Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | For whereas two individual kings had been removed , it had been the experience of their personal rule which had provoked men into lethal opposition . |
| 2 | Most were commercial failures and publishers quietly dropped them and returned to textbooks , the monomedia which had always been the core of their business . |
| 3 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 4 | And in more stable times , that may have been the secret of their success . |
| 5 | Being encouraged to resent what has often been the well-spring of their humanity , they can not grow from the experiences by accepting the inner scars as evidence of their worthy struggle to overcome themselves . |
| 6 | suddenly , musicians can be working with engineers , producers and a whole host of technical equipment which previously had been the stuff of their dreams . |
| 7 | Many communities had become sharply divided as a result of the way the penal laws had been enforced at the local level , and understandably Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours who until recently had been the agents of their destruction . |
| 8 | She stood on what she judged to have been the centre of their cottage and , fearfully biting her lip , gazed about her . |
| 9 | But last night The Sun claimed the major 's ex-girlfriend Emma Stewardson had been the source of their story . |
| 10 | Joaquim , the next oldest after Martinho , had been the leader in their various scrapes ; even Rogerio ( who had died with Joaquim on the pillion in a motor-bike accident ) had seemed more remarkable than Osvaldo . |
| 11 | The bailiffs of Sir Thomas Lovell at Ryhall , wealthy men worth £80 apiece , each owned three harnesses which might have been the property of their master . |
| 12 | Of course , it is true that much of the individuality which people show has been the result of their upbringing . |
| 13 | The men of the family always formed a very solid front to the outside world , and at times to their womenfolk , and as it had been the custom among their people for children to be looked after by the men on the mother 's side of the family , especially if a brother had no issue of his own , they did n't see why the sisters were making such a fuss . |
| 14 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 15 | That had been the start of their friendship with Simon , who had joined in all the social events of the group that summer . |
| 16 | That had been the start of their relationship , which had so totally and dramatically changed her life . |
| 17 | Of course it was only an experiment and did n't last long : by 1884 the Court Directory for London lists William as an engraver once more — this generation of Titfords seemed to lack the heart for such enterprises , which had been the speciality of their father , Benjamin the Silversmith . |
| 18 | Thus , the pre-industrial family in Britain will not only have cared for its members but will also have educated them and been the focus of their work activities . |
| 19 | It is they , after all , who have always been the symbols of their culture and traditionally it is at their slightest touch that the delicate flower of Izzat can shrivel . |
| 20 | This lot wrote the music score to the ‘ art ’ porn film starring Antonio De Sancha and as that 's been the highlight of their career so far , it can only get better . |
| 21 | 4/St.G 1 reported that one of its Ju87s crash-landed at Comiso suffering 70% damage , and this may well have been the victim of their attack . |
| 22 | This , of course , should come as no surprise ; the high standards achieved by women in the arts are now well documented by feminist historians , as are the reasons for their having been ‘ hidden from history ’ . |
| 23 | But , as we noticed in chapter 1 , it is a social fact in a much more deep-lying sense , because these dialects are the possessions of their speakers . |
| 24 | Practically all of this latter group are the owners of their own home . |
| 25 | Such are the rigours of their adulthood ( working in bons , never eating till 11pm ) that many Hoorays remember their schooldays as the happiest time of their lives ; their schoolfriends are those they feel most at ease with , even if at the time they could n't stand them . |
| 26 | are the gnostics of their time . |
| 27 | As Nayacakalou ( 1961 , p. 125 ) has said , ‘ the people in a village can not be bothered with neat pigeonholes — what they are concerned about are the exigencies of their daily lives ’ . |
| 28 | In addition , there are the complications of their own ill-health which many carers have to try to ignore : |
| 29 | As heads of the paid service and principal policy advisers , with primary responsibility for implementation of the council decisions and effectiveness of their authorities ' administration as a whole , chief executives are the key-link between their councils and their staffs . |
| 30 | But by far the greatest employers of local labour in the village itself , at present , are the nurseries with their spreads of greenhouses producing a large proportion of the country 's salad crop requirements , and plants for the nursery industry are also produced here . |