Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scot may be fourth victim of IRA sniper |
| 2 | Although adopting an integrated problem based course may be one way of achieving elaboration , Dr Coles believes that such radical approaches are not essential . |
| 3 | Since users ' ability to appropriate most of the benefits of innovations is likely to be particularly evident in industries where spillovers or positive pecuniary externalities inhibit independent R&D by suppliers , it follows that co-operative R&D ventures amongst suppliers and user-led innovation programmes may be alternative methods of reaching the same goal . |
| 4 | If we assume that this ratio is stable and repeat our earlier point that banks will normally be looking to expand their lending as a source of profit , then it follows fairly obviously that a change in the availability of base money to banks must be matched by a change in the size of the total balance sheet and that this latter change must be some multiple of the change in the size of the base . |
| 5 | Rebecca may be proud mother of the flawless Michael , and well-adjusted mother-out-law of delightful Noah , but some conversational terrain still needs mineswept . |
| 6 | His critical approach to ill-conceived treatment and ill-considered research may be one side of a coin . |
| 7 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |
| 8 | In such cases melatonin might be some sort of ‘ darkness indicator ’ and some have even called it an ‘ internal time-cue ’ . |
| 9 | The annual losses would be 708 tonnes of mutton and lamb ( total UK production in 1975 , 258,000 tonnes ) ; 610 tonnes of beef and veal ( UK , 1,166,000 tonnes ) ; and 109,090 Kilos of wool ( UK , 51 million kilos ) . |
| 10 | If they make too long a line in one direction , it will be corrected by a shorter line somewhere else , and the result will be some modification of the normal vision , which is a natural error in the vision of the artist , and which constitutes his style . ’ |
| 11 | The there 's a widespread idea that if you let people have guns the result will be more crimes of violence and more murders , and therefore , people conclude , er at least they do in this country , that only the state should have a monopoly of firearms , so only the police and the army should be allowed to have firearms . |
| 12 | Targeted revenues could top four billion pounds a year and provide a war chest for good causes such as sport and arts , the treasury 's cut will be twelve percent of proceeds , leaving a honey pot of six hundred million pounds of turnover a year for the operator . |
| 13 | If approval for septic tanks can not be obtained , the only alternative will be sealed cesspools of a capacity not less than 4000 gallons . |
| 14 | Freezing and canning can be reliable methods of preserving foods but the cook-chill method is inadequately regulated . |
| 15 | Heavy drinking may be 2½ pints of beer , or five glasses of wine or measures of spirits per day . |
| 16 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) have suggested that school experiences may be critical sources of selfesteem for children lacking supportive home lives , and that this in turn enhances their capacity to plan their lives . |
| 17 | In an attempt to prevent any repetition of the scandal , the board decided that all senior management should be full members of staff . |
| 18 | A typical combination of elements might be 20 minutes of full screen , full motion video , 5000 high resolution stills , 6 hours of audio over the stills and the equivalent of about 15,000 pages of text . |
| 19 | An additional benefit would be close scrutiny of the DISTRICT , costing process which is urgently needed to identify and justify considerable variations across the country . |
| 20 | And wielding the axe on the prison plan would be one way of saving money which would not provoke a public out-cry unlike some of his other targets in the health and social security budgets . |
| 21 | The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum . |
| 22 | The way in which the teams organise their work will be one focus of analysis : another will be the teams ' differing locations ( in observatories or universities ) , and the extenbhich their designs are influenced , not only by ‘ scientific goals ’ , but also by their perceptions of other important ‘ reference groups ’ ( eg other users , or committees considering the design of later facilities ) . |
| 23 | Research has shown that so-called Machiavellians can be effective manipulators of other people . |
| 24 | The sociological fantasy that pop musicians could be some sort of organic intellectuals was remarkably stubborn ; it dominated initial left-wing responses to punk , and it was only when the material basis of the fantasy — youth as class — broke down in the late 1970s recession , that different ways of conceiving pop politics began to be attractive . |
| 25 | The motivation behind this research , carried out by H. Greenfield , J. Maples and R. B. H. Wills , of the School of Food Technology , University of New South Wales , is the recent concern in the medical profession that too much salt in the diet may be one cause of the high incidence of hypertension among people in the developed countries . |
| 26 | The laws of war may be one means of bringing about harmonisation : the very first multilateral laws-of-war convention of the modern type , namely the 1856 Paris Declaration on Maritime Warfare , was concluded because there had been divergent practices among the allies involved in the Crimean War . |
| 27 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 28 | Thus the conclusion must be that profitability of British industry declined , though not on the pattern suggested by Bacon and Eltis . |
| 29 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 30 | We could not include such a group because of practical difficulties and limited medical manpower ; also there would be inevitable concern that individuals agreeing to be part of such a control group would be self-selecting members of a group with additional risk factors . |