Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pers pn] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Prince it was the beginning of a love affair . |
| 2 | Throughout the EEC it is the rule for patients with sexually transmitted diseases to attend a private doctor for their diagnosis and treatment , and these private practitioners do not report the cases that they have seen . |
| 3 | It 's not it 's not the point of the money it 's the fact is that they 've lied to me erm and really I want =em . |
| 4 | Warner Bros had once again profitably combined instruction and entertainment but as was so often the case it was the way in which they had used an actor that made the movie work in both respects . |
| 5 | But in Lebanon we do n't have vows , they have like kind of contract , and if the if they broke the contract it 's the bride and groo , the groom have to pay that amount of money for the the bride , even if it was her fault . |
| 6 | It should be clear now that whereas for Marx it is one 's economic class position ( crucially how one relates to productive property ) that determines much else in one 's life , for the Functionalist it is the status one has established through developing marketable skills and the value put on them by society that determines one 's life chances . |
| 7 | According to the gossip he was the Scapegoat in the Wheel on Saturday night . |
| 8 | The theory is that only the maternal chromosomes permit a viable egg to develop in the hybrid ; in the mule this is the horse set , while in the hinny it is the donkey . |
| 9 | For the Shavante , the essence of manhood is what Maybury-Lewis ( 1971 : 268–9 ) summarizes as ‘ sexual bellicosity ’ , while for the Piaroa it is the ability to co-operate tranquilly with others in daily life . |
| 10 | From end to end , the curve of mountain wall which faces you occupies a full 180 degrees , and measures all but nine miles along the crest ; but even more than the width it is the depth that awes one at Gavarnie , because the cirque is very deep , with an average drop from crest to valley floor of 5,500 feet . |
| 11 | For the conservative-historians it was the Profumo affair that most forcefully illustrated the altered circumstances that 1960s Britain found itself in . |
| 12 | you 've got , there 's the queen she 's the head of the country |
| 13 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 14 | Ever since the days of Noah 's swimming regattas , the common feature of all sports has been the requirement for physical fitness and the general rule that the fitter you are the better you will perform . |
| 15 | Just over the aisle it 's the seaside , complete with botanist , David Bellamy in full flow . |
| 16 | No , for the moment they are the Government and they will be at Maastricht , so let us find out what they will do in three weeks . |
| 17 | Er yes current position er at the moment I 'm the licence training manager for brewery and I 've held that position for five and a half years . |
| 18 | In the early days of the war it was the practice for all staff to take shelter on the ‘ alert ’ , but loss of production time demanded a better system , and late in 1940 , a ‘ spotter ’ was detailed to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent . |
| 19 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 20 | As with the tiger it is the male 's warning to rivals to stay off its home range . |
| 21 | Charlie was an employee like everyone else , but in the absence of the owners he was the man at the top … all the responsibility , almost none of the rakeoff . |
| 22 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |
| 23 | The dough it 's the dough boy ! |
| 24 | For the crew it 's the end of three hard days and nights , but at least they can now sit back and leave it to the performers . |
| 25 | Because of people like Alan Sillitoe ( it says on the back he was the son of a labourer ) . |
| 26 | On the one hand it is nothing and asks for nothing , on the other it is the secret and silent source of the destruction of everything . |
| 27 | On the one hand it makes no demands , he wrote , on the other it is the vitriol which corrodes everything with which it comes into contact , the Gorgon which turns to stone all who gaze upon it . |
| 28 | But on the whole I was the receiver , not the giver of advice . |
| 29 | And in the finish it was the hole everyone will probably remember as the one which finally sealed Greg 's win . |
| 30 | People who work in a particular business tend to read the relevant trade and technical press , whether in the UK it be The Grocer , Marketing , Electronics Weekly , the British Baker , or whatever . |