Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is true , it is the more important that active approaches and positive attitudes prevail , if enjoyment in books is to be kept alive in the face of more passive forms of entertainment . |
| 2 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 3 | For ethnographers and sociolinguists considering linguistic interaction , these elements and others have to be made explicit in the analysis of features such as code-switching and role-relationships . |
| 4 | From time to time every such persisting debt relationship needs to be made manifest in an actual gift transaction , but the relationship is in the feeling of indebtedness not in the gift . |
| 5 | Arcturus is still high , and the lovely Zodiacal constellations of Scorpius and Sagittarius are to be seen low in the south . |
| 6 | Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 7 | How Gemma Gibson came to be left alone in a flat in Hammersmith , London seems likely to remain unclear until she comes back . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not usual for a king to be left alone in the field at the end of a withdrawal . |
| 9 | Like my patient the Wolf-Man , I was fortunate or unfortunate enough to be lying awake in the night when the five candles of my destiny glimmered on the tree outside . |
| 10 | The unison of flutes , oboes , clarinets , and violas is powerful and striking , but is more likely to be found appropriate in the full orchestra than in the small orchestra . |
| 11 | On the train to face trial in the north , Peace jumped through an open carriage window , and although a guard clung to his shoe he wriggled free , only to be found unconscious in the snow . |
| 12 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |
| 13 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 14 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |