whole Taurus market place at jeopardy by cutting back on their Taurus budget . ’ |