Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refuge has been more revealing about people and poverty than I 'd expected , because what it 's revealed is the hard edge of the sex differential . |
| 2 | It 's called being a citizen , not just of the world , but of all time . |
| 3 | ’ It 's called being a writer . |
| 4 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 5 | If , however , as we have already suggested , and shall be arguing at greater length below , choices about technology and how it is applied are the subject of a conflict of interests , and thus result in bargaining , then predictions about the outcome are more uncertain . |
| 6 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 7 | A Immediately after it is published is an important time for lobbying the Government but by the time the White Paper appears , the framework for the reforms will largely be set . |
| 8 | Bob Ashford , Essex county secretary for the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers ( NASUWT ) , is convinced the format of the exam , rather than the way it is marked is the crucial issue . |
| 9 | All that was found in the tomb chamber when it was excavated was the apparently hasty , late burial in a pit under the floor of an old man and a child . |
| 10 | The only thing that can save the sport in the country where it was born is a large injection of prize money . |
| 11 | One feature of the Antares that gained it a helpful blast of publicity when it was launched was the novel electronic throttle . |
| 12 | It was to have been a nice little earner . |
| 13 | It was to have been the IRA 's biggest gun-running plot ever , but it was foiled because of what was called ‘ Operation Leprechaun ’ , where the CIA , our MI5 and Irish Intelligence took a healthy — or unhealthy , it all depends on your point of view — interest in the activities of Noraid , an Irish-American group that specialized — for all I know it may still be specializing — in buying American arms and shipping them to the IRA in Ireland . |
| 14 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |