Example sentences of "be the [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one must of been the day the boys come up from school |
| 2 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 3 | When it comes to profiles and interviews , familiar names usually get the nod over the up-and-coming , partly because they are the ones the powers-that-be have heard of , and partly because the famous and/or notorious are what a less obsessive and more catholic readership wants to know about . |
| 4 | The lines most often used are the K a lines of Mg ( 1254 eV ) and Al ( 1487 eV ) . |
| 5 | Beatings , extortion , torture , rape and death are the tools the police employ . |
| 6 | Whatever , these are the people the publishers really want to nobble , and they do n't come to conference . |
| 7 | ‘ The geese are the reason the Floridians have never had much to do with humans , ’ the Thing continued . |
| 8 | But are the qualifications the students will get in Czechoslovakia up to standard . |
| 9 | The look : the smile : the tears occasionally : the promise of prayer : are the thanks the donors receive as the team deliver YOUR gifts to put Christ back into Christmas . |
| 10 | Landmines hidden in the dirt roads are the weapons the farmers hate most . |
| 11 | It must be the way the trees are shading out the sun . |
| 12 | In Scotland , early results suggested it would not be the massacre the Tories had feared . |
| 13 | The winners will be the businesses the judges feel have come closest to achieving these criteria . |
| 14 | ‘ Father , the night you stay back from the club will be the night the shops are on fire , both of them . ’ |
| 15 | You know so it 's it 's it 's six of one and half a dozen of the other really , but the company worker learns to be the guidelines the rules the routines of the company and er also really backs up the company line you know and what they 're doing for them really is for the company . |
| 16 | At least the days of Friday night being the night the neighbours report us to the NSPCC for malicious blinding of offspring with intent are over . |
| 17 | Most of the restoration has been on the exterior of the buildings ; most of the interiors are still as they were the day the Germans were defeated . |
| 18 | Of the Clubs in existence there were the Mohocles The Blasters , The Bucks , The Bloods and , most vile of all The Sons of Midnight . |
| 19 | And Keegan , who transfer-listed nine players in midweek , added : ‘ These kids were the reason the others went on the list . |
| 20 | That is the problem the planners must solve . ’ |
| 21 | It is the price the arts must inevitably pay for a higher political profile . |
| 22 | The first is the way the Conservatives have been able to sustain their vote at a consistently high level . |
| 23 | Gilman 's became the most impressive corporate collection of photographs ever assembled ( although mention should be made of the special achievement of the Canadian Centre for Architecture ) — but what is even more remarkable is the way the riches of the collection have been translated into the facsimile plates in this book , and thus into the great libraries of the world and the public domain . |
| 24 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a regular bus service from Monte Samana for the guests , but this is the way the natives come , straight over the hill . ’ |
| 26 | Consequently , their bedroom with its mattress on the floor and a black and white duvet looks spacious , verging on empty , but this is the way the Woolleys like to live now . |
| 27 | Now he thinks he can work it in , which I 'm pleased about because if this is the way the Indians react to me and Matt then maybe that 's a pointer to how the fans will go . |
| 28 | Another example is the way the women 's movement has ignored older women . |
| 29 | If that really is the way the authorities are now thinking — and ‘ readers ’ letters ' have long been notoriously close to official thinking in East Germany — then the government could find it is courting unprecedented disaster . |
| 30 | A more reliable determinant of age is the way the colours have changed ( p. 24 ) . |