Example sentences of "of [noun sg] are [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual aim is to carve up a constituency in such a way that first-preferences will be spread evenly between candidates whose chances of election are judged to be good . |
| 2 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 3 | Redefinitions of chronology are claimed to be part of the process of improvement of understanding , but may as easily be viewed as an infinite series of alternatives none of which are demonstrably correct unless they are somehow related to the reality of the society in question . |
| 4 | Only exceptional damp , unusual cold , excessive rot , and decrepitude to the point of collapse are felt to be legitimate subjects of discussion . |
| 5 | Nerves that communicate with the use of acetylcholine are said to be cholinergic and are found in the peripheral and central nervous systems . |
| 6 | Births in the first seven months of marriage are assumed to be pre-maritally conceived . |
| 7 | The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week . |
| 8 | The final stages of formation are expected to be of the nature of an lhb . |
| 9 | It follows that technically it is possible to dispense with " truth-talk " altogether , and if so , the alleged puzzles surrounding the concept of truth are shown to be more artificial than real . |
| 10 | They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at . |
| 11 | The current levels of service are perceived to be ‘ good ’ with response times rated a little higher than availability times . |
| 12 | No laws of behaviour are going to be formulated which are in any way dependent on the basic physical characteristics of a stimulus . |
| 13 | They are used on a much smaller scale in Britain , but concern over their use and their effect on populations is escalating , especially as certain species of dolphin are believed to be in decline and sightings of porpoises have become rare . |
| 14 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 15 | In the meanwhile , the British system devised by Lord Waverley forty years ago to retain the works of art most essential to Britian 's artistic and historical heritage will be a largely pointless administrative hoop-la as works of art are declared to be national patrimony by the committees of experts , and then are exported anyway for lack of funds . |
| 16 | Increasingly the qualities of leadership are deemed to be desirable for those working in the public sector . |
| 17 | The generic and common names of mint are said to be taken from the Greek myth of the nymph Minthe , who was being pursued by Hades , the god of the Underworld . |
| 18 | The various parts of society are seen to be interrelated and taken together they form a complete system . |
| 19 | Rules of interpretation are thought to be effective in the orderly ascription of meaning to objects and events . |
| 20 | Whether they can predict the future remains to be seen , Short-range time-series projections of fertility are reported to be promising ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1988 ) . |
| 21 | In addition , the specific details of treatment are bound to be influenced by the particular orientation or general approach of each individual unit or ward . |
| 22 | He refrains from criticising the Government 's plans explicitly , but he points out : ‘ Whereas everything is under one roof at the moment , different types of activity are going to be under different roofs . |
| 23 | Synthetic drugs such as quinacrine and chloroquine , were developed to replace natural quinine but some strains of malaria are found to be resistant and doctors are using quinine again to treat malaria in Vietnam , fortunately , trees grow well in Java which is now the main global source . |