Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] some of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 2 | The creamy bedroom carpet is echoed in the bathroom which has been furnished with some of the antique fixtures and fittings gleaned on Jake 's auction tours . |
| 3 | True marine conditions probably prevailed only in the north of the Fens but brackish conditions further south are witnessed by some of the fossils . |
| 4 | Citizens of Birmingham are treated to some of the finest displays of the North American golden rod to be seen in the country . |
| 5 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 6 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 7 | The nature and interrelationship between these entities is a difficult and debated subject , and readers are referred to some of the best-known texts on the subject . |
| 8 | Figure 3.4 shows the massive concentration of 25–44-year-olds to the north and west of London , in precisely those counties which have recently had substantial population increases and which are regarded as some of the most prosperous places in the country ( Champion et al . |
| 9 | All participating hotels boast their own golf courses , which are situated in some of the most beautiful parts of the country from Kent to Ayrshire . |
| 10 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 11 | The Imperial Engineers are technical innovators whose products are carried by some of the most unusual troops in the Imperial army . |
| 12 | References have been confined to some of the more significant primary sources and to secondary sources that readers may find particularly interesting or readable . |
| 13 | I am chilled by some of the things Sinead is coming out with nowadays . |
| 14 | EDUCATION chiefs in the Southern Education and Library Board have been stumped by some of the questions on the 11-plus exam ! |
| 15 | Any resulting sense of insecurity among the foreign communities may have been equalled in some of the upper reaches of the Iraqi establishment . |
| 16 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 17 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 18 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 19 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 20 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 21 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 22 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 23 | As er competition becomes even more fierce and er competitive and yeah well the threat of threat to the the weaknesses which are connected to some of the threats actually . |
| 24 | This is the second in our new series of twelve programmes on opportunities in education , in which we 're looking at some of the ideas in action in schools today . |
| 25 | Unless you 're going into some of the tenor erm and alto |
| 26 | However , the Commission did not find evidence of deaths having resulted from deliberate brutality by police or prison officers , as had been alleged by some of the victims ' families . |
| 27 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
| 28 | There are no objections to this application , though an alternative to the flat roof would have been preferred by some of the councillors . |
| 29 | The words " in relation to " referred to in the third limb do not appear in the section but it seems to the author that the reference to " any benefit to him by contract or otherwise " must relate in some way to the gifted property , and a conclusion along those lines seems to have been drawn in some of the old estate duty cases ( see Chick v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1958 ] AC 435 at 447 ) . |
| 30 | Bolts have also been used on some of the wilder walls of Cheddar Gorge to establish , bolts notwithstanding , some of the most challenging climbs in the region . |