Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Chen 's company bowed to the inevitable and closed its doors . |
| 2 | The President 's special adviser on international affairs , Bradman Weerakoon , had promised on Dec. 12 that the government would consider recent recommendations made by the human rights organization Amnesty International , including extending the investigations of a presidential commission on the disappeared and publishing its final report . |
| 3 | In more anthropomorphic terms , it is as if one of the particles ‘ knows ’ what measurement is being carried out on the other and adjusts its state accordingly . |
| 4 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 5 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 6 | His wife Anne says that he DID drink in Saudi , but would never have committed the more serious offence of running a still and selling its produce . |
| 7 | The need to call police to sort out minor disturbances only skims the surface of a problem that does the name of the club no good and reduces its image to that of second rate . |
| 8 | The Company laid a main and supplied its own cottages from the tanks at Wolverton c1888 . |