Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is also believed to have been the word used by Romans when they were attempting to describe the giraffe .
2 The tent is warm , and I have taken everything off , even though it has been the norm to sleep in our thermals and a pile fibre hood .
3 Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson .
4 Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction .
5 Another ticket perhaps unique to the Bishop 's Castle Railway may have been the Golf returns from Craven Arms to Plowden issued in First Class at 1/6d , Second Class 1/- and Third Class 9d .
6 A second theme evident in biogeography has been the progress made towards cultural biogeography and historical ecology .
7 Perhaps the most positive outcome , on a personal basis , has been the opportunity to participate in discussion and share ideas on an area of my work which I have not previously discussed in depth .
8 The other stand-by has been the money earned by Greece 's merchant navy .
9 And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’
10 One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners .
11 ( The fact that this might have been the case seems to be beyond the imagination of many even of liberal disposition in the church . )
12 A major worry has been the threat posed by groundwater pollution and some research has been conducted on using GIS to monitor this ( Merchant et al. 1987 ; Barringer et al. 1987 ; von Braun 1988 ) .
13 From Wyeth 's description this seems to have been the approach followed in the PET case .
14 Cod , plaice , sole and turbot have long been the chief catches in the deep-sea fishing grounds of the North Sea , and the trawler , with which Grimsby 's name is synonymous , was introduced in the nineteenth century to drag a wide-mouthed net along the sea floor , to catch these so-called ‘ ground fish ’ .
15 This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years .
16 Could this have been the method used in Upper Halling ?
17 This has been the method used by all the great melody-writers over several centuries .
18 This has been the method used by the most successful interactive video systems of recent years .
19 There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research .
20 ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . "
21 ‘ Then it must have been the stream running over the rocks , ’ said Betty .
22 The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal .
23 Indeed , this has in effect been the argument made by many international lawyers in the years after Hiroshima .
24 Most significant for them has been the need to adapt to the much greater degree of bureaucratic organization which has followed the 1973 Act , the great landmark in their careers .
25 This has been the practice followed on the eastern side of the county at Adamthwaite in the Howgills and is explained in the INTRODUCTION .
26 Apparently , it has never been the practice to submit to justices a proposed draft order reflecting the terms that have been agreed between the parties .
27 This appears to have been the conclusion reached by the Israeli government when it launched its air attack on Iraq 's French-built research-scale Osiris reactor at Tuweithah near Ctesiphon in June 1981 .
28 This was after the 4472 hauled special , and may have been the final working into Hyde 's .
29 I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather .
30 There had been the mouldering remains of a delicatessen meal in tinfoil trays in the fridge , along with a bottle of beer and two of orange squash .
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