Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man who was n't there long enough to get his head crunched by the rugger roughs was BEZ from The Mondays . |
| 2 | During 1981 the Prince had been patron of the International Year of Disabled People , and met yet another vast group of people who suffered enormous hardship and prejudice , and whom society did not seem to care about . |
| 3 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 4 | Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money . |
| 5 | Much of the money owed was Brian 's personal debt that his widow is not liable for . |
| 6 | That was the end of her working , and anyway the money had been peanuts . |
| 7 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 8 | One of the first to make the case had been Tom Paine in Rights of Man ( 1791–2 ) : |
| 9 | The value of the damage caused was £1,200 . |
| 10 | The value of the damage caused was £1,200 . |
| 11 | If the Tobacco Institute of Australia is required to pay the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations $ ; A1.5 million when costs are determined , it may well consider the experience to have been money well spent . |
| 12 | The route chosen was Mansfield Road , and starting at the North-East corner of Market Square , the count was made for 2 mins every 200 yards up Clumber Street , Milton Street and Mansfield Road . |
| 13 | How often , in my past life , I had claimed that one of the great benefits the nineteenth century had conferred on the West had been science 's liberation of thought and feeling from organized religion . |
| 14 | The play had been Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet . |
| 15 | The most controversial issue the Association handled was Harris Tweed where there was a sharp conflict between competing commercial interests . |
| 16 | In Treseder-Griffin v Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd [ 1956 ] 2 QB 127 the rent reserved was £1,900 " either in gold sterling or Bank of England notes to the equivalent value in gold sterling " . |
| 17 | Where the applicant is represented by a non-lawyer , and the respondent is represented by a lawyer the probability of the applicant succeeding is 18% . |
| 18 | There was some speculation that the action had been part of ongoing Israeli efforts to secure the release of servicemen missing in Lebanon . |
| 19 | If the investment involved is £100 million , however , it is not so good . |
| 20 | If the investment involved is £100 million , however , it is not so good . |
| 21 | Scotland and the South-West have been exceptions , moving against the national trend since 1981 with an upturn in their population fortunes . |
| 22 | Where trade has proved damaging for whatever reason , the result has been estrangement . |
| 23 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 24 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 25 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 26 | One of the most lovable , if not the most lovable ( apart from Dawn ) , owlets I have ever had the pleasure to meet was Biggles . |
| 27 | The review has been treasury driven rather than defence driven . |
| 28 | The Crown is amenable to declarations but a declaration can not be awarded at the interim stage of proceedings ; so the effect of the rule is that interim relief is not available in actions against the Crown in which the remedy sought is mandamus or a declaration . |
| 29 | The criterion used was frequency of occurrence : " the more frequent , the more useful . " |
| 30 | The equation to solve is eqn ( 4.3 ) which we shall write here again : |