Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Afshan Begum explains in her thesis ‘ In many cases parents expect that the girl will , whenever they demand , give up everything ( e.g. a course in further education or training or a career ) and submit without question to a marriage they have arranged for her … these hidden cases which no one gets to hear about are the real tragedies . ’ |
| 2 | What you 're aiming for are the receding depths of the river concealing its greater mysteries , while your fish flirt unawares in the foreground … |
| 3 | But because they have to leave by 10pm , all they have time for are the basic tasks , such as cooking dinner , feeding Elaine , taking off her make-up and getting her ready for bed . |
| 4 | What we are slowly making our way towards are the pictorial consequences of Rosenberg 's nothingness and the fatality . |
| 5 | Unikix , acquired back in January by Bull 's US systems integration arm , Integris , is expected to boost the group 's drive towards being an out-and-out systems integrator . |
| 6 | But beyond all this , Malham goes about its business of being a living Dales village , with its farms and farmers , its village hall and little shops , very much in the way it has always done . |
| 7 | The slit mechanism between the camera and the artwork , instead of being a few inches long , had to be about six feet ( 1.8m ) long . |
| 8 | And since the unconscious can be approached most nearly through unmeasurable , unrepeatable events in the analytic situation , psychoanalysts , even more than other psychologists , retain for themselves the power of being the only subjects able to explain subjectivity . |
| 9 | Under the influence of Cézanne , Picasso 's work becomes once again more purely painterly , and these figures , though still simple and often clumsy and awkward in appearance , never give the impression , as did so many of the paintings of the Negroid phase , of being the pictorial counterparts of wooden sculptures . |
| 10 | The honour of being the first Hearts player to captain Scotland since Dave Mackay in the Fifties was tarnished for Craig Levein when he gifted Germany the opening goal of the game after 19 minutes . |
| 11 | The Lions fell behind after 10 minutes before centre Jeremy Guscott had the distinction of being the first Lions ' scorer of the tour in the 24th minute . |
| 12 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 13 | English fans have at the moment , the reputation of being the top boys in Europe , and there will be others from Holland , Germany and erm let's face it , also Italy who 'll be out to knock them off their pedestal . |
| 14 | Scottish women have spent a great deal of time discussing the pros and cons of being an older women , but what 's it like being young in Scotland in nineteen ninety two ? |
| 15 | All I could think of were the smelly corridors , the dirty waiting room with cigarette butts all over the floor , the stares of the officers , the bunches of keys at their waists . |
| 16 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 17 | All she was left with were the three pubs . |
| 18 | A protocell probably came into being a few hours after the formation of proteins . |
| 19 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 20 | And all they catch me with is a few DFs . |
| 21 | What Cable has equipped us with is a theoretical metrics with challenging things to say about poetic competence : metrics , as he puts it ( p. 65 ) , " is not about orthography and written texts apprehended by the eye but about mental structures " . |
| 22 | I think probably , what we could do with is a some criteria as to what what complaints are going to go to the complaint examiner if we 've only got one of them . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the tragedies we have to deal with is the large numbers of young Scots who leave school unable to read , write or add up . |
| 24 | What the sociology of knowledge became concerned with was the social processes that interfered with the production of true knowledge . |
| 25 | And when people like Michael Bilington from the Guardian comes here what they are interested in are the Irish shows , not the visiting productions which they can see anytime . |
| 26 | What I want to concentrate upon are the different models used in order to explain basic theological terms . |
| 27 | The reasons for this flexibility are that little party capital is made out of these alterations and since the Treasury fears forestalling , it is held that there c ; in be no prior negotiations about tax changes with outside interests . |
| 28 | Linda Wolfe is , apart from being a trained children 's nurse and midwife , a mother of three young children and two older step-children . |
| 29 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 30 | Erm but you get some circuits where the only thing you 're interested in is the tiny deviations from Ohm 's Law . |