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Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] be [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1	v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’
2	Some commentators on the left take a more explicitly political view of the central-local government trends since 1979 and suggest that they are part of a deliberate larger attempted restructuring of relations between state and society .
3	Father , You are lord of the church and we acknowledge that you are lord of St Leonard 's .
4	During these months we found that we were part of what amounts to a movement in Britain today , with churches springing up everywhere .
5	In a report published in May 1990 the human rights organization Amnesty International found that there was evidence of the use of torture and of deaths as a consequence ; it expressed concern over the government 's inaction in investigating torture allegations — the majority of which emanated from the Casamance region — and in implementing adequate safeguards .
6	" God Save Ireland " my mother would exclaim if there was news of world catastrophe on the wireless or the milk threatened to boil over .
7	I do n't know if he 's sort of jealous of her and Stephen or what .
8	Previously Labour 's leaders had qualified their rejection of a Popular Front by hinting that they might consider if there was evidence of a serious backbench Tory revolt .
9	she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
10	It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past .
11	Well I 'm sure , I do n't know whether it 's sort of easy to wear when you 're playing croquet or I suppose
12	In March 1239 Agnes de Amundeville , a forester of fee of Feckenham Forest , gave the king an annual payment of one mark at the Exchequer for recovery of her bailiwick : it had been seized because of a venison offence by her son Ralph , committed when he was keeper of that forest .
13	There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about .
14	The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements .
15	I repeat that they are part of a dissenting judgment but if one is to consider what principle of law is to be applied in an area where there is no direct authority of your Lordships ' House , it is relevant to have regard to them .
16	The courts are concerned to see that there is equality of treatment between the parties .
17	Only Mark seemed to have an inkling of this strain ; but he ( thank heaven ) did n't seem to realize that he was part of it .
18	Hedilla believed that he was head of the party , but other members of the committee and their respective coteries considered that Hedilla was no more than " first among equals " and that , in any case , his authority was only provisional .
19	He says that it 's part of the town 's heritage .
20	What we need to do is get our members and make them feel that they 're part of Europe , not dispossessed by it , at this moment in the time there 's not a lot for them in consideration of Europe .
21	WHAT would you do if you were chairman of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ?
22	However , inroads into that exemption , have been made when they are part of a group .
23	However , all deaths and most of the considerable arterial damage occurred where pressures were uncontrolled , poorly controlled , or treatment was delayed until there was evidence of organ damage , largely because aggressive prescription of tolerable drugs only gradually became accepted practice in the late 1960s and early 1970s .
24	She was being persecuted and it was part of a carefully laid plan .
25	Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that .
26	but I mean if it was sort of about s s five yards , it would n't be five yards by three yards .
27	In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays .
28	We 're just saying oh well we 'll see how it goes and we 're sort of putting it down whereas I suppose we should hit them straight away .
29	Nevertheless , in share sales problems may still exist if there are change of control clauses in contracts to which the target is a party .
30	The fighting was instigated by Hezbollah , which prompted some commentators to suggest that it was part of an Iranian effort to undermine the Saudi-instigated Taif peace process .