Example sentences of "works that [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The organisers stress that the choice of exhibits has been governed by the time and place of execution of the works that brought the artists into the limelight before World War I. Between 1905 and 1914 , in Dresden , Munich and Berlin the ‘ key figures of the modern movement ’ of the title Heckel , Kirchner , Schmidt-Rottluff , Pechstein , Mueller , Nolde , Jawlensky , Kandinsky , Marc , Macke , Klee , Münter , Werefkin and Meidner were the driving force behind Expressionism .
2 And the women responded with works that suited New Hall 's commitment to women 's education , even when they had no connection themselves to the university or the college .
3 It is not uncommon to seek a renegotiation of the price , after a survey report has been received that lists certain works that require attention .
4 ‘ The limitations on artists who wish to make works that respond to the contemporary world of existing mass media images will be very confining indeed ’ , one critic warned .
5 In the 1950s , the flourishing Society decided to add the acquisition of art and antiquities to its activities , and began an omnivorous phase , accepting and pursuing works that had virtually no connection with its founders ' goals .
6 Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’
7 It was a combination of the determination of groups of older people and the active support from local works that enabled the organisation to develop .
8 Critics of the NEA were quick to note that both contained works that depict genitalia , but Ms Radice should be safe from prosecution , for she stated only that the shows were ‘ unlikely to have the long-term artistic significance necessary to merit endowment funding ’ .
9 These highly professional artists presented popular programmes of light opera and semi-classical works that seemed to please the thousands who flocked to hear the concerts .
10 The range should include some works that make demands on the reader in terms of content or length or organisation or language .
11 The range should include some works that make demands on the reader in terms of content or length or organisation or language .
12 The range should include some works that make demands on the reader in terms of content or length or organisation or language .
13 Accordingly , teachers need to choose books in such a way that all pupils have the opportunity to learn how to understand and enjoy works that make manageable but increasing demands upon them .
14 From the unearthing of traditional feminine skills like sewing to works that emphasise the everyday , the domestic existence of women , the debate about gender specific notions of culture continues .
15 For the latter catalogue Barr chose the Surrealist writer Georges Hugnet to write a historical essay , but it was Barr 's intelligent advocacy and choice of works that made the show such a significant affair .
16 In this practice there is a parallel with Dutch work , for like the 30 km/h zone experiments in Holland , though these avoid the use of sophisticated Woonerf-style street furniture , they still attempt to incorporate the infrastructural works that increase the driver 's perception of the need for slow-speed behaviour .
17 This is not through any lack of distinction on the part of the writers of the time or those of their works that show the Greek influence ; nor is there any lack of such works .
18 The result of this hunger could simply be that opera houses survive the dog days of Thatcherism with full houses for Carmen etc. , or it could be the creation of new works that express and mirror the social and political needs of our culture in opera 's emotive language .
19 Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ) was just one of the major works that heralded a new way of doing philosophy : the beginning of that critical rationality that Sir Karl Popper so admired and saw as a turning-point in the history of ideas .
20 Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too .
21 Like most works that over-reach themselves by striving for unattainable seriousness they are probably simply bad .
22 ‘ In the end the collection we had at home was mainly classical because those were the works that did n't sell very well .
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