Example sentences of "to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need to be intimidated by the formality of a staid institution 's catalogue , or to neglect popular magazines ; as for writing in various academic disciplines , there ought to be no barrier to learning about an interesting topic . |
| 2 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 3 | But Roth must know that it is likely to be no joke to those who are reading his book . |
| 4 | What was good for catholics was also good for protestants , and Ireland was to be no exception . |
| 5 | There appeared to be no reason to upset long-established routines in this respect . |
| 6 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 7 | There appears to be no creative public vision which will help the survival of the pub or help ensure a healthy and varied pub stock . |
| 8 | There was to be no eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation this time . |
| 9 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 10 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd expect you to stay a couple of years , but obviously there 's going to be no pressure on you to move on at the end of that period . |
| 12 | Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem . |
| 13 | With most gliders the attitude for the nose during the slip needs to be no higher than required to maintain the chosen approach speed . |
| 14 | ‘ We , the country people of Tayside in Perth , living between Fortingall in the west , Foss on Tummel in the north , and Logierait in the east , do solemnly petition your Worship to exempt us from the Militia Act passed in July this year , 1797 , for it would submit us to hardship and bondage , which we believe to be no duty of ours . ’ |
| 15 | But when we turn to the input systems there would seem to be no choice but to use the language of ‘ representations ’ . |
| 16 | There seems to be no let-up with the continuing rise in patronage , even in the Network SouthEast area where the August 1989 approval to spend £257million on Networker units will inevitably attract more passengers when they are introduced . |
| 17 | There is to be no nonsense about value , preferring some books or authors to others , or personal responses , which have a merely anecdotal or autobiographical interest . |
| 18 | Jean-Marie Balestre , the president of FISA , has pointed out that the regulations permit an immediate ban regardless of any appeal and there would appear to be no further argument on that point . |
| 19 | For God 's sake , unless we talk to these people , there 's going to be no answer . |
| 20 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 21 | Acas officials briefed union leaders yesterday on discussions with management last Tuesday , but there appeared to be no possibility of an early breakthrough . |
| 22 | There were still celebrated Marxist historians , such as E. P. Thompson , Eric Hobsbawm , Christopher Hill , and John Saville , but they were all at the veteran stage , and there appeared to be no significant youthful successors , as their creed withered throughout eastern Europe . |
| 23 | As in the Fall narrative , which it resembles in more ways than one , there seems to be no going back ; our original innocence , the wholeness of an original bisexuality , is never retrievable . |
| 24 | The support for the status quo in these two areas had been ‘ soft ’ , with the public acquiescing because there appeared to be no politically workable alternative . |
| 25 | There seems to be no saturation point . |
| 26 | ‘ There is n't going to be no wedding , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Once again there seemed to be no one around the Prince and Princess with the foresight to see that the situation was becoming seriously out of control . |
| 28 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 29 | THERE would appear to be no future in Newcastle United 's courtship of Roy Aitken , the Celtic captain , following yesterday 's disapproval of the affair by Billy McNeill , manager of the Glasgow club . |
| 30 | Because of Ceausescu 's insistence that the entire population is responsible for national defence , there is seen to be no need to maintain professional and well-trained armed soldiers . |