Example sentences of "[be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes — but you are not expected to be a nurse . |
| 2 | Soreness in the groin , or a discharge from the genitals , can be a sign of some sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 3 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 4 | ‘ And I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer or other proper officer of ACET shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors ’ . |
| 5 | While pneumonia continues to be a common occurrence , by 1989 improved treatment had reduced the numbers dying as a result to only 3% . |
| 6 | ACET aims to be a practical resource to local churches and Christian organisations seeking to prevent new infection and provide basic community care . |
| 7 | We can start with Baudelaire , sometimes considered to be a father of modern criticism . |
| 8 | Thus the best account of a picture may well be a sonnet or an elegy … as for criticism properly so-called … |
| 9 | Barr , in what used to be a general policy for museum curators , was not writing a passionate defence of the work his museum exhibited . |
| 10 | A traditional critic may be a practising artist ; if so , there is an excellent chance that any technical assessment included in a piece of criticism will be thorough . |
| 11 | Deciding where is the beginning can be a trouble for an art historian . |
| 12 | As he explained : ‘ My starting point has to be a vision , otherwise I can not do anything . |
| 13 | It is intended to be a contribution to the history of style rather than of individual artists . |
| 14 | Here the writer is likely to be a practitioner , and the approach may defer to the popularity of the medium as a pastime for amateurs . |
| 15 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 16 | Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience . |
| 17 | The catalogue raisonné continues to be a key document for authentication of an artist 's work . |
| 18 | When such an article rises above the level of a gossip column , the artist 's profile can be a valuable format . |
| 19 | One source of interest can be a description of where the interview has taken place , perhaps a studio , or maybe the artist 's home . |
| 20 | A picture that affects one thus can not be a bad picture . |
| 21 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 22 | In a different sort of context , what appears to be an abstract design , devoid of reference to the natural world , may in fact be a stylisation of a person , an animal or an imagined figure . |
| 23 | There remains the courtesy paid by one art to another , as in the poem which Baudelaire suggested might be a high form of critical writing . |
| 24 | The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed 's claim to be a revolutionary leader . |
| 25 | In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics . |
| 26 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 27 | This appears to be a key point , but it is one that is left controversial . |
| 28 | Klima may perhaps be a common name in Czechoslovakia , and Kundera has become a common name in the conversation of Western readers , who are drawn to these reciprocal concerns of his . |
| 29 | His Postscript evokes the aim of a white-coated Doctor Kundera ‘ to solve an aesthetic problem : how to write a novel which would be a ‘ critique of poetry ’ and yet at the same time would itself be poetry ’ . |
| 30 | Many poems contain a critique of poetry , just as many contain a critique of the self-portrayed poet , and of his intention to serve a social or doctrinal system , or of his claim to be a special case . |