Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [coord] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is useful to understand here that in the ancient middle east pearls were among the most precious of gems and were highly esteemed as personal ornaments . |
| 2 | Crystallization is a process involving the orderly arrangement of chains and is consequently associated with a large negative entropy of activation . |
| 3 | The easiest way to find the wide range of cover you need at a competitive price is with a policy which packages together a number of covers and is specially designed for a certain group such as self-employed tradesmen . |
| 4 | In addition , the president is constitutionally responsible for the making of treaties and the appointment of ambassadors and is effectively put in charge of foreign policy . |
| 5 | Bruises of the periosteum of bones ( it lies on the surface of bones and is easily injured where the bones lie just beneath the skin , for example , elbow , shin or kneecap ) . |
| 6 | In the 1970s and 1980s , left-wing guerrilla groups moved into the cities , trained teenagers in the use of weapons and were then pushed back in to the countryside by the army . |
| 7 | These occur in nearly all orders of insects but are best developed in the more primitive groups ( Orthoptera , Dermaptera , Isoptera , Odonata ) ; in the higher orders they are more or less reduced . |
| 8 | Although the method has drawbacks , particularly that it is difficult to eliminate duplications from the results , it has the merits of being simple , and giving reasonably consistent results with a number of observers and being readily repeated . |
| 9 | She had worked for him and her mother in a variety of businesses and was always assured that she would inherit his estate when he died . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I am very pleased that this operation , which has involved a whole range of bodies and been well co-ordinated by Scottish Natural Heritage , has been so successful . ’ |
| 11 | Some instant coffees are associated with problems similar to wheat-sensitivity in a number of patients and are better avoided along with wheat . |
| 12 | Nixon betrayed his trust in a number of ways and was justifiably forced to resign ; however , the collapse of his presidency turned on relatively trivial matters . |
| 13 | The policy was a product of Chatichai 's influential group of advisers and was reportedly opposed by the Foreign Ministry itself ; in August veteran Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila was replaced , largely because of his opposition to Chatichai 's Indo-China policy . |
| 14 | By ‘ social action ’ Weber refers to action ‘ which takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course ’ . |
| 15 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 16 | Our policy , both for nuclear and conventional defence , is clear , has been set out in a number of documents and is properly costed . |
| 17 | Social tension , as we shall see , is an assessment of social relations that springs readily to the lips of anthropologists but is rarely examined with much psychological sophistication , or even an awareness that it is a psychological phenomenon as well as a social one . |
| 18 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |