Sentences with phrase «not solitary acts»

This making is not a solitary act but collaborative, with the «amazing» specialist subcontractors at Tate Britain, or the mason who spent 18 months working out how to make the St Gallen chancel work, or clients such as the Tate and Hirst, or the «very special people we have in the office».

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I believe that he attempted to recover some of these canvases, and to my certain knowledge, one moonlit night, would have stolen back a portrait of Mrs Euphemia Urquart of Woodside Terrace, Glasgow, had not he been interrupted in the act of forcing a water - closet window by the Urquarts» butler, who (apparently cut short in solitary labours of his own) had been sitting in the dark; and who - despite the handicap of having his trousers at his ankles - grasped the intruder's shoulders as they emerged beneath the sash.