Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 2 | We should stress that we are talking of constructional applicability . |
| 3 | Lamm argues that they were made of organic material , wood or bone , differences being introduced by the creation of a number of similar , but not identical , examples ( Lamm 1973 ; 1980 ; Lamm and Lundström 1976 ) . |
| 4 | There is a lightness of touch in the Gothic tracery in the windows ( although it is made of cast iron ! ) and the barge boarding in the central gable is almost like lace compared with the later and heavier Victorian sort . |
| 5 | ‘ I hazard that it is constructed of reinforced megalanium , ’ Jinkwa said . |
| 6 | She looks as if she 's made of man-made fibres you see . |
| 7 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 8 | The sort of questions you might ask will vary according to circumstance , such as : before you join the scheme , if you are thinking of changing jobs , if you are hoping to retire early and so on . |
| 9 | But if you 're thinking of driving , forget it . |
| 10 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 11 | ‘ In fact , ’ says Shelley wickedly , ‘ we 're holding a cocktail party in December and we 're thinking of inviting Prue 's partners . |
| 12 | The talk that night was about experiments carried out to explain why people behaved as they did , and we were told of different types of neurotic people and how they could be classified . |
| 13 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 14 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 15 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 16 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 17 | In fact , the level of independence of inputs required for this sort of system to produce double dissociations is only likely to be achieved if it is composed of complementary modules . |
| 18 | Thomas was polite , matter-of-fact , as if he was speaking of everyday matters . |
| 19 | But he was made of stern stuff Seizing his hammer he begin to bang away with undiminished enthusiasm and by the time the beasts returned the crush was rebuilt and a stout iron bar pushed across the front to prevent further break-outs |
| 20 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 21 | They are designed for single use , but because they are made of formed fabric , they give the appearance of linen . |
| 22 | The weapons are expensive partly because they are made of expensive components , but also because they are time-consuming to develop . |
| 23 | Ants stumble into the pit by accident and , because it is constructed of friable soil or sand and has steep sides , they have to struggle to get out . |
| 24 | It is called the Red House because it is built of deep red brick , an unusual medium for a man of means , who was normally expected to build in something nobler . |
| 25 | The point I would like to make is that while we 're thinking of international relations , that we do bear in mind that United Kingdom is still a United Kingdom . |
| 26 | A prime requirement , whether you are thinking of paid or unpaid work , or for that matter simply planning to devote more time to your hobbies , is to remain fit and healthy . |
| 27 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 28 | That 's your football one is n't it ? that one 's free now , your thinking of vice versa were n't we ? , when I was thinking of big , yeah |
| 29 | For example , when you 're thinking of young children learning to read , teachers like parents to read to their children at home and look at books with them at home . |
| 30 | This Fact Sheet will be followed by a series of Briefing Papers for MPs , which will go beyond the facts to a description of the types of arguments that have been employed by researchers to study the causes of unemployment , including the possible effects so far as they are known of various remedies that have been proposed . |