Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the members have been to the shop since then . |
| 2 | Most of the readings taken were with exposures corresponding to a reasonably representative image as displayed on the monitor screen . |
| 3 | Half of the farms visited were in the Peak District and were predominantly livestock-with-grass holdings . |
| 4 | Most of the fossils recovered are of wholly or partly aquatic amphibians , the sort that were easily preserved in the coal swamps that were characteristic of the Carboniferous non-marine environment . |
| 5 | Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information . |
| 6 | Several of the deals had been with Bill Coleby : ‘ Got 2/6 off Coleby for Yugoslav note worth 1s ’ was one which Peter did not remember . |
| 7 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 9 | Most of the radionuclides released are of local or regional concern , because their half-lives are short compared with the time required for dispersion to greater distances . |
| 10 | Many of the refugees have been on the move for several years . |
| 11 | He had previously appointed me as an examining chaplain , as most of the duties involved were in connection with the ordination of European clergy . |
| 12 | An anonymous writer to the Scottish Typographical Circular in 1904 pointed out that " some of the females have been at the trade since 1872 [ over thirty years ] and were grown-up young women when they started " , so they would more or less count as " veterans " . " |
| 13 | Yet , although the excavations began in 1967 and about half of the paintings have been on exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens since the early 1970s , the other half have been neither exhibited nor published . |
| 14 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 15 | One of the students has been in prison and the council has been told it is unlikely that his overpayment can be recovered . |
| 16 | You-find that some of the hearties are doing the pilgrimage for the first time , and begin to limp quite early on ; , that some of the weeds have been on the pilgrimage once or even twice before — and finished . |
| 17 | This covers sales to the fields of business , industry , and education and training organisations , and many of the programmes sold are in the science documentary area . |
| 18 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |
| 19 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 20 | Ten of the fields sampled were in the notorious Peldon area . |
| 21 | The struggle for most of the centres has been for funds . |
| 22 | Most of the executions have been in the old South . |
| 23 | Two-thirds of the marriages investigated were in danger at some point because of sexual dissatisfaction . |
| 24 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
| 25 | Some of the items arriving are in connection with the old LNWR and GWR companies . |
| 26 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 27 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |
| 28 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 29 | In order to try and give the market some confidence the government organised a temporary ‘ buy-back ’ scheme , which provided , in effect , a minimum support price for the shares ( only 2 per cent of the shares issued were in fact returned ) . |
| 30 | Most of the pupils participating were in the fourth year , but some third years were also included in the last round of testing . |