Example sentences of "[adv] [be] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry . |
| 2 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 3 | His mother the Lady Morathi had long been a devotee of the cult . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , Edessa , now Urfa in Turkey , had long been a centre of the twin cult , worshipping the pair under the names of Momim and Aziz . |
| 5 | They 've long been a part of the river 's past . |
| 6 | The American Supreme Court has long been a proponent of the rule : |
| 7 | Mrs Mitterrand has long been a defender of the Kurdish cause and last July toured the area where the weekend air raids took place . |
| 8 | Confiscating savings has long been a demand of the most reactionary groups who think that all private business is conducted by ‘ the mafia ’ , which the confiscation is supposed to hurt ( actually , the most criminalised businesses hold much of their savings in dollars and gold ) . |
| 9 | The fells above Coniston have long been a source of the widely used Westmorland slate ( see Borrowdale ) , but the mountain known as Coniston Old Man and its associated fells are equally interesting as an area of copper-mining activity , and one nearby location is known as Coppermines Valley . |
| 10 | It has long been an axiom of the Labour Party that MacDonald 's actions in 1931 marked him as a traitor to the cause . |
| 11 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 12 | Mint sauce has long been an ingredient of the English Sunday lunch of lamb with the season 's new green peas and new potatoes . |
| 13 | The comments below are a summary of the provisions of the current Yellow Book . |
| 14 | This could obviously cause problems when information is recorded electronically , since any printout will necessarily be a copy of the original . |
| 15 | The sociologically based interview has thus rather more to it than merely being a test of the reaction to Brand X. Here a difficulty does arise though , and it is best to face up to it right away . |
| 16 | Elizabeth was very angry , and so were a lot of the Scots lords . |
| 17 | Set out below is a flowchart of the issues to consider from an FSA perspective when any new assignment is obtained . |
| 18 | Below is a drawing of the African porcupine , a larger rodent that collects and extensively chews bone . |
| 19 | Below is an example of the way you could organise your notes as you preview a story . |
| 20 | It perhaps is a function of the early stage of interpreter development in the UK ( though there are only a very few positive indications that the situation is different in other more developed countries ) and one can expect a change of provision , attitude and therefore skill . |
| 21 | We do perceive snow as being cold and white in itself ; but since our doing so is a result of the texture of primary-quality corpuscles , there is no need to suppose snow really is as we perceive it . |
| 22 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 23 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 24 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
| 25 | She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end . |
| 26 | More than just a pastime or a pursuit of Olympic excellence performed by an elite few , the worthy aim of teaching every child to swim 25 metres by the age of 11 will soon be a part of the national curriculum . |
| 27 | It is the sort of minor collision that happens every day but it could soon be a thing of the past . |
| 28 | THAT bane of the working mother , the repairman who promises to call ‘ sometime ’ , will soon be a thing of the past — according to BT boffins at Martlesham . |
| 29 | PAYING for satellite telly may soon be a thing of the past . |
| 30 | This sight may soon be a thing of the past on the Snowdon Mountain Railway . |