Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would not a more reasonable decision have been to fix the subscription at the direct debit level but offer a discount of £5.00 for payment say within 14 days of the due date ? |
| 2 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 3 | Her favourite method is to seduce the fellow at a ball , then lead him to the garden between dances — the gardener will later find the body which appears , strangely , to have been immersed in lake-water for many weeks . |
| 4 | The aim of the revised features is to up-date the scheme at the same time as maintaining a good balance between technical skills and design with the retention of a grading system . |
| 5 | Another variation on this is to hover the model at a constant heading and walk slowly round it ( Fig. 7.5 ) . |
| 6 | All you have to do to register your vote either ‘ for ’ , or ‘ against ’ the proposed change is to complete the form at the foot of the page and we will publish the findings in an upcoming issue . |
| 7 | All you have to do in this case is to stop the fraying at the cut by zig-zag stitch . |
| 8 | Perhaps the lesson for parents is to ignore the quarrel at the time ( if no harm is being caused ) but get both children together later on and discuss how they might have settled their differences . |
| 9 | George de la Tour 's ‘ Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player ’ , bought by Agnew 's at Christie 's on 13 December for £1,870,000 , is to join the collection at the Prado . |
| 10 | Sometimes called ‘ Sun Trap ’ houses , the idea behind them was to catch the sun at every angle . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 12 | However , the field approach was to surpass the action at a distance approach with Faraday 's discovery of electromagnetic induction and his invention of the electric motor , the dynamo and the transformer in the 1830s . |