Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other type of damage is chipping of the salient angles of microtine teeth , where whole corners of the tooth are broken away ( Fig. 1.5D ) . |
| 2 | The kind of case is comprised of the situations described in the statute which the tribunal has to determine . |
| 3 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 4 | Ewa Kuryluk , in her study of female creativity , Veronica and Her Cloth , focusses on the saint 's veil as a key symbol of the act of representation : she created the vera icon or true image of Christ 's face , when she wiped his face and it was miraculously printed on the cloth in blood , sweat and tears.5 The body of art is born of the body itself , and women have a special relation to the fecundity , through their ascribed — and actual — part in the reproductive cycle . |
| 5 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 6 | The first known secular literature in Slovene was composed of the baroque poems of an Augustinian friar , Marko Pohlin , written in the mid eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Many " awkward " classes become much less so if some exploration in depth is attempted of the kind of points discussed in this chapter . |
| 8 | These typical senses of the infinitive are summed up in the table below : The bare infinitive is therefore no less versatile than the to infinitive in being able to express a happening as real or only potential , which is not surprising given the fact that the to infinitive is composed of the preposition to + the bare infinitive . |
| 9 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |