Example sentences of "it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 2 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 3 | In other words , Braque divines the essential spirit — one might almost call it the ‘ soul ’ — of each object that he paints . |
| 4 | This brings with it the corollary that it is not always apparent whether the beliefs he expresses are Ackroyd 's or those of the writer to whom he is exposed , or both . |
| 5 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 6 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 7 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 8 | The focus of the design was the decorative bar and its back display area , whose strong lighting made it the centrepiece of the pub . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 10 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 11 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 12 | A moist but well-drained fertile soil in a warm sheltered corner will give it the best chance , and even then only in the mildest areas — and do not forget the slugs ! |
| 13 | But surely , she reasoned , where there could be no reason , surely sex does n't have to bring with it the pain of need , longing , the fear of rejection ? |
| 14 | Was it the sound of someone crying close at hand ? |
| 15 | The punching hip , be it the leading hip of a front punch or the trailing hip of a reverse punch , must swivel forwards , so that your centre-line directly faces the opponent . |
| 16 | Being a combat sport karate carries with it the risk of injury and the more you compete , the more likely you are to suffer injury . |
| 17 | Above it the Plough was tilted and he followed the line of the two stars at its end until he found the Pole Star . |
| 18 | And he said , It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery , neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome : but the noise of them that sing do I hear ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 20 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 21 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 22 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 23 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 24 | ‘ Make it the one with the hardest bed , ’ he responded . |
| 25 | Is it the right sort of party ? ’ |
| 26 | If the experimenter found it then he kept it , and if he did not find it the child got the chocolate . |
| 27 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 28 | Was it the nuns at school ? |
| 29 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 30 | But the present doctrine of competition is destroying it , and with it the picture of our Englishness . |