Example sentences of "was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dere was nu stopping some |
| 2 | An dere was nu sign of de devastation yet fe come . |
| 3 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 4 | This was the beginning of ACET . |
| 5 | Amnesty International was the recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Peace . |
| 6 | His was the first reported execution in several months for an offence related to the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 7 | Professional fundraisers utilize the powerful medium of advertising in their national press , an advertisement issued by the British Section in autumn 1990 about Iraq 's treatment of Kurds and its human rights record over a decade , was the most successful advertisement ever run by the Section . |
| 8 | Open racism in court may continue throughout the trial : one defendant was defended by an attorney who regularly used the term ‘ nigger ’ to describe his client and , it later transpired , was the local Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 9 | More promising was the inauguration in January 1991 of a Commission of Enquiry into new cases of ‘ disappearance ’ . |
| 10 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 11 | Harold Wilson was the first to reply — by return post . |
| 12 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 13 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 14 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 15 | The extreme of critical judgement is to destroy the work concerned , as bulldozers destroyed a Russian exhibition of experimental art in 1974 ; or to forbid an artist to work , as was the practice in National Socialist Germany , where another form of criticism was used in 1937 by making an exhibition of art to be repudiated by its visitors . |
| 16 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |
| 17 | Her particular target for attack was the formalist interpretation of abstract art by Clement Greenberg . |
| 18 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 19 | This ‘ difficulty ’ was the moral center of his art , the very fulcrum of his style . |
| 20 | Wolfe puts his argument as follows : ‘ What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of the New York Times saying : In looking at a painting today , ‘ to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial ’ . |
| 21 | It was the eternal noise at that bend in the river , but on a normal day it could n't be heard here . |
| 22 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 23 | That was the split … ’ |
| 24 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 25 | Theirs was the charm of not being bourgeois , and the foreigners among them could be , or could come across as , princes , pretenders to a throne , descendants of a khan . |
| 26 | A man , back from Spain , addresses her in tones that approximate to what the Independent thought was the ‘ well-educated voice ’ , and to what the Guardian thought was the ‘ assured accent ’ , transmitted by the Intelligence chief responsible for the shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar which preceded the arrival of the novel . |
| 27 | A man , back from Spain , addresses her in tones that approximate to what the Independent thought was the ‘ well-educated voice ’ , and to what the Guardian thought was the ‘ assured accent ’ , transmitted by the Intelligence chief responsible for the shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar which preceded the arrival of the novel . |
| 28 | It was the taste of the stranger — who might at the same time be rooted , as he himself was , in some national life . |
| 29 | I think myself that this was the case , and that it scarcely makes him very different from many other hard-working people . |
| 30 | The starting point was the formation by Sir Herbert Tree of a training school at His Majesty 's Theatre , London , in 1904 . |