Example sentences of "be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 2 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 3 | According to Locke , however , the question is ‘ what makes the same person , and not whether it be the same identical substance , which always thinks in the same person , which in this case matters not at all ’ . |
| 4 | Later in the Old Testament we are told how Job , robbed of everything , at first reacts by declaring , ‘ The Lord gave , and the Lord has taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord ’ ( Job 1.21 ) . |
| 5 | It is the grid for a scene of battle , whether it be the Rout of San Romano by Uccello or Guernica by Picasso . |
| 6 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 7 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 8 | … if this be the Original Grant of Government and the Foundation of Monarchical Power , there will be as many Monarchs as there are Husbands . |
| 9 | Blessed be the foreign correspondent who can fly from Beirut to Athens , therefore , and in the same day pick up an El Al flight from Athens to Tel Aviv and land at Ben Gurion airport and travel — faster even than the old direct taxi route from prewar Beirut — to Jerusalem . |
| 10 | We each make our own Inca trails , whether it be the walking route of that name which brings you to Machu Picchu spectacularly through the Gates of the Sun ; the halting journey I made by bus , colectivo and train ; or the tourists ' ninety dollar day trip on a special train . |
| 11 | Now therefore the first thing which ye do after I have departed , wash my body with rose-water many times and well , as blessed be the name of God it is washed within and made pure of all uncleanness to receive his holy body to-morrow , which will be my last day . |
| 12 | Darkness can be necessary to progress , whether it be the cloud hiding the sun ( as , e.g. , in Ex. 13.21 ) , or the earth covering the seed ( Jn. 12.24 ) , or the deep pit without foothold ( Ps. 88.4 ) . |
| 13 | Mass civil disorder , whether it be the result of a real or imagined grievance or merely over-indulgence in alcohol , is not purely a recent phenomenon . |
| 14 | Lord Byron noted the treatment of recalcitrant women in 19th Century Penzance ; ‘ The women ( blessed be the Corporation therefore ! ) are flogged at the Cart 's tail when they pick and steal , as happened to one of the fair sex yesterday noon . |
| 15 | Be the wave , be the shingle |
| 16 | James : ‘ You be the leader in front and I 'll be the leader behind . ’ |
| 17 | There are psychic similarities to many Gospel events whether it be the dreams and visions of Zechariah ( Luke 1 and 2 ) ; the foreknowledge of Elizabeth concerning Mary 's baby ( Luke 1 ) ; Jesus knowing what was in people 's minds ( Luke 11:17 ) ; or the predicative prophecies of Jesus ( Luke 19:39–44 ) . |
| 18 | For in those matters which are beyond the reach of absolute knowledge , it is within the province of man 's own responsibility to decide what , for the time being , can be or can not be accepted as truth , and , as there can be a Created God , so can that God be the product of created truth . |
| 19 | Speaking for the Socialists , the largest single group in the assembly , British MEP David Bowe ( Cleveland and Yorkshire North ) said ‘ We should all be conscious of the scandals which have taken place in the past , whether it be the dumping of waste in the Third World or the scandalous sham recycling of some waste so that it is disposed of in extremely environmentally unfriendly ways ’ . |
| 20 | The fact that the media regularly confront their audience with discourse and images about gays requires that a vocabulary for dealing with such awkwardnesses be discovered , even if it be the lexicon of bigotry and stereotype . |
| 21 | I have often thought : if his conduct be the result of a good education , then I am glad to be just an ordinary guy . |
| 22 | Lucky Langdon , who is not normally a cautious person , believes this is unlikely , given the current opinion poll rating , and that the best bet wold be the Conservatives winning the most seats , but without an overall majority — thus returning them to power as a minority government . |
| 23 | Be the Agency 's guest . |
| 24 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |
| 25 | Whether it be the positivism of Comte , the social evolutionism of Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) and James Frazer ( 1854–1941 ) , or the socialism of Marx and the Fabians , the slogan they all chanted was ‘ Progress , progress , progress ’ . |
| 26 | Be the boss |
| 27 | The ‘ imperial animal ’ of the title is exclusively male , whether he be the shaper of human evolution or the intellectual of today . |
| 28 | Implementation of eugenic control of alleged inferior groups , whether they be the urban proletariat , the Jews or coloured peoples , was seen as of vital importance . |
| 29 | Katz lost interest when producers insisted that David Salle be the film 's director . |
| 30 | If she divorces Prince Charles she loses her children and the chance to use her special gifts to help those in need , whether it be the homeless , AIDS patients or victims of leprosy . |