Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally . |
| 2 | Yet this would be to miss the essence of the point Marx seeks to make : for bad treatment by employers of employees is open to correction by moral conviction whether that of the employers themselves acting in pursuance of enlightened self-interest , or that of legislatures acting to prevent abuses ; and the simple understanding would , by introducing the possibility of an extrinsic and corrective moral factor , threaten the inevitability of the class war . |
| 3 | To say that the recipe is naive would be to miss the point , but with the predominance of so much dance , drama is often lacking . |
| 4 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 5 | But that would be to miss the point . |
| 6 | His wife might even be sparing a thought for the murdered women 's families , never guessing that the man she was married to had been the perpetrator . |
| 7 | if you did n't put enough middle in it , it would sort of sink then , then it would be drawing the water in |
| 8 | We 'll be drawing the winner out of the hat on Friday night . |
| 9 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 10 | We think you will be finalising the report on Wednesday , but perhaps you could clarify your plans with Jenny on Tuesday ? |
| 11 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 12 | Why should I be organizing the beating up of hotel clerks ? |
| 13 | He would he would be organizing the taking of the salt and the he would stay until the |
| 14 | ‘ Ward councillors have received a number of complaints and we will be contacting the Association , asking them to make the builders behave in a responsible manner . ’ |
| 15 | The date stamp must be altered every day , as the Post Office will not accept pre- or post-dated mail . |
| 16 | Trapped in a cost-cutting spiral , Computone and Specialix — plus Chase Research Inc which is rumoured to be courting a buyer — are being forced to streamline their organisations . |
| 17 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 18 | Examples are provided of the use of medication , including stopping such treatment when it does not appear to be helping a patient . |
| 19 | Co-operation with the Communist Party did not , however , seem to be helping the ILP . |
| 20 | The palladium seemed to be helping the hydrogen to fuse but not fast enough , so if he could improve this , he might be able to make helium in amounts that would be industrially useful . |
| 21 | I 'll be helping the Imperium a little , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 22 | Therefore , a very important part of the treatment programme must be helping the client to face up to their fear and stay in the difficult situation learning that they can control their anxiety . |
| 23 | If your household has two cars and you get rid of one of them you may be helping the environment , but are certainly worse off . |
| 24 | As well as helping to save the rainforests , you 'll also be helping the environment close to home . |
| 25 | Soon we 'll be helping the environment in some new ways . |
| 26 | ‘ By going now I will be helping the club to solve their financial problems , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ But we 'd be helping the war effort just as much in a factory would n't we ? ’ |
| 28 | They would be repairing the skylight , I guessed correctly , and were probably a firm Nassim had shares in so he could fiddle the invoices for the insurance company . |
| 29 | The Party leader , Mr Jacques Chirac , said he regretted that reaction in France to events in East Germany were often cool because of the fear of difficult consequences for France , but the priority should be to support a victory of democracy over communism . |
| 30 | The predominant approach in the UK can be described as Manually Coded English ( MCE ) , i.e. the priority everywhere seems to be to support the learning of English through simultaneous use of signs and English . |