Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solid defence is the hallmark of a well-taught student . |
| 2 | The most striking change was the presence of a manual which describes policies and practices of the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress , offers advice on classing difficult areas and explains how to choose between related numbers . |
| 3 | Due diligence is the investigation of the vendor 's business by the purchaser and its advisers before contracts are executed . |
| 4 | Adequate professional preparation is the result of the developing relationship between theory and practice . |
| 5 | The outstanding instance is the choir of Canterbury Cathedral , rebuilt by William of Sens ( so-called because of his work on that French Cathedral ) in 1175–84 . |
| 6 | Normally to raise funds the houses could think of selling off bills but with a general shortage of liquidity the only possible buyer is the Bank of England . |
| 7 | The other and perhaps stronger motive for regional bloc-building is the hope of increasing collective bargaining power . |
| 8 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 9 | A NEUTRAL Budget for the agricultural industry was the verdict of Suffolk farmers ' leader Roy Goodwin . |
| 10 | Articulated grief is the gate of newness . |
| 11 | Another key element of Bush 's economic programme is the promotion of free trade and investment . |
| 12 | Who on the allied side was the equal of any one of them ? |
| 13 | The first of the four stages in the creation of regional consciousness is the assumption of territorial awareness and shape . |
| 14 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Relations between the Vikings and European civilisation is the theme of the second part of the exhibition . |
| 16 | For this reason Bilson ( 1981 ) wrote the speculative efficiency hypothesis as : where the right-hand side is the rate of change of the exchange rate and is called the ‘ forward premium ’ . |
| 17 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |
| 18 | From a strictly legal standpoint there are serious doubts as to whether the private key is the equivalent of the paper ocean bill of lading . |
| 19 | The gurgling noise was the rattling of Thomas trying to breathe through a restricted windpipe . |
| 20 | Different board is the outcome of the P A G inspection ? |
| 21 | Another favourite technique is the use of multiple narrators to give differing views of the same reality . |
| 22 | Most important for our concern here is the way The German Ideology is the culmination of Marx 's critical discussion of the place and significance of the State . |
| 23 | The primary engine of historical change is the transformation of the economic sphere , which progressively establishes and extends humanity 's conquest of nature and moves towards the elimination of material scarcities . |
| 24 | But while England was coming to be seen as a reasonably important power after having looked very weak in the middle of the sixteenth century , a more conspicuous change was the emergence of the Netherlands . |
| 25 | Yet the inherent authenticity and force of such mystical experience are the heritage of all and within the potential grasp of all human beings . |
| 26 | Social circumstances and social change is the task of the rest of this book . |
| 27 | The only public sign that magical vengeance has been successfully practised against a suspected witch-murderer is the cessation of mourning by the family of the original victim . |
| 28 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 29 | If it fails this latter test then it is difficult to attach the label of intelligence to it , for surely the raison d'etre of a commercial building is the provision of an environment that maximises comfort and organisational efficiency at a reasonable cost . |
| 30 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |