Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open . |
| 2 | In the majority , however , this is the task of the account executive , whose job it is to take the client 's brief , ask the appropriate questions , and translate the brief into clear objectives for the creative team to work to . |
| 3 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 4 | After them come the foragers whose job it is to collect the spoils and carry them in the great baggage train . |
| 5 | Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town . |
| 6 | whose job it is to make the decision about how to deal with it . |
| 7 | We talked about what a bitch of a job it is to change a radiator on a Mini . |
| 8 | In a traditional ‘ non-contact ’ competition without padding or restrictions , save that the opponents must never actually touch , each bout lasts roughly three minutes and is overseen by three judges whose job it is to study the accuracy and intended force of each blow . |
| 9 | He said there was a person , famous throughout the land , whose job it was to visit the halls where films were being shown and to describe the films to the local people . |
| 10 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ said Lucifer 's daughter ( whose job it was to foot the ladder ) . |
| 12 | He 's not from our way but John Reynolds of Swindon is … and he 's the man who 's job it was to string the champion 's rackets … here 's Erika Barnes to serve |
| 13 | Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned . |
| 14 | This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour . |
| 15 | At the Health Complexes they would be distributed to the inpatient and outpatient departments and also to field workers whose job it was to distribute the packets to anyone who required them in his/her village . |
| 16 | What a joy it is to find a press pack that is genuinely unusual , interesting , witty , self-deprecating or even just plain mad . |
| 17 | I 'd forgotten what a joy it is to have a girl-friend . |
| 18 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 19 | These include forms or production and commerce and the demands of profit , the interests of and constraints on manufacture , design , marketing and advertising , whose role it is to create the images of industrial goods in relation to specified target populations , and the interests of and constraints on the consumer population , who use and in their turn manipulate the meaning of these forms through differential selection , placement , use and association . |
| 20 | Endless afternoon teas when we discussed giving mugs of hot chocolate to needy children at Christmas time or whose turn it was to do the flowers in the Maternity Hospital . |
| 21 | What a relief it is to know the name of the instrumentalist or conductor concerned and to listen to a programme of records where music takes precedence over ‘ talk for talk 's sake ’ . |
| 22 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 23 | In this case it was to play the symphony as Shostakovich might have imagined it in his dreams . |
| 24 | As the purpose of teaching is to produce a planned change in students , it is essential that those whose responsibility it is to produce the change should be clear not only about their intentions but about the assumptions on which those intentions are based . |
| 25 | And in focusing on some problem areas it 's possible to fail to give an impression of the enormous privilege it is to serve the church and her lord in social responsibility . |
| 26 | He would have understood , too , the presence at Norman and Angevin courts of clerks whose function it was to extol the deeds of their princes . |
| 27 | Sergeant laughed , too , and thought what a pleasant thing it was to have a flock of fun-loving ducks for friends . |
| 28 | I do n't know if you realize what hell it is to leave the life one leads , and go to a new city where one knows no-one and nowhere to go . |
| 29 | He looked to be in his early-to-mid-fifties , and was running to fat , and when he took off his topee it was to wipe the sweat from a pink , bald head . |
| 30 | For parents , whose duty it is to educate the family in the proper and responsible use of the audiovisual media , that they may enlighten and guide their children in the appreciation of wholesome audio and video cassettes . |