Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistant finance officer with the Western Board — the first to been hoped the payroll personnel system would be operational in all boards by 1989 , so a three to four year delay has occurred . |
| 2 | TEACHERS appear to be mastering the art of showing championship winning sheep with two collecting commemorative Golden Jubilee rosettes the show . |
| 3 | You 're not going to be gone a fortnight , I hope . |
| 4 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 5 | Nostalgia aside , this guitar is eminently playable , although it has to be said the balance problem is a pain in the shoulder . |
| 6 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 7 | Yet if children are to be taught a love of literature and language , they surely need to be inspired by those whose love of literature and language is apparent and infectious . |
| 8 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
| 9 | They need to be taught a lesson ! |
| 10 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Boris ‘ You had to come to be taught a lesson . ’ |
| 11 | Thus Adalbert 's monastic background , so far in geographical distance from the Slav missions ( but not on that account far from people who needed to be taught the basics of Christianity ) , shows pastoral awareness . |
| 12 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 13 | They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable . |
| 14 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 15 | All those who were familiar with the works of Kerschensteiner knew that the task of the schools was to educate their pupils to serve their fellow citizens ; they were to be taught the value of joy in work as service . |
| 16 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 17 | They both looked tense and uncomfortable , and seemed to be searching the journalists for faces they knew . |
| 18 | The goal of ‘ achieving wealth ’ , has the objective , ‘ to be achieving an income of £20,000 as head of my own department , within the next three years ’ . |
| 19 | Freckles certainly seems to be achieving the aim of publicising the plight of her breed . |
| 20 | I 'm supposed to be meeting a feller for the pictures at eight o'clock . ’ |
| 21 | But it is understood that the US Trade Representative , Carla Hills , is insisting the US retain powers to act unilaterally against European steel producers judged by Washington to be breaking the code . |
| 22 | It 's very annoying to be faced every week with magazines introducing new slimming diets . |
| 23 | Pascoe chose another moment on the tape and the waltz seemed to be reaching a finale : all brass and basses . |
| 24 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 25 | I am not expecting my parents to be reaching the end of their life when they are fortyish but I am likely to be expecting this , although probably unconsciously , when my parents are ninetyish . |
| 26 | The banks are believed to be reaching the point where their capital will fall below the minimum required under rules imposed by the Bank for International Settlements . |
| 27 | Such terms as ‘ idiot ’ and ‘ imbecile ’ have even attained a certain respectability , to be joined no doubt in time , by such terms as ‘ moron ’ and ‘ cretin ’ . |
| 28 | To be considered ‘ disabled ’ for this purpose you will normally need to be receiving a benefit such as Attendance Allowance , Mobility Allowance , Invalidity Benefit or be registered blind . |
| 29 | That so somewhere in i in between you 've got to be receiving the income that you generate . |
| 30 | In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something . |