Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] of [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But I am victim of my own background .
2 Buildings which were evidence of its 900 years history have disappeared and their places taken by unremarkable retail stores and car parks so that several references to streets and buildings in the book are difficult to follow .
3 The result is a slightly elusive quality which is part of its singular attraction .
4 Who do you spend your time with her , are your commissioning editors people who are part of your daily life ?
5 The Secretary of State for Education and Science has referred to LEAs ' and schools ' ‘ important responsibility to work towards the promotion of equality of opportunity for the different ethnic groups who are part of our national life ’ .
6 Guarantees to you are part of our domestic customer service — there is no direct cost to you .
7 The moral dogma of the Piaroa disallows , then , violence toward anyone who is part of their this-worldly political and social universe , that is , anyone who is not a total stranger .
8 I began this essay by noting that the moral dogma of the Piaroa disallows violence toward anyone who is part of their this-worldly political and social universe .
9 That , it occurred to her , was something she was doing of her own choice .
10 ‘ In the circumstances , I think we will follow you , but let me remind you that we are envoys of His Gracious Majesty King Henry VIII of England . ’
11 As we are part of our own subject matter , we ultimately find ourselves .
12 Meredith MacArdle of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society , Exit , says : ‘ In a way we are victims of our own achievements .
13 Incidentally , it was he who thought that if the tsarist library actually still existed , then it would be situated beneath the Moscow Kremlin ( to this day there are legends of its sealed-off hiding-places and passages ) .
14 There were reports of their best equipment , the Russian T-72 , being pushed south on tank transporters along the north-south axis .
15 There were spots of her own blood on her suit , so some of Jazzbeaux 's licks must have missed the armour plate .
16 She loved it because there were children of her own age , of every age , and they adored her because she was such a pretty baby to spoil .
17 There were interviews of which oral evidence was given in the inquiry ordered by the visitor but these were found by Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle to be neutral so far as the question at issue falls to be considered .
18 There were aspects of his previous work which contained the implicit basis of his anti-Jacobinism .
19 Firstly , there is ignorance of their synergistic role in the treatment of viridans streptococcal and enterococcal endocarditis .
20 It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’
21 The skills and disciplines to deliver each of these elements is available in Scotland , but will only be effectively utilised if they are part of our overall tourism strategy under one board and not , as now , with a variety of organisations working in partial isolation , and indeed often in competition .
22 The Government fail to appreciate — although they are prisoners of their own rhetoric and ideology — several important points which others readily grasp and would clearly like to do something about .
23 And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them .
24 Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures .
25 They were slaves of their own chemistry , following a blind biological urge .
26 Instead , they were badges of her aroused masochistic passion .
27 Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line .
28 It 's produced by Christian Aid and it 's part of its Christian Aid week 's activity .
29 It 's part of his British tour in May and sixty thousand fans are expected to cram in to watch him .
30 It 's part of my inner soul ,
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