Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there are plenty of reasons to be unalarmed by the economic outlook for 1991 . |
| 2 | He accused the Ministry of Defence of being involved in a cover-up . |
| 3 | The case is one more illustration of the extreme technicality of the law relating to the sentencing of juveniles , and the need to simplify the provisions governing the relationship between two forms of detention which are likely at least in this type of case to be indistinguishable from each other in their implementation . |
| 4 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 5 | But there 's no room for anyone of course to be complacent about the growing er demand of the needs of children er a subject of such importance here . |
| 6 | Whatever may be its points of similarity to , or difference from , other countries ' villages as social institutions , it has very special qualities of picturesqueness , not of course to be confused with quaintness . |
| 7 | It takes a lot of patience to be friendly towards people who at first seem hostile and resentful . |
| 8 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 9 | Must an item be able to fulfil all four functions of money to be able to be classed as money ? |
| 10 | It is rare , today , for a substantial Act of Parliament to be comprehensive of the matters it deals with . |
| 11 | Currently under review , the regulations list six categories of industry to be subject to IPC , namely : fuel and power , metal , mineral , chemical , waste disposal and other industries . |
| 12 | The US pavilion is a dull rehash of a Barton Myers design used in a previous exposition and will need a super-human input of labour to be ready on time . |
| 13 | At some stage in her sleep of exhaustion she drifted close enough to the surface of consciousness to be aware of a deep voice exclaiming over her , of strong arms that lifted and carried her , but in no way could she fight her way up from the smothering blanket of physical and mental fatigue . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like the public to have a crusade against crime and change their attitude from being forgiving of crime to being considerate of the victim , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , ’ said Mounce , ‘ I 'm not going to give you a lot of crap about being pure as the driven snow myself . |
| 16 | But the question is , can he both maintain that monads do not reduce to bundles of qualities and continue to adhere to his principle of indiscernibles without being guilty of a serious inconsistency ? |
| 17 | It could not be done by direct supervision because of the inability of management to be present at the face frequently enough . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 19 | And even when the same lender is involved , different types of business may carry different rates ( it is common , for example , for rates of charge to be higher on HP for older cars than on HP for new ones ) . |
| 20 | The one who made most of this influence was Walpole , Prime Minister for 21 years and an effective wheeler-dealer who tended to go beyond mere cogency of argument in persuading the House of Commons to be compliant to his will . |
| 21 | Thibaud V was held by John of Salisbury to be one of the most learned lawyers of his day ; Philip of Alsace was a man of rare competence ; other princes gathered around them their band of learned advisers , their counsellors on whose pronouncements they could depend . |
| 22 | This bizarre outcome results from the application of an ancient and technical rule of law which requires the maximum duration of a term of years to be ascertainable from the outset . |
| 23 | If the purchaser requires the right of rescission to be available between exchange and completion , the vendor is unlikely to agree to the transfer being deemed to occur during the interim period . |
| 24 | Some proposals for block contracts ( DoH 1989f ) at first sight do appear to be population based , eg ‘ the DHA might , for example , require a specified number of beds to be available to a DHA 's residents whenever required for a defined area of treatment together with the appropriate facilities for treatment ’ , but this does not indicate who is responsible when these beds are all occupied and more ( emergency ) cases arrive . |
| 25 | ‘ He was not the sort of person to be involved in drugs . |
| 26 | This development underlines the need for the manager of education to be knowledgeable about the broad field of government initiatives for employment training . |
| 27 | Dalrymple 's evil vindictiveness is shown by the wording of a letter he wrote to the leader of the men who were to carry out his plans — ‘ It is a work of charity to be exact in rooting out that damned sept ( clan ) , the worst in all the highlands … . |
| 28 | Cross-cultural studies have demonstrated that Bantu mothers establish night and day dryness by 5 to 6 months of age by being aware of their child 's signs ( de Vries and de Vries 1977 ) . |
| 29 | It is unfair to other members of staff to be late on duty as they can not leave a reception desk unattended . |
| 30 | I wondered why Ralph Pike had n't brought his own packet of eggs to Helsinki , and whether by tomorrow night he would n't have another kind of drop to be worried about . |