Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 2 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 3 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 4 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 5 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 6 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 7 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 9 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 10 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 11 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , it has been for the last hour . ’ |
| 13 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 14 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 15 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 16 | The figures that I read out are for the first year . |
| 17 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 18 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 19 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 20 | Categories are as the last competition i.e. HUMAN PORTRAITURE , PICTORIAL , LANDSCAPES , FLORA AND FAUNA , ARCHITECTURE/BUILDINGS/RECORD AND ANY PRINT ( the latter is for exhibitors not having previously won a prize ) . |
| 21 | Truman indicated late in 1945 that the United States would not be a passive bystander in the Middle and Near East as it had been after the First World War . |
| 22 | It must have been after the last job we did for you . ’ |
| 23 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 24 | The first law permits us to unnest IFs , so that all arguments are of the first type . |
| 25 | Most of the brighter stars plotted are of the second magnitude , while the fainter ones are of the fourth . |
| 26 | Most of the brighter stars plotted are of the second magnitude , while the fainter ones are of the fourth . |
| 27 | Scientists talk in terms of ‘ generations ’ of computers , and the most advanced of the machines in operation at the moment are of the fourth generation . |
| 28 | But you ca n't , it 's just impossible , cos you live in the ar , you know Green , you 're like a second class citizen , you know . |
| 29 | Yeah we 're onto the next area |
| 30 | Several Manchester United players likely to be involved as well and they 're into the second half of their second leg European cup tie in Turkey . |