Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They both looked tense and uncomfortable , and seemed to be searching the journalists for faces they knew . |
| 7 | But it 's far too soon to be writing the post-mortems . |
| 8 | They seen to be watching the passengers . |
| 9 | The general effect was distinctly lacklustre , and Wells 's complex , genre-hopping arrangements seemed to be causing the players no small amount of difficulty , judging by the near desperate scrutiny of charts and occasional wayward phrasing and intonation . |
| 10 | Their restraint was mainly due to their feeling of strangeness — it was unique for them to be sharing the seats with the men , their usual place being in the high gallery around the side-walls . |
| 11 | Bryan Beeson , a defeated opponent at the national championships , said : ‘ I was feeling like death and he actually seemed to be enjoying the rallies . |
| 12 | It is true that cases of seditious words brought before the courts at the time of the disturbances show that disaffection was often expressed in terms of a belief in Stuart legitimism : in early 1715 , Londoner Phillip Hide cursed King George and said " he had no right to the Crowne of England " , whilst on 29 May 1715 , during the Jacobite demonstrations in London , John Burnoist was noticed to be wandering the streets shouting " James the third is right and Lawfull King of England " , the " protector of the protestant religion " , and " George is a Usurper to the Crown " . |
| 13 | TROOPS were reported to be patrolling the streets of the Romanian capital , Bucharest , yesterday as evidence mounted of a massacre in the town of Timisoara at the weekend and East and West moved to denounce the brutal clampdown by the regime 's security forces . |
| 14 | Armed soldiers were reported to be patrolling the streets of Bucharest and the capital 's students were said to be voicing solidarity with the protesters in the north of the country , in what appeared to be a menacing escalation of the crisis . |
| 15 | Up front Bill appears to be inspecting the controls . |
| 16 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 17 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 18 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 19 | But there it encountered another ruined project , a work to be called The Drunks of which only a tiny fragment survives , and the marriage of these two constitutes the success of Crime and Punishment . |
| 20 | One other sideways bound was the creation of what has come to be called the police procedural . |
| 21 | These turned out to be to take the prisoners into the cells . |
| 22 | Given that there does not seem to be the same reluctance to imbibe proteins made from plants as there is to be using the proteins in the milk of Dr Ron James ' transgenic sheep or Scotgen 's ‘ humanised ’ mouse antibodies , there may be a good case for a local entrepreneur to transfer an Amazonian shaman 's technology to make a Scottish national wonder drug . |
| 23 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 24 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 25 | The purpose of these Acts was stated to be to enable the purchasers to exclude the deer and ‘ commonable cattle ’ , after compensation paid to the commoners , and to enclose the forest wastes and ‘ use ( them ) as Farms ’ . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ Jane , is your goal to help the chimps , or is it to appear to be helping the chimps ? ’ |
| 27 | It did n't make any noise , but it seemed to be impressing the humans no end . |
| 28 | If this does happen , the only solution seems to be to disconnect the instruments and to pump air through the system to blow out the water and dry the tubing . |
| 29 | But there is no doubt the 39-year-old batsman wants to be calling the shots when the Ashes series winds up at The Oval in August . |
| 30 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |