Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 2 | Eventually , the boys decide to start a fire going , this shows the amount of damage they are capable of but it also shows they can cooperate . |
| 3 | A time-scale should be set for the achievement of each of the steps identified , accompanied by a system of monitoring which is independent of those concerned with accomplishing the aim . |
| 4 | Well there 's an element of subjectiveness , inevitably , in an assessment , I think , but of course we are aware of this problem and we do try to be a objective as we possibly can . |
| 5 | For the fun of it Len Shackleton played in goal and of course he was full of tricks , shaping to punch or catch the ball on the edge of the penalty area and then controlling it on his chest , things like that . |
| 6 | Of course I am aware of what she found in Moscow . |
| 7 | Yes , of course I 'm frightened of what might happen . |
| 8 | Oh in the morning I awake , my arms my legs my Oh my is full of shit my is full of shit it 's full of shit , shit and . |
| 9 | Oh in the morning I awake , my arms my legs my Oh my is full of shit my is full of shit it 's full of shit , shit and . |
| 10 | The court was , I think , going no further than was necessary to decide the case before it : the corporation was a private corporation formed under an Act of Parliament which was capable of holding property and of carrying on a business . |
| 11 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 12 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 13 | If you are cutting your food , you automatically calculate the size of piece which is capable of fitting into your mouth … and the process continues throughout the day . |
| 14 | Amongst the key molecular components of the membrane are a number of proteins which are capable of forming reversible chemical links to phosphate ions . |
| 15 | These allow the translator to use a chain of reference which is typical of English ( Your Majesty → he ) as well as avoid creating other chains which can only be inferred . |
| 16 | In order that providers of vocational education and training can meet these challenges , SCOTVEC has developed a framework of awards which is capable of delivering a flexible and responsive system of qualifications and of meeting the challenges of the future . |
| 17 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 18 | The nomes exchanged meaningful glances , and the kind of meaning they were full of was : She 's fooling herself , but it 'd take a braver nome than me to tell her . |
| 19 | Effective RE must therefore be concerned with the building-up of concepts which are worthy of a person 's total development , emotional , experiential and intellectual , and which fairly represent what is at the heart of all great religious traditions . |
| 20 | The leper saw no problem in trusting the power of Jesus — it was the compassion of Jesus he was unsure of . |
| 21 | I 'm not the kind of person who is afraid of letting a woman take charge professionally , personally — or sexually . |
| 22 | It is obvious that for any group of companies to grow , a good balance is required between those which continually need cash injections to stay in business ( the capital-intensive type of enterprise which is typical of much of the chemical industry ) and those which can generate very high profits and throw off cash when things are going well . |
| 23 | The significant feature of this use is the fact that the infinitive always evokes a type of behaviour which is characteristic of someone or something . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs argued that the auditors had to use a basis of valuation which was capable of producing a figure which represented the fair selling value of the shares , and that if that basis were challenged , the court could decide whether the basis was such a basis . |
| 25 | Our , most of our rules and most of our laws are made by people who are frightened of losing their property , and not the sort of people who are frightened of being mugged at night . |
| 26 | The kinds of people who were aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who followed them in the mid-term . |
| 27 | While assignment may go hand in hand with such assertoric force in positive statements , it clearly does not do so in questions , nor in subordinate clauses like that in : ( 34 ) I wonder if the taps were turned off Questions and such subordinate clauses show clearly that an idea of completeness which is independent of that of assertion is necessary . |
| 28 | The use of stylometry in authorship attribution studies depends on the hypothesis that there are quantifiable features of style which are characteristic of particular authors . |
| 29 | He was the sort of man who was aware of his simplicity and of the advantage which people continually took of it . |
| 30 | Slave traders fomented a kind of disorder which was characteristic of relations outside God 's rule . |