Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy was present on that path , by his own statement and actions , he had , however he might regret the act afterwards , cause to be rid of a man who could accuse him . |
| 2 | To enable full use to be made of a machine materials used in the food environment need to be ‘ dishwasher proof ’ . |
| 3 | But for the most part we shivered in our beds that winter , heaping on more and more blankets , which seemed to be made of a mixture of cardboard and lead and only increased the weight without increasing the heat . |
| 4 | He typically determines the nature and level of the demands to be made of a polluter . |
| 5 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 6 | On the other hand , it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin . |
| 7 | To hold that " reckless " bears a subjective meaning would be consistent with the definition in the tort of deceit : one would not wish a person to be convicted of a crime when he would not be tortiously liable . |
| 8 | You are obliged by law to inform your local water company in writing at least five working days before making certain alterations or additions to your plumbing system ; there would be stiff penalties if you were to be convicted of a contravention of the water bye-laws . |
| 9 | In arctic and alpine environments the surface is often seen to be composed of a layer of angular rock fragments commonly described by the term felsenmeer and attributed to the operation of frost weathering . |
| 10 | In the brain , the olfactory system appears to be composed of a sequence of layers of nodes with no obvious geometric structure . ) |
| 11 | Although the Commissioners from the counties required to be possessed of a freehold within the county which they represented , there was no necessity after the Union for a person who represented the City of Edinburgh , or any of the fourteen Districts into which the other burghs were divided , to be possessed of any property within the burgh . |
| 12 | The woman whom the man and the bear were tormenting — for this was how Cecilia saw it , as torment — at least had the good fortune to be possessed of a magazine , which she was now pretending to read while the bear cavorted in front of her . |
| 13 | In both cases one needs a common belief in the social role of justice and in its priority to be assured of a compromise . |
| 14 | Harris research director Robert Waller may not care to be reminded of a quote attributed to him in The Independent on Sunday on March 8 at the start of the campaign : ‘ Oh yes , it 's exciting . |
| 15 | No less is to be expected of a vehicle sold with a manufacturer 's warranty . |
| 16 | The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre . |
| 17 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 18 | However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier . |
| 19 | Applied to directors , this would mean that they would be required to exercise such care and skill as is reasonably to be expected of a person occupying the relevant position . |
| 20 | And it remains to enquire to what extent other associative abilities experimentally revealed in other species approach those to be expected of a creature able to use linguistic symbols . |
| 21 | ‘ But in the Government 's view the Department 's handling of the case was within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Ridley defended the DTI 's handling of the case and insisted it was ‘ within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator ’ . |
| 23 | It was , however , a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed . |
| 24 | ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury . |
| 25 | Besides , to be demanded of a sponge , what replication should be made by the son of a king ? |