Example sentences of "that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible that a sexually-transmitted infection might cause cancer of the cervix — especially if you 're under 20 . |
| 2 | You could covenant all your taxable income if you wished — remember though that a part of your total income will not be subject to tax , because of the various tax allowances you enjoy ( personal allowances , mortgage interest relief , etc . ) |
| 3 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 4 | However , it was disappointing that a new international instrument on ‘ disappearances ’ was held over for further study . |
| 5 | Similarly , the idea that a human rights concert should be held in the very stadium in Santiago where Allende 's officers rounded up thousands of Chileans in 1973 , prior to committing gross violations , stretches the powers of credulity . |
| 6 | Nowadays , impartiality need not be expressed quite so crudely , and a look at any group 's case load will show that a balance is always maintained . |
| 7 | Is the text or part of the text written so that a reader will benefit in a future encounter with a work of art ? |
| 8 | The advice offered here is that a reader should ignore what category of writing a book or article may come under , since helpful art criticism may be found in all sorts of sources . |
| 9 | He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times , careful to avoid hackneyed subjects . |
| 10 | Baudelaire argued for modernity , but he also strongly believed that a critic has the right to be partisan . |
| 11 | But , seeing that a fine picture is nature reflected by an artist , the criticism which I approve will be that picture reflected by an intelligent and sensitive mind . |
| 12 | This brief diversion into the cultural and political history of Germany , the USSR and China has been made to emphasise the way that a state may determine artistic production , and thence art criticism . |
| 13 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 14 | Paul Valéry wrote that a painter : |
| 15 | Here is a passage which shows that a survey can benefit from being used with other books ( even though three of the sculptures mentioned are illustrated by Janson ) . |
| 16 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 17 | A presenter , after all , knows that a viewer has the visual evidence to check on what is being said . |
| 18 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 19 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 20 | The reader can thus be aware that a writer may have written round what happens to have been offered . |
| 21 | The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page . |
| 22 | In the nineteenth century to say that a picture was poetic was a common term of praise . |
| 23 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |
| 24 | The idea that a price at auction is a definitive market price has even become quite generally accepted , although in fact auctions are subject to manipulation like other markets described by some economists as free . |
| 25 | When we do this , we find that a critic 's range of activities varies from place to place and period to period . |
| 26 | For this reason we have the feeling that a Braque jug is just as real and valid , just as much a distinct unity , as the jug that comes from the potter 's wheel . |
| 27 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 28 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 29 | Describing the object is not the only sort of description that a reader can expect from a critic . |
| 30 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |