Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 2 | Use your diary to form a picture of the kind of person you are when it comes to food intake . |
| 3 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 4 | I was celebrating the fact that the publishing world was keen to speak about what kind of book it was and his response was always to talk only about money . |
| 5 | That 's the kind of lad he is and he 's desperate to do well . ’ |
| 6 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |
| 7 | I did n't see what kind of weapon it was that caused the injury . ’ |
| 8 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 9 | But if this pattern is widely adopted , here would be a dimension of democracy which is as yet hardly known at all in the officially democratic West . |
| 10 | You should enquire what type of scheme it is that you would be joining and if it is a money purchase one , how in particular members ' entitlements are calculated . |
| 11 | before you rush off to the local retailer , cash in hand , take a little time to consider the type of runner you are and what you really need . |
| 12 | This arises from the essence of this type of system which is that patients can go anywhere for treatment , and their home authority must pay for such treatment , whether or not it is considered necessary for that particular patient , whether or not that type of treatment figures in the local priorities , and whether or not there are ‘ more deserving ’ cases within the authority . |
| 13 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 14 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 15 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |
| 16 | ( 3 ) The consent of the Secretary of State is not required for the disposal of land which is or forms part of property mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 1 ) above where the disposal is in consequence of the compulsory acquisition of such land by any authority in pursuance of any power of compulsory acquisition under any enactment ; but the Funding Council shall inform the Secretary of State of any such compulsory acquisition . |
| 17 | You can so aim your plot that the events you will have to describe reflect on whatever current preoccupation of society it is that has fired your imagination ; your theme . |
| 18 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was while I was crossing one of the canals on my way back here that I happened to catch sight of you and your friend . |
| 19 | So erm Mill wants to protect minority from within the democratic procedure , that is he wants to set up erm a system of democracy which is as it were proof against majority corruption . |
| 20 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 21 | The author stresses that the nature of assessment is a complex activity requiring skill and being more than the gathering of information which is but a first stage in the process . |