Example sentences of "hear [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaker B treats this contribution as requiring an answer , following a pattern described by Labov in the rule : ‘ If ( speaker ) A makes a statement about a ( speaker ) B-event , it is heard as a request for confirmation ’ ( 1972b : 254 ) . |
| 2 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 3 | The expression the frog 's boon was also used by the old horseman in another way that is worth recording : it was heard as a kind of metaphor for ‘ being in control ’ . |
| 4 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 5 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 6 | And not a snigger is heard as a group of teenage boys sit around the table talking about sex . |
| 7 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
| 8 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
| 9 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 10 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 11 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 12 | No , it 's just a general enquiry , really , I I guess erm , erm , you you 've , through you Chairman , I I 've I 've heard about the involvement of officers , but I wonder what extent there is involvement of of of members in the the the process of preparing those reports and presentations of the report , is is there any member comment on that . |
| 13 | And I 've heard about the problem on these new Glory models too . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ Julia said , thinking of all she had read and heard about the battle at Monte Cassino . |
| 15 | Well that 's the first first I 've heard about the change to it . |
| 16 | If you would like to help , please write a letter stating the following : ’ Dear Mayor Gordon , I have heard about the work of the Buklod Centre and the programmes it runs for the hospitality women , including health education , English lessons , income-generating projects and night care for children . |
| 17 | He discovered that 48 per cent of them first heard about the riot from another person , 27 per cent by direct observation and only 26 per cent from media coverage . |
| 18 | Virtually everyone has heard about the importance of adequate protein in the diet . |
| 19 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 20 | Huy , recovering from the wounds he had received , and cursing the broken left forearm which the doctor at the Place of Healing had put in a splint and then bound too tightly , heard about the killing from Nebamun , who awakened him early in the morning — about the eleventh hour of night — with a furious hammering at his door . |
| 21 | All the evidence refutes the nonsense that we have heard about the impact of the student loans scheme . |
| 22 | When a meek voice is heard during the discussion about the beast saying , |
| 23 | Little is to be seen or heard during the day of the thousands of ‘ night birds ’ which nest deep in the tussac stools . |
| 24 | For many , it became a unique chance to have their voices heard through a diversity of media , linking artists culturally visually , emotionally and psychologically to those entering the exhibition spaces of participating in the events . |
| 25 | ‘ Room For Thought ’ is stomach-churningly twee in places , but there are moments when something spindly struggles to be heard through the forest of strings . |
| 26 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 27 | I have heard of no report of this happening . |
| 28 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 29 | It was the first time I had ever heard of a savant with a linguistic ability . |
| 30 | Have you heard of a law against laughing , Mr Clever-Dick-Nick ? ’ |