Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee . |
| 2 | ‘ Ron Fenton may seem an obvious choice to an outsider , ’ he said , ‘ but my inside knowledge tells me he would not be the players ' choice . |
| 3 | The way in which the teams organise their work will be one focus of analysis : another will be the teams ' differing locations ( in observatories or universities ) , and the extenbhich their designs are influenced , not only by ‘ scientific goals ’ , but also by their perceptions of other important ‘ reference groups ’ ( eg other users , or committees considering the design of later facilities ) . |
| 4 | Big , bad and sad should be the companies ' mottoes . |
| 5 | I assume that will be the organisers ' decision having seen the picture on the front of the November edition . |
| 6 | Already , however , reports of the atrocities in the Highlands were causing revulsion in London and when that month Cumberland was made a freeman of a City livery company it was suggested that the most appropriate would be the butchers ' , giving Cumberland his enduring nickname . |
| 7 | If not correctly understood it can be the Achilles ' heel of a complicated chain of investigations . |
| 8 | DORCHESTER : Feared to be the terrorists ' target |
| 9 | It 's , it was the architects ' department erm , till they go like you know , till they Palatine Hall erm , it used to be the architects ' department . |
| 10 | STOP ME if you 've heard this before , but I 've always considered Throwing Muses to be the Pixies ' most aloof siblings . |
| 11 | The consequence of this logic of action is that the management of the state enterprise ceases to be the unions ' sole potential bargaining partner . |
| 12 | Kazakhstan 's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbekistan 's President Islam Karimov both condemned the way in which the draft treaty had been thrust upon the republics by the centre , and took the same line as the Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin in arguing that it should be the republics ' prerogative to dictate what powers the centre should retain . |
| 13 | The only way people can be safe is to assume they could be the thieves ' next target and do what they can to protect their horses . |
| 14 | Such demands failed , however , to quell the discontent , which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher , a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters ' overwhelming choice to replace her . |
| 15 | Without lesbians there would be no Girls ' Work Movement today . |
| 16 | So he is actually taking some action , and he will come back to us fairly soon he said erm about the result of his survey , whether or not there 'll be a residents ' scheme down there . |
| 17 | There 's soon to be a beginners ' wall as well , but the most impressive construction is an immense leading wall built by DR Climbing Walls . |
| 18 | It happened to be a goods ' entrance , and as she pushed open the heavy doors and slipped inside the deafening noise hit her — of hammering and drilling and the drone of the hydraulic pumps that operated the floor levels together with the shouts of the men operating the overhead cranes . |
| 19 | A voluntary winding up may be a members ' winding up or a creditors ' winding up . |
| 20 | Though since , should he do nothing , then in the way of all these things the news would only be a nine-days ' wonder , she had other matters to concentrate on . |
| 21 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 22 | Solaris 2.0 was only supposed to be a developers ' release in the first place . |
| 23 | Yes , training to be a factories ' inspector . |