Example sentences of "if in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , in this way if in no other , the English ideal of the artist as amateur has a continuing validity — and one that it behoves us , as Poundians , to acknowledge more often than we do . |
| 2 | In that sense , if in no other , I have felt these past weeks rather like a dentist . |
| 3 | In this respect if in no other , the story of this speaker is akin to the Ariston CD3 story , related above . |
| 4 | If in no other sense than economic , the world 's focus had switched from East to West , from Greenwich to the Date Line , from Atlantic to Pacific . |
| 5 | In this ethnographic imperialism if in no other way , the cultures anthropologists study and plagiarize gain their revenge . |
| 6 | They were new colonies which were produced by the existing colonies , even if in no friendly spirit , and the possibility that colonies could produce new colonies was likely to make the task of the government in London even harder if it ever tried to impose a unified colonial policy . |
| 7 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 8 | In this respect if in no other the concept of the family as a more or less stable institution is becoming an impossible one . |
| 9 | One did not use the word cocky of such as Paul Lane , but it did cross Coffin 's mind , if in no unfriendly spirit . |
| 10 | I have tried to do that year in , year out because I believe that in environmental terms — if in no others — keeping people , their sheep and their cattle in the hillsides is essential if the hillsides are to be kept as they should be . |
| 11 | He had made no attempt to pursue the fleeing secretary and was sitting as if in a trance staring somewhere between the chairs occupied by the new Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 12 | One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy . |
| 13 | Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . |
| 14 | as if in a slow motion sequence from a Peckinpah film I see the torpedoes escape from the box , turn head over tail as they rise , reach their zenith , and begin falling again , towards the heads and shoulders of the youths in front . |
| 15 | If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men . |
| 16 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 17 | Warm the leek timbales in a steamer ( or microwave if in a plastic mould ) . |
| 18 | as if in a trance , Vincent got in and sat down beside him . |
| 19 | ‘ Our island will be as if in a state of war ’ one senior official was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 20 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 21 | Gazzer fell back on his most trusted and tried routine : if in a tight comer , joke your way out . |
| 22 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 23 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 24 | We floated on as if in a timeless limbo . |
| 25 | Elegant actions that take in the other as if in a warm embrace , polished gestures , considerate words and wit in conversation , the depth of culture and intellect that underlie one 's words and actions — such are the requirements of a true lady . ’ |
| 26 | But in spite of her slightly forbidding looks , Mrs Webster was kind , if in a rather unimaginative way . |
| 27 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 28 | But in the sphere of education , the concept would appear still to be flourishing , even if in a somewhat limited form , as stated above . |
| 29 | They were saved , of course , by the Mastodon , ‘ rowing as if in a race ’ , just in time for a grand battle between Swallows , Amazons and Eels , and a corroboree of triumph . |
| 30 | He had , however , and deliberately , put these words away as if in a cupboard . |