Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 32 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 33 | Framing the articles of incorporation for the non-profit foundation and its initial policies has been the responsibility of Dr Steven Mansbach , currently Associate Dean of the National Gallery of Art 's Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts . |
| 34 | Since April 1986 , the whole of the twenty-eight weeks of sickness benefit has been the responsibility of employers , and all twenty-eight weeks is taxable . |
| 35 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 36 | In their view a major cause of the decline in profits has been the ability of labour , during the post-war years of high employment , to increase its share of value added at the expense of profits . |
| 37 | ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’ |
| 38 | Reagan may well have been the reincarnation of Henry II . |
| 39 | A major task has been the removal of asbestos insulation . |
| 40 | Another boost to the market has been the removal of turnover tax at the beginning of this year , which tripled volumes . |
| 41 | However , 50 million years ago creatures would look much less like they do today : for example horses would have been the size of wolves and have had only three toes . |
| 42 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |
| 43 | Henry 's life-long role had been the Kingship of England , it was for his sons to look abroad for glory in battle . |
| 44 | The stones may have been the origin of market sites , and have been the focus , or ompholos , around which market towns grew up . |
| 45 | ( Men find that they are able to be listed over and over again but that has n't been the experience of Helen Chadwick . ) |
| 46 | This has been the experience of power companies in the United States , where such schemes have been tried on a larger scale . |
| 47 | A more important factor , however , has been the provision of government support for collective bargaining . |
| 48 | One of the few creditable responses of the outside world in this dismal war has been the provision of food and medical help . |
| 49 | Michael Phizacklea , the Institute 's director of finance , replies : The overriding consideration in the preparation of the Institute 's accounts has always been the provision of information to members . |
| 50 | Most significant however has been the donation of time and expertise by the many members of the wider research community who have served on the TEI 's Working Committees and Working Groups . |
| 51 | Equally as important , though , has been the reputation of Guinness as a tonic . |
| 52 | The robotic replacement or adaptation of man has been the dream of inventors and film-makers for decades — eg the bionic man and other similar imaginative creations . |
| 53 | Of great significance has been the influence of ideologies of modernization , both liberal and Marxist , which essentially equate progress with Western conceptions of social , political and economic development . |
| 54 | What has been the fate of Chakufwa Chihana , the opposition leader arrested on 6 April ( see ‘ Silenced Spring ’ , NSS , 17 April ) ? |
| 55 | Germany has been the jewel of Ingres ' crown , with 700 new licences expected to push revenues there up to DM35m from DM27.6m last time around . |
| 56 | One problem has been the payment of income support two weeks in arrears . |
| 57 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 58 | Black has been the colour of evening suits since the 19th century , but in the Thirties , smart gents followed the Prince of Wales 's liking for midnight blue instead of black . |
| 59 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 60 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |