Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [that] [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 2 | Well , erm , what kinds of changes can be performed on me and still it would be the case that it 's me ? |
| 3 | The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples . |
| 4 | According to Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 15 ) , ‘ quango-hunting ’ has since 1979 ‘ become a Conservative blood-sport , under the illusion that they are nothing but wasteful ‘ empire-building ’ ' . |
| 5 | Accurate information about epilepsy is essential to avoid the perception that it is something to be ashamed of or feared . |
| 6 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 7 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 8 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 9 | Responding to the charge that he is one , he wrote : ‘ Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied . |
| 10 | This leads to the notion that we are nothing more than chemical and mechanical devices , albeit extremely complex and wonderfully integrated ones . |
| 11 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 12 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 13 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 14 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 15 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 16 | The knowledge that you are yourself , and the world may like it or loathe it , but here you are . |
| 17 | ‘ We knew from the start that he was something special . ’ |
| 18 | She thought her brain must be slowing up , because if he was certain at the start that she was who she said she was , why would he ring England ? |
| 19 | And what I want to do is , as the moment where I 'm going in and teaching in the area that I am I do n't mind the learning support bit , I do n't mind the fact that the chil er the , the , yeah , yeah |
| 20 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 21 | If you stop trying to become whatever it is you are trying to become and instead have the feeling that you are what you are , and this is the moment — your struggle stops . |
| 22 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 23 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 24 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 25 | What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home . |
| 26 | I feel secure in the sense that I 'm my own sort of person and I feel loved by Lucy . |
| 27 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 28 | So , politely and reasonably explain to the supplier that it is his/her responsibility , not the manufacturer 's . |
| 29 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 30 | ‘ I can understand his wish for secrecy , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but I do n't see the need to adopt the charade that you were his girlfriend . ’ |