Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the fountain sealed up , the walled garden where the lord Christ takes his rest at noon ; I am my Own grille and enclosure and the desperate bride vowed to him who blesses my chains . |
| 2 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 3 | Passera responds solemnly that there had been the opportunity to sell out to AT&T Co at a very good price , and that option had been rejected . |
| 4 | A band whose main influence seems to have been the orchestra tuning up backwards on ‘ A Day In The Life ’ ? |
| 5 | The allies ' biggest visible flop at the outset of this war has been the failure to knock out the launchers of Iraq 's Scud missiles . |
| 6 | Llhuyd paid a shilling to the verger for a portion of it , for it seems it had long been the practice to saw off portions of it to sell to pilgrims probably an early example of Welsh private enterprise . |
| 7 | To date , the only remote equivalent to this in Britain has been the inquiry carried out by the House of Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs into police special branches in 1984–5 . |
| 8 | Gabriel looked up into the two faces : there was Garvey , curl-haired , jolly , with a shining bald tonsure and round , red cheeks , bright blue eyes and long , dark lashes ; and there was Lucie , his skin stretched so tight over his bones that its yellowness might have been the skull shining through ; deep-hollowed eyes and troughs under his cheek-bones like two gouges of the Mason 's chisel ; and those flashing , foreign eyes . |
| 9 | There has been one miracle already and that has been the hand put back on . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Until then my main unspoken worry had been the dinghy swinging up into the tail . |
| 11 | When the Derry team members take their place in Croke Park on September 19 for the All Ireland GAA final , chances are the song drifting down from the terraces will have been penned by Maghera man James Devlin . |
| 12 | But why are the French turning out to be the natural heirs ? |
| 13 | They , they 're a bit run down . |
| 14 | And el you 're a bit cheesed off are you Teresa ? |
| 15 | Because , after all , what happens that last year 's model it wears , y y , you 're a bit fed up with it ! |
| 16 | They 're a bit scattered around — we must have been near the bottom of the pile , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 17 | L et 's be honest , the only thing wrong with laces is they 're a pain to do up every time and they sometimes seem to untie themselves mysteriously in the middle of a run . |
| 18 | There had been no time to set about her hair , or her blue-white face , only enough time to make a delicious picnic and pack its basket into the boot of the car . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't owe anyone anything and there has been no liquidator called in . |
| 20 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 21 | He smiled as if he knew that had been a struggle to get out but he did n't make it more difficult for her . |
| 22 | ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately . |
| 23 | That it had been a mistake to come back to Eastlake ? |
| 24 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 25 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 26 | Yes , that was a bit that 's been a bit hyped up erm |
| 27 | The wistful look back to the glorious and not-so-glorious age of steam has ensured that there has been a rush to print off books about the railwayman 's experience . |
| 28 | He had never been a man to face up to anything unpleasant . |
| 29 | It could have been a glass put down upon a table . |
| 30 | Very naturally , there has been a disinclination to face up to these very daunting issues with their massive implications on educational investment and , perhaps , a subconscious hope that the contradictions would resolve themselves . |