Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] be that of " in BNC.
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| 1 | BNP will offer high income multiples of up to four times the first income ( which has to be that of the professional ) plus three times the second . |
| 2 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 3 | This is manifested through the unity of supposedly civilized life and the most elementary barbarity on a level which appears to be that of the basic ‘ need ’ which Eliot had accused the anthropologists of ignoring . |
| 4 | He had ascertained during daylight that the lavatory was diagonally across the passage from his room door , and , as the passage was now unlit and he was unable to find the light switch , he crossed the passage in the dark and , by feeling his way , came to a door which he believed to be that of the lavatory , but which was in fact a door leading to the basement . |
| 5 | It appears to be that of a forty to fifty year old prince or aristocrat . |