Example sentences of "be the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My body will cease to be the temple of physical perfection that it currently is , my old aches and pains will return and my reliance on the ministrations of the NHS will increase . |
| 2 | We are not aware of these lines and angles of theoretical geometrical optics ; they can not be the intermediary by which we perceive distance . |
| 3 | We travelled in a north easterly towards the German/Luxembourg border with Queen 's Greatest Hits playing full blast ( it seemed to be the anthem of the trip ) which restored spirits . |
| 4 | It was a love affair between thinking minds as opposed to that " bloody jumped-up airline chap " which seemed to be the anthem of his air-rink contemporaries . |
| 5 | ‘ The public house represents what should be the hub of our wheel of life , essential to our material need and second only to the church that stands and represents our spiritual necessity . |
| 6 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 7 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 8 | Bordered on three sides by palatial arcades , and faced on the other by the Basilica of St Mark , the huge square seemed to be the hub of Venice . |
| 9 | Part of the fascination of the old for the very young could be the sense of contact with a long-past world , half haunted . |
| 10 | This appears to be the sense in which Plato used the idea in the Timaeus . |
| 11 | The main difference , in the heads ' eyes , seemed to be the change from historical to formula funding . |
| 12 | It must be the change in air down there . ’ |
| 13 | By attempting to show that the monetary changes were not associated with the changes in national income , they concluded that it must be the change in the money supply that causes the change in national income . |
| 14 | The Donatists considered themselves to be the church of the martyrs , and kept alive the old posture of the persecuted church in the new , much altered , times after Constantine . |
| 15 | Together , we are the Church of the PRESENT — but we need to work as ONE to be the Church of the future ! |
| 16 | A JUDO black belt is to be the Church of England 's next Bishop of Europe . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , Father , I and the other rat-catchers wondered whether St Erconwald 's could be the church for our guild fraternity ? ’ |
| 18 | Even if historians are specifically interested in form , it is likely to be the history of forms , or the development of styles which will have attracted their attention . |
| 19 | The history of madness would be the history of the Other — of that which , for a given culture , is at once interior and foreign , therefore to be excluded ( so as to exorcise the interior danger ) but by being shut away ( in order to reduce its otherness ) ; whereas the history of the order imposed on things would be the history of the Same — of that which , for a given culture , is both dispersed and related , therefore to be distinguished by kinds and to be collected together into identities . |
| 20 | The history of madness would be the history of the Other — of that which , for a given culture , is at once interior and foreign , therefore to be excluded ( so as to exorcise the interior danger ) but by being shut away ( in order to reduce its otherness ) ; whereas the history of the order imposed on things would be the history of the Same — of that which , for a given culture , is both dispersed and related , therefore to be distinguished by kinds and to be collected together into identities . |
| 21 | raised the curiosity of some ladies , who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782 , to examine the ruined Chapel , and observing a large block of alabaster , fixed in the North wall of the Chapel , they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there . |
| 22 | The wall on the left seems to be the back of a bank , the wall on the right and the one at the back of the yard belong to the Admiralty . |
| 23 | But a completely different word would be the word for what 's behind the cattle in the West Mainland it 's a and in the East Mainland it 's an or an . |
| 24 | Indeed , in Trible 's case , unless one is a conservative Christian who believes the text to be the word of God ? |
| 25 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 26 | That was our experience under the previous Labour Government and would be the experience of Londoners if there were ever to be the misfortune of another Labour Government . |
| 27 | It 'll be a working holiday , but my goodness it 'll be the experience of a lifetime and to find out how you can join us stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 28 | That may well be the experience in Japan , but it is a far cry from practice in most developed and developing countries . |
| 29 | But if Paddy Ashdown embraced Neil Kinnock 's successor , what would be the consequences for his party and policies ? |
| 30 | Often there is no intention to frustrate the child ; the rejections — such as not listening to or fobbing off the child — may be the consequences of the parent 's being too busy with chores or being tired and irritable after a day 's work , and so forth . |