Example sentences of "be the story " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season . |
| 2 | Herstory is an excellent word , pointing out with wit and elegance that history has too often been the story of men 's lives ; wimmin might be applauded as a useful piece of spelling reform if someone other than feminists had invented it . |
| 3 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 4 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 5 | What had prompted the feeling had been the story he 'd told her about his grandfather and his link with G.W. Fashions . |
| 6 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 7 | If it has to tell a story , he wrote , it will be the story of the machine inside the ghost , of the ghost animated by the machine . |
| 8 | That seems to be the story of hi-jacking . |
| 9 | The second theme would be the story of these new nations , the Germanic kingdoms whose foundations were laid during the years from about 400 to 600 ad . |
| 10 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 11 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 12 | I suppose the most striking illustration of this would be the story of the divorce tracts . |
| 13 | His commentary is all about the past , the very distant past , of Phoenicians and Romans , Assyrians and crusaders — as if the modern history of Lebanon were the story of tourism . |
| 14 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 15 | How is the story to be unfolded ? ls use to be made of the strictly ordered oldfashioned scènes and pas d'action , variations and/or divertissements ? |
| 16 | The book is a stampede , faithful to its title and its Epigraph which is the story of the Gadarene swine possessed by devils and rushing into the lake of Galilee and drowning themselves . |
| 17 | Then there is the story of the man who , as a young law student , fled across the border from the East and now , some 40 years later , has woven the deal which brought another 15,000 , many of them the age he was then , to the West . |
| 18 | This is the story of Flt Sgt R H Middleton , RAAF , who was posthumously awarded the VC following a raid on Turin while captaining a Stirling of No 149 Squadron . |
| 19 | This is the story of the Bristol Blenheim that was so painstakingly restored by Graham Warner and his team of enthusiasts , only to be destroyed so soon afterwards in a crash . |
| 20 | The author says in the Foreward that this is the story of a very ordinary RAF General Duties Officer and Pilot . |
| 21 | Below is the story of a Bengali family in the East End who did not ( Guardian 6.6.77 ) : |
| 22 | It is the story of a philologist ( said to be loosely based on Tolkien , but in fact fairly unlike him : Tolkien recognized some of his own opinions and ideas Lewisified in the character ) who , by a series of mishaps on a walking tour , comes to a house where two sinister scientists , Weston and Devine , are planning a visit to outer space . |
| 23 | In Other Words — David Bowie , is the story of David Bowie , documented in a diverse range of perspectives from actors , musicians , producers , directors and friends , connected with his life and work . |
| 24 | THE story of Deng Xiaoping is the story of China 's 20th-century revolutions . |
| 25 | ‘ Titmuss Regained ’ is the story of how Titmuss , like the present Conservative party , attempts to go green . |
| 26 | The other is the story of Melvin Van Peebles , father of Mario . |
| 27 | Called ‘ The Late Starter ’ , it is the story of a retired professor , Edward Brett . |
| 28 | On one level Affliction is the story of how a man named Wade Whitehouse , living in a New Hampshire milltown , comes to be a murderer . |
| 29 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 30 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |