Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the driver and pusher but have had a hip replacement which restricts the distance that I can push the wheelchair . |
| 2 | I am the fool that falls And never learns to wait and watch , Icarus eternally damned , the dupe of time … |
| 3 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 4 | There have always been the eccentrics and academics who have travelled the East only to return home to announce great spiritual discoveries . |
| 5 | The principal hunting weapon may have been the bow and arrow ; arrows , as with all tools , are rare in early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; they are often viewed as weapons of warfare but constitute the most obvious hunting weapon amongst the range of artefacts and their rarity in cemeteries may only be a reflection of their importance to the community . |
| 6 | It could have been the wife or daughter , wanting his money . |
| 7 | A major problem has been the complexity and variability of political objectives discussed earlier . |
| 8 | One of these promising directions has been the realisation that conservation is as much about social processes as physical ones , and that the major constraints are not technical ( in the agricultural engineering sense ) , but social . |
| 9 | An important factor in achieving this success has been the requirement that management should report progress against financial targets on a monthly basis to a Committee which I chair and also at regular meetings of the Board . |
| 10 | One of the major areas of historical research in recent years involving scholars from several countries has been the rise and decline of slavery in the Americas and its impact on the growth of the industrial societies bordering the north Atlantic . |
| 11 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |
| 12 | To speak differently , if e had not occurred , then even if there had also occurred any change x logically consistent with the absences of e and of cc , and consistent with the absences of links between cc and e , it would also have been the case that cc did not occur . |
| 13 | It may also have been the case that magistrates were less willing to overturn the appeals of disappointed claimants , since they were well enough aware that the increasing burden of relief was being thrown on to a decreasing number of shoulders as the proportion of the village populations either needing assistance or at least no longer able to pay poor rates increased . |
| 14 | It has generally been the case that people who leave the DUP see their political careers terminated . |
| 15 | Thus the different socio-political contexts were mobilized by the political parties of protest in different ways , producing a more complex electoral geography than would have been the case if Wales had a uniform political culture . |
| 16 | This may have been the case when Lady C. first frightened the servants back in the twenties , but now that kind of behaviour would probably land Mellors in the hot water he so obviously needs . |
| 17 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 18 | The great Continental stations , Paris , Stuttgart , Vienna , Budapest , Bucharest , Constantinople , have been the beginning and ending and en route stopping-places in the wealth of literature inspired by that acme of railway luxury , the Orient Express , the train on which James Bond once shot a man for ordering red wine with his fish . |
| 19 | Whenever there has been a change within television in this country there has always been the accusation that quality would suffer . |
| 20 | It 's been the cradle and help of many actors , directors and playwrights . |
| 21 | The problem has been the cost and complexity of point-of-sale systems that can run to around £3,000 or £4,000 he says . |
| 22 | A key goal in LTQ training has been the development and dissemination of a common language to articulate company goals and a shared approach to routine problem-solving and personal interaction within the company . |
| 23 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 24 | Perhaps it had been the Prince or Gaveston ? |
| 25 | EVER since Neil Adams retired , Densign White has been the spokesman and leader of the British men 's judo squad . |
| 26 | This had ‘ not always been the law or practice , but now seemed ‘ to be well established ’ . |
| 27 | One aspect that has been somewhat modified by further curriculum development projects , has been the implication that pupils were not receptive to certain ways of thinking until certain stages in their development . |
| 28 | It is by no means clear that the Church and Queen position of 1710 – 14 was any more popular in the nation at large than had been the Church and King position of either 1660 – 2 or 1681 – 5 . |
| 29 | They were considered , both of them considered , both of them considered erm but it is my recollection that erm been the inference that Mr had made the telephone calls himself . |
| 30 | But Lévi-Strauss rather objects to the ethnocentrism of Sartre 's argument , for it means that ‘ man ’ , the constituents of whom should have been the result and product of Sartre 's anthropology , is defined in advance in terms of the dialectic as historical humanity , with history effectively restricted to societies of the West . |