Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 4 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 5 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 6 | Simple social skills like apologizing are given no place because the most important thing is not to lose face . |
| 7 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 8 | S. M. Qaim , CChem , FRSC , has been elected a foreign member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences . |
| 9 | Professor Peter Warren of the Classics Department has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Society for Cretan Historical Studies . |
| 10 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 11 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 12 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
| 13 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
| 14 | John Dellow , deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , has been elected the new president of the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 15 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 16 | HUGH Halcro Johnson , a farmer at Orphir , has been elected the vice-convener of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 17 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
| 18 | Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Pickering of the Department of Anatomy has been elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences . |
| 19 | Once that has been completed the scaffolding will be removed and the Banco di Roma will provide indefinitely for a team of gardeners and maintenance officers to keep the upper walls free of weeds that grow in the crevices , loosening small bits of masonry and concrete that are then dislodged by birds or lizards . |
| 20 | When the processing requested by a form has been completed the request form will be returned to the lexicographers with the Completion Confirmed on Date filled in by the New OED Computer Group . |
| 21 | After the operation has been completed the anaesthetic will be reversed and the patient 's normal control over respiration re-established . |
| 22 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 23 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 24 | The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence . |
| 25 | There are so many works of art in the church that it has been declared a museum and is included as such on the official list of Milanese museums . |
| 26 | We are now entering the last decade of our century and of our millennium , which has been declared a ‘ Decade of Evangelism ’ . |
| 27 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 28 | Despite agreement some years ago that seven sites around Britain 's coast needed protection , only one — Lundy Island — has been declared a Marine Nature Reserve so far , writes Dr Madeleine Havard , WWF 's Marine Conservation Officer . |
| 29 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Castlemorton Common near Malvern in Worcester , invaded by 20,000 travellers last year , has been declared a no-go area by the Home Secretary . |