Example sentences of "[be] beat [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're beaten by the vibration . ’ |
| 2 | That 's the difference between arts and science , because you 've actually got something there you can look at and study , so you 're talking about facts , whereas in the arts side it 's all airy-fairy and you 're beating about the bush a lot . |
| 3 | McKay collected points on all five climbs in yesterday 's stage and can not now be beaten for the overall mountains title . |
| 4 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |
| 5 | A single Troy ounce can be beaten into a sheet a hundred feet square and only of an inch thick . |
| 6 | A malleable metal can be beaten into a sheet whereas a ductile metal can be drawn out into a wire . |
| 7 | However , it looks as though Grand Met 's bid is going to be beaten by a management buyout which is in the final stages of negotiation . |
| 8 | Despite her desolation , Nora Simpson was not the sort of woman to be beaten by a twist of fate . |
| 9 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 10 | Narain Dutt Tewari of Uttar Pradesh could be a contender if he wins the state election being held alongside the parliamentary one ; but he may be beaten by the BJP . |
| 11 | K : ‘ A lot of it is determination not to be beaten by the system . |
| 12 | Gardeners , some of whom had seen much of their life 's work destroyed before their very eyes , refused to be beaten by an aberration of nature . |
| 13 | There is now a good chance that he will be beaten in the run-off next Sunday unless he can persuade enough first-round abstentionists to turn out to support him . |
| 14 | Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder . |
| 15 | Some of Gladstone 's fellow competitors obviously could n't care less about being beaten into the minor placings , but fellow breeders were more forthcoming . |
| 16 | Now , when Tallis listened hard , she could hear a drum being beaten as a warning . |
| 17 | A lawyer and former oilfield worker , he was head of government for nine years in the 1950s and 1960s under British colonial rule before being beaten at the polls by a charismatic rival , Mr Eric Gairy . |
| 18 | Egyptians have recent memories of being beaten at the hands of western-backed armies . |
| 19 | ‘ Saucy trollop ! ’ was the only retort , accompanied by the hollow slap of gravy being beaten with a wooden spoon . |
| 20 | Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er |
| 21 | Some witnesses to the incident , however , claimed that Garcia was unarmed and was fired upon while being beaten on the ground . |
| 22 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 23 | I won second prize , being beaten by a boy named Bryant , who the following month emigrated with his family to South Africa . |
| 24 | The memories of yesterday 's little discussion with Clint about Japanese prostitutes and not being able to get it up , and how the idea of being beaten by a fat old bint could be quite appealing ‘ as long as there were no electrodes ’ — it 's kind of the norm by now . |
| 25 | The London middleweight Rod Douglas , who has been in hospital since being beaten by the British champion Herol Graham two weeks ago , is expected to leave hospital ‘ in a week or so ’ , according to his manager Mickey Duff , who said last night : ‘ He is going to make a complete recovery . |
| 26 | I also hated being beaten by the wind and was frustrated by my lack of progress . |
| 27 | The Army team 's last hope in the Inter-Service Championship disappeared at Aldershot last week when they lost 2–0 to the Royal Navy , after being beaten by the R.A.F. the week before . |
| 28 | However he must understand the indignity Leeds fans suffered during eight seasons being beaten by the likes of Shrewsbury and even ( gulp ) Bradford City . |
| 29 | Once a way of beating the British winter it 's now being beaten by the upsurge in all-weather pitches outside . |
| 30 | Everton boss Howard Kendall bought Rideout after being beaten in the chase for £1 million hitman Dublin by Alex Ferguson . |