Example sentences of "being [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if , as Longinus thinks , the sublime , being the highest excellence that human composition can attain to , abundantly compensates the absence of every other beauty , and atones for all other deficiencies , then Michelangelo demands the preference . |
| 2 | Formal differences in art have been linked to places in varied ways , one of the best-known Renaissance contrasts being the stress on line evident in Florentine art as against the colourist approach of the Venetians , a city on water . |
| 3 | Difficulties can be many , at the top of the list being the number of items to be catalogued . |
| 4 | The desire can be surmised , without recourse to hindsight , in some of what he wrote , but is far from being the point of what he wrote . |
| 5 | He had forgotten the old joke about a policeman being the best kitchen range-finder in the world . |
| 6 | Winner of the Critics Prize at Cannes 1991 , YOUNG SOUL REBELS takes place during the summer of 1977 , a significant year , being the Queen 's Silver Jubilee . |
| 7 | It does , however , hold the distinction of being the second-longest-running job that I have held to date . |
| 8 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 9 | Few prior to Jones had cared to admit this seditious point except in the columns of the Police Review , where disgruntled beat officers ( often anonymously ) indicate the paradox of being the revered and reviled base on which all the hierarchy is built . |
| 10 | It therefore creates something of a paradox which ensures that those who make a marginal move are inevitably referred back ‘ to the centre ’ , as being the realm of ‘ real policing ’ . |
| 11 | It drives the machine ; with the ‘ interpretation ’ being the action , or output , of the machine . |
| 12 | They construct it in the sense of developing a conception of the real as being the refractory limit of their own actions . |
| 13 | Indeed action would seem to be necessary for the input systems to function properly : the role of eye-movements in vision being the most obvious case . |
| 14 | The stomach muscles are made up of several muscle groups , the most important being the rectus abdominis and the external oblique . |
| 15 | The biceps have 2 heads , the points of origin being the coracoid process on the shoulder blade and the glenoid fossa ( where the humerus fits into the shallow socket of the shoulder blade ) . |
| 16 | The only areas which must be polished being the areas in contact with the wood ; the bevels . |
| 17 | Class 313 units are also used on the suburban service between Euston and Watford Junction , to which service fell the honour of being the first line to be given a NSE total route refurbishment programme and branded ‘ Harlequin' . |
| 18 | Petipa was often accused of doing this , the best example being the dances by characters from other fairy tales who come to Aurora 's wedding ( The Sleeping Beauty . ) |
| 19 | Most traditional Italian dances are performed to a 3/4 or 6/8 time signature , the tarantella or salterello being recognised everywhere as being the most typical of the country as a whole . |
| 20 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 21 | IT GREW rapidly in the 1920s and 1930s , its most famous acquisitions being the Cannon Brewery company in Clerkenwell , EC1 in 1930 ( which itself had acquired Holt 's Marine brewery in Ratcliffe Road , E7 ) . |
| 22 | Necessity being the mother of invention ( and ingenuity ) , the foam mat from the back of my rucksack served as a seat for sliding down the snow , protected from behind by a rope and with an ice-axe to help control . |
| 23 | Being the nosy type , I thought I 'd pick his brains . |
| 24 | This simply goes along with his being the archetypal great detective , and even with Dostoevsky making him a vehicle for the airing of central thematic issues . |
| 25 | Nature is likely to follow art , art here being the pure abstraction of Stavrogin 's remark that even negation is more than he can manage . |
| 26 | AM detection and waveform generation are two of the expanding number of uses for the phase-locked loop IC , the one in question being the 4046 cmos type . |
| 27 | Gain of the INA103 is present by the connection of internal resistors to provide gain of 1 or 100 , but the potentiometer ( right ) shows how external resistors can be used to obtain other settings ; gain is determined from RG = 6/ ( G-1 ) k , G being the gain . |
| 28 | A decade later , submarine cable were carrying about 27 million words per annum , their most regular and demanding customer being the governments of the day . |
| 29 | And here is the other Frederick , the Hohenstaufen emperor , he who wrote The Book of the Falcon ( The Art of Falconry , being the De Arte Venandi cum Avibus , tr . |
| 30 | According to bankers active in the Euro-equity market this cry is heard most frequently from US accountancy firms which believe their standards , being the most conservative , provide the safest blueprint . |