Example sentences of "it [be] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 2 | Awful lot of reasons why training i is so important to us an and basically it simply all comes back to our statement is n't it , it it 's to be a sort of feeding insurer to give unsurpassed service . |
| 3 | It 's to be the usual passive wanks from now on . |
| 4 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 5 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 6 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 7 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |
| 8 | But because there is some uncertainty about what it is to be a professional librarian and how to respond professionally to many situations , there can be rather tao many difficult decisions to be made ; and the dilemma is not helped by the weakness of the profession , both inherent and externally perceived , on the issue of censorship . |
| 9 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 10 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 11 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 12 | What advantage is it to be a man , over it is to be a boy at school , if we have only ‘ scaped the ferule [ cane ] to come under the fescue [ rod ] of an Imprimatur ? |
| 13 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 14 | ‘ We hope this information pack will show how important it is to be a good owner . ’ |
| 15 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 16 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 17 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
| 18 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 19 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 20 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
| 21 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
| 22 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 23 | If it is to be a Christology , it must also concern Christ 's person — whereupon all the problems which Christology entails are again present . |
| 24 | But part , I would suggest , is to be found in the conception that teachers have of what it is to be a teacher and that , in turn , depends on what they believe about the way in which children learn . |
| 25 | As important as the planned content of teaching — the knowledge , skills and understandings of the National Curriculum — are the messages conveyed to children about their status as learners , about the value of the ideas and understandings they bring to teaching encounters , about the control they have over their own learning , about what it is to be a successful learner . |
| 26 | … ( 6 ) Schedule 12 to this Act has effect for the purposes of this section and , in that Schedule — ( a ) Part I prescribes the matters for which provision must be made by a scheme if it is to be a scheme which qualifies for recognition for the purposes of this section ; ( b ) Part II prescribes the matters action in relation to any of which must be subject to investigation under a scheme if it is to qualify for recognition for the purpose of investigations in relation to that matter ; and ( c ) Part III contains other requirements to which a scheme must conform if it is to be so recognised . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) If the provision of a specimen other than a specimen of breath may be required in pursuance of this section the question whether it is to be a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine shall be decided by the constable making the requirement , but if a medical practitioner is of the opinion that for medical reasons a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken the specimen shall be a specimen of urine . |
| 28 | You have no idea how boring it is to be a computer . |
| 29 | Somewhere deep down , your idea of what it is to be a person , to truly engage in the world , has become critically interfused with childish fantasy . |
| 30 | It is to be a surprise . |