Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easiest definitions to provide are those of North Shields and Cramlington . |
| 2 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 3 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 4 | The variations in papal power and support are so crucial to an understanding of Barbarossa 's reign that the summary of papal allegiances included is worthy of study and is useful in following the complex developments . |
| 5 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 6 | The Great Tower of Magdalen College has been one of Oxford 's best known sights since the fifteenth century . |
| 7 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 8 | A property which light possesses is that of polarisation . |
| 9 | A useful rule to apply is that of Jack Morton ( 1964 ) , a past Head of Components Laboratory at Bell Telephones , New Jersey . |
| 10 | A useful rule to apply is that of jack Morton ( 1964 ) , a past Head of Components Laboratory at Bell Telephones , New jersey . |
| 11 | Actually , this signifies that the only rule admitted is that of public opinion . |
| 12 | Mr Yanagitani had been one of Daiwa 's highest-flyers . |
| 13 | His career at Thame had been full of promise , attested by the Oxford University Local Examinations certificate framed on the walls of the terraced house in Cardiff in which I grew up . |
| 14 | Carlie had been suspicious of people since the day she was born . |
| 15 | When the campaign planned was one of aggression outside the principality , there were solid grounds for assisting it , in hopes of booty or even territorial gain . |
| 16 | Scotland has been one of Britain 's growth areas in electronics ( Box B , p 639 ) . |
| 17 | But in the past Chile has been one of Iraq 's main suppliers of arms and there are fears that the new British missile could be sold on to Saddam Hussein . |
| 18 | Within Greater York the general philosophy embodied in both the Greater York study and the structure plan has been one of restraint . |
| 19 | The paper 's letters column has been full of old-soldiers ' memories and tales of cover-ups and super-weapons . |
| 20 | ( c ) First registration of title Generally , an application for first registration of title , even when the land is in a compulsory area , will not be required unless the conveyance has been one of sale of the whole of the property ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s123 ) . |
| 21 | By contrast , the issue of social mobility has been almost entirely ignored by contemporary spatial analysis , even if the issue of social mobility has been one of sociology 's concerns . |
| 22 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 23 | This more complex account of the process of levels of social formation interacting is reminiscent of Althusser 's theory of overdetermination . |
| 24 | The boy featured is one of John 's few boy artistes : Little Barnette |
| 25 | At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund . |
| 26 | The final influence on the functionalist style of public law to consider is that of pragmatism . |
| 27 | In the book Marje writes that her 53-year marriage to husband Sidney had been devoid of sex . |
| 28 | Alida had been conscious of Dorothea 's married state , hating her for it , burning with scorn at the preoccupations and trivialities of a marriage . |
| 29 | Ever since she was a little girl Maxine had been terrified of water . |
| 30 | ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match . |