Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he took a broad view of the duties and responsibilities of being a scientist in Peru . |
| 2 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 3 | The GIST team seemed to think that they could brush aside any anxieties about the difficulties of being a woman in science by presenting a series of bright , appealing images . |
| 4 | I did want to lose weight so much for it , but have had very little success so will have to get used to the idea of being the back-end-of-a-bus in comparison to Heather . |
| 5 | She leaned on the fence , wrapped her coat more closely round her body and tried to assimilate something of the tranquillity of the night , but all she could think of was the hurt in Barney 's eyes and the stiffness of his voice . |
| 6 | The purpose of this module is to provide the opportunity to explore questions of having and bringing up a family , to develop knowledge and skills in being a parent in areas selected on the basis of each individual 's needs and interests , and to help people enjoy being parents . |
| 7 | The people in prison are the only people you have — whatever problems you 've got , you know the only people you can talk to are the women in prison . |
| 8 | There are to be no improvements in consumer representation , simply because — I quote the same document : ’ It would be more difficult to secure the support of other Departments to a major change so soon after privatisation ’ . |
| 9 | I was n't going to be no whore in Nassau . |
| 10 | Salaries were to be increased by 9% , full London Weighting of £1776 to be given to all London staff , but there was to be no reduction in differentials . |
| 11 | There is to be no fertility in year of arrival then fertility as for remainder of population . |
| 12 | There appears to be no policy in relation to dementia either from the point of view of the sufferer or the problems that might follow for other owner-occupiers . |
| 13 | THERE would appear to be no future in Newcastle United 's courtship of Roy Aitken , the Celtic captain , following yesterday 's disapproval of the affair by Billy McNeill , manager of the Glasgow club . |
| 14 | There was to be no investment in lines to help rural passengers , many of whom were denied easy access to hospitals , doctors ' surgeries , pharmacies , dental facilities and leisure and recreation . |
| 15 | However , the languages of science and engineering have become so specialised that communication across the disciplines is difficult to achieve , but there seems to be no reason in principle why this must be so as the concepts are universal . |
| 16 | In recent years , it has become common for local political party caucuses to threaten to withdraw endorsement as candidates from Members who voice views unacceptable to them and there seems to be no reason in principle why this should not be treated by the House as a contempt the essence of which , in this respect , is to deny to a Member the freedom to exercise his power as a Member in the manner dictated by his own personal judgment . |
| 17 | Indeed there remains sufficient slack in some sections of the labour force and enough new technological innovations on the horizon for there to be no end in sight to the continuing reduction in the number of workers in the industry . |
| 18 | There had seemed , in the carriage ride from Bodmin , to be no snow in Cornwall , and the air when she stepped out in front of Aunt Emily 's door had a faint , sharp tang of salt , a whiff of the sea . |
| 19 | There appears to be no difference in substance between the procedures . |
| 20 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 21 | Other studies have also found a lower prevalence of high EE ( High Expressed Emotion in families is considered to be a factor in relapse of schizophrenia ) in Third World countries . |
| 22 | For instance past spending behaviour is always likely to be a factor in practice , with departments which have been reliable spenders more likely to be given funds than those who have been allocated money but not spent it . |
| 23 | He had been the Land Minister President in 1971-82 in Schleswig-Holstein , where his resignation from the federal government was expected to be a factor in elections in early April . |
| 24 | Nor is there likely to be a change in fashion which results in feet being accorded the same status , much in the way that bottoms were favoured in the ‘ sixties , crotches in the ‘ seventies and ankles or wasp waists in Victorian times . |
| 25 | Under Options for Change we could see there was going to be a reduction in defence expenditure . |
| 26 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 27 | ‘ This phone happens to be a call-box in Marylebone , ’ said Quinn , ‘ but you 're right not to trust it . |
| 28 | Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | The story that she has no artistic taste was shown to be a lie in January when a collection of her old-master paintings sold well at Christie 's in New York . |
| 30 | Whether the Ephesian disciples were Christians or not before Paul 's arrival — and the development of the story suggests that he finds they were not — Paul 's initial question still assumes that it is possible to be a believer in Jesus without receiving fully the Holy Spirit . |