Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mergers between existing companies under the Act are possible between companies of the same type ( partnership with a limited partnership , Kft with Kft , ) , and a Kft may merge with a joint-stock company . |
| 2 | I have always believed a greater range of expressions are possible through representations of the real world . |
| 3 | I have always believed a greater range of expressions are possible through representations of the real world . |
| 4 | Thirty police officers , some of them armed , have surrounded the two bedroomed bungalow , and the area has been sealed-off to members of the public and the media . |
| 5 | Since the abolition of exchange controls in the UK in October 1979 it has been possible for residents of the UK to hold foreign currency on account if they so wish . |
| 6 | Humphrey of Bassingbourn 's wood of Bamfield , and the dowager Countess of Pembroke 's manor of Thorpe Waterville had likewise been adjudged to be part of the forest of Rockingham ; the Prior of Kenilworth complained that his wood of Wolverton , pertaining to his manor of Salford Priors in Warwickshire , and Robert Burdet that his wood of Arrow had been re-afforested as part of the forest of Feckenham . |
| 7 | The capital costs are high on account of the specialised nature of the machines required for the production line . |
| 8 | All watersports , with the exception of scuba diving and deep sea fishing are complimentary to guests of the hotel . |
| 9 | But we are wrong in thinking of the sense as something — some thing — behind the sentence . |
| 10 | But we are wrong in thinking of the sense as something — some thing — behind the sentence . |
| 11 | There are two small beaches and a short boat trip away , the beautiful Ile Aux Cerfs offers deserted coves , restaurants and beach bars , and a wide range of watersports ( which with the exception of scuba diving , are free to guests of the hotel ) . |
| 12 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 13 | Or , to put it in another way , there must be at least two non-synonymous descriptive phrases of which it can be said both that they are co-extensive in respect of the given non-meaning and characterise this non-meaning in an essential way . |
| 14 | The distinctive patterns formed by leaf scars are visible on fossils of the bark , which is often found in coal and in the deposits overlying ones containing roots . |
| 15 | you 're you 're not concentrating so you need to concentrate a bit on making sure that you finish off like you know somebody 's somebody 's passed to you 're right in front of the goal all you 've got to do is tap it in and you think , Oh anyone could do this which foot should I no problem |
| 16 | She says that they 're delighted at news of the vacinations . |
| 17 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 18 | They react to requests for help with specific topics and resources but they are proactive in terms of the health promoting school and in teacher education . |
| 19 | Because our lives are measured in decades , and even our civilizations and dynasties are measured only in centuries , we are accustomed to thinking of the map of the world , the outlines of the continents , as fixed . |
| 20 | ( It refuses to take seriously the claim that central-system processes - thinking — are explicable in terms of the causal interplay of representations . ) |
| 21 | Lakatos 's theory gains support if it can be shown that episodes in the history of science , that have been inexplicable in terms of rival methodologies , are explicable in terms of the methodology of research programmes . |
| 22 | Women face impossible difficulties in trying to combine the roles of mother , paid worker and unpaid domestic worker , and when marriage breaks down the consequences are obvious in terms of the vulnerability of lone mothers and their children to poverty . |
| 23 | HL lists consist of three highly positive followed by three highly negative adjectives ; LH lists consist of three highly negative followed by three highly positive qualities ; GD lists consist of adjectives gradually descending from highly positive to highly negative traits ; and in GA lists the order of adjectives is reversed ; R lists are random in terms of the adjective evaluation . |
| 24 | But when the judge , and the Lord Chief Justice , express their views on the period a particular prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , they are involved in part of the same consideration as they would be when deciding a proper determinate sentence for a serious offence other than murder . |
| 25 | I think that we are confident from indications of the way things are going . |
| 26 | A score of 40 — 55 would include high risk countries , but with some possibility perhaps for profits that are reasonable in view of the high investment risk that would be involved . |
| 27 | Those potential students are all in favour of the idea . |
| 28 | The latter role has received growing attention in recent years , with a trend towards extending the scope of public sector auditing to include an assessment as to whether departments and agencies manage their operations efficiently and whether their programmes are effective in terms of the objectives by which they were initiated . |
| 29 | Similarly , statements such as ‘ the study of cytokines in the placenta is just starting ’ are nonsensical in light of the rapid advances highlighting the crucial regulatory role that growth factors play in reproductive processes . |
| 30 | Drawing largely on the Marshall Berman/Perry Anderson debate , and thereby making of Modernism the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity , itself conceived as a response to capitalist modernisation , Callinicos seems to want to claim in essence that both the former are partial in respect of the fact of this last . |