Example sentences of "have [verb] being [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't do any astronomy in this department , but we teach an elementary astronomy course , and astronomy of course now is just the physics of outer space ; astronomy has stopped being a separate subject . |
| 2 | HOLLYWOOD has stopped being the dream factory and instead become the poison factory , challenging conventional notions of decency , undermining the family , ridiculing religion and promoting contempt for authority . |
| 3 | The Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland is currently considering whether charges of obstructing the police investigation should be brought against a free Armagh and a man who has admitted being the crucial Source A referred to in the programme . |
| 4 | He 's denied it , but Cunnliffe has admitted being the driver , say the prosecution . |
| 5 | A 17-year-old youth has admitted being the graffiti vandal who daubed his ‘ tag ’ Rat on buildings in Chester during a six month vandalism spree . |
| 6 | As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian . |
| 7 | Until then he 'd denied being the gunman , but today pleaded guilty to the shootting . |
| 8 | Robert said , ‘ I was telling Lili in the car that she should n't have stopped being a dancer . ’ |
| 9 | You 'll have to start being a lot tidier . |
| 10 | He was offered a job on the production side , which would have entailed being a works superintendent . |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't have minded being an actress , ’ she says , ‘ but I 'm happy with the shop . ’ |
| 12 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 13 | He had his little ancestral secrets , as follows : his great-grandfather , also a William , had been buried as an 80-year-old pauper in Wylye in 1806 after a lifetime spent as a humble shepherd , and his own father , James , was to die in St Pancras Workhouse in 1862 at the end of a lively career which had included being an agricultural labourer , a french polisher , a clothes salesman , a catsmeat dealer — and a pauper . |
| 14 | Afterwards she helped to clear the table and to carry the pots through into a lean-to kitchen , the room in which they had eaten being the best parlour . |
| 15 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 16 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 17 | After being charged , McIntyre had denied being a Labour Party member . |
| 18 | After being charged , McIntyre had denied being a member of any party . |
| 19 | Your dad said you 've mentioned being an actor . ’ |
| 20 | The cavemen story was finished and ready in script form by the time Verity Lambert arrived at the BBC , the only change from the format she had read being the shift of Susan into the role of granddaughter to the Doctor . |