Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6.4 Without prejudice to the generality of Clause [ 6.1 a ] each Party undertakes to establish suitable procedures for ensuring that technical and other information of other Parties is restricted to those employees , or as the case may be members of staff or students , needing such information for the purposes of the duties assigned to them and that all such employees , members of staff and students are themselves subject to suitable obligations of confidence . |
| 2 | German cars may be wonders of technology , but fewer people can afford to buy them while they are made in Germany . |
| 3 | The heads of these offices might be men of authority and influence , but they owed little of this to the departments over which they presided . |
| 4 | Exploitation and oppression will be concepts of history which have no place in the description of contemporary social reality . |
| 5 | ALMOST 700,000 Scots will be patients of fundholding family practices in the coming year as interest increases in a scheme once strongly opposed by doctors . |
| 6 | All our variables can be functions of space but are independent of time . |
| 7 | Some examples of facets for the subject of office management would be kinds of office , services and procedures , accommodation , equipment and supplies , personnel , organization , and control and finance . |
| 8 | Where the offshore topography consists of deeper and shallower areas at right angles to the coast , incoming waves will be less retarded in the troughs and so produce divergences , while the shallower areas will be areas of convergence , submarine equivalents of the pattern of waves round headlands ( Fig. 8.7 ) . |
| 9 | Under the SGSA 1982 , in any contract of supply the seller 's or supplier 's duties will normally be strict and excludable only in limited circumstances ( see Chapter 5 ) , whereas , in contracts for the supply of services , the supplier 's duties will be duties of care which will be excludable subject to the reasonableness requirement of UCTA 1977 . |
| 10 | Well marketing could be sorts of things , it could be doing exhibitions which you 've talked about , it could be erm , mail shots , it could be looking , going down the library to do , to look up the electoral role , to look up the names of people . |
| 11 | Disciplinary frontiers should be channels of communication , not iron curtains of mutual unintelligibility and mistrust ; this regrettably narrow-minded approach misconstrues the complementary aims and interests of these cognate subjects . |
| 12 | Cooking became a kind of therapy which he greatly enjoyed , but the results could be bizarre : ‘ things in pastry ’ were a favourite ( the things might be tins of beans and of peppers ) , and sometimes so awful that Dieter and Reid would wait in the car until John had fallen asleep , to avoid having to eat them . |
| 13 | ‘ My grandfather thought that wax museums should be places of learning , too . |
| 14 | Factors influencing demand might be numbers of tourist visitors and growth in GNP respectively . |
| 15 | For instance events or situations in narrative poetry or prose can act as metaphors for a state of mind ; an obvious example would be descriptions of houses in Dickens or Balzac . |
| 16 | First off the presses will be Buildings of Michigan , of Iowa , of the District of Columbia and of Alaska ( priced between £19.95 and £27.50 each ) . |
| 17 | Galaxies , too , tend to clump together in clusters , which in turn may be parts of superclusters . |
| 18 | Lightning , earthquakes , cloudbursts and tornadoes may be acts of God but there seems to be no English decision in which they have been involved . |
| 19 | These two men and their terrorist state may be friends of Peter Robinson and David Trimble , but their feelings towards Ulster , and our people , are in line with the IRA . |
| 20 | The answers must be matters of fact , though disclaimers in the rules would have to be taken into account . |
| 21 | It will be chaired by John Collins , chief executive of Shell UK , and among the 23 other members will be representatives of IBM , ICI , Norsk Hydro and Bowater . |
| 22 | TONIGHT Kenneth Branagh and the cast of Peter 's Friends will be guests of honour at a gala dinner at the Cafe Royale in Piccadilly to celebrate the world premiere of the film and the opening of the London Film Festival . |
| 23 | RWC defended their format on the dangerous premise that aspiring World Cup Sevens sides should be paragons of fitness . |
| 24 | Some of these fellows will be veterans of Caffa . |
| 25 | The Kirkby couple will be guests of expatriates and Kuwaiti people who are honouring the debt they owe to Corporal Keegan and other Allied soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 26 | Coun Buttle told members of the personnel committee : ‘ It 's important to stress that men as well as women can be victims of harassment and sometimes it 's harder for them to admit it . ’ |
| 27 | While it may seem obvious that the anus and rectum of a passive homosexual may be sites of infection and should therefore be examined , it may be difficult for women to understand why this same examination needs to be performed on them . |
| 28 | Above them will be the set of newly retired warriors , while above this set will be sets of elders , their relative status depending on their social ages , who will be responsible for internal political and legal matters and perhaps for communicating with the gods . |
| 29 | There are plenty who hold that beliefs and ( especially ) desires can be causes of action . |