Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ‘ freeze-dried ’ and sections of hair were separated to create this style . |
| 2 | THE Ministry of Defence is threatening to abolish all commoners ' centuries-old grazing rights on the Greenham Common nuclear cruise missile base , unless restrictions on the rights are agreed within the next few days . |
| 3 | Barbara Hardy already takes the view in 1975 that some amendment to practical modes of teaching is needed given that many students find no affinity with the Leavisian critical stance , nor " share the faith in Englishness and European civilisation " . |
| 4 | Mr Young said : ‘ A lot of money is needed to allow all the light rail schemes to go ahead , but it 's only a fraction of the cost of the roads budget . |
| 5 | The Department of Industry is trying to tempt more companies to enter this area . |
| 6 | If output and methods of production can be changed so quickly how can the input of labour be varied to accommodate these changes ? |
| 7 | The Council 's Rules of Conduct and Codes of Practice are intended to embrace all engineering disciplines . |
| 8 | A great deal of work is needed to close that conceptual gap . |
| 9 | The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing . |
| 10 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 11 | But still an active event at Stamford , Lincs. , said to go back to 1209 , the citizens deliberately flouted the new law and a squadron of yeomanry was despatched to suppress this minor rebellion . |
| 12 | Two researchers , Joseph P. Maxfield and Henry C. Harrison , planned a system which could record sounds between frequencies of 100 Hertz and 4500 Hertz , and each piece of apparatus was designed to meet this specification . |
| 13 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 14 | A new spirit of interdependence was needed to complement that of detente , he said . |
| 15 | The two senses of différance are needed to explain both the fact that any element of language relates to other elements in a text , and the fact that it is distinct from them . |
| 16 | Alongside such apparent contradictions the very condition of society is claimed to leave much to be desired as life was full of danger and trouble ( Page 1970 ) : ‘ life was cheap and illness , plague and famine were never far from the surface ’ ( Wilson 1976a , p. 13 ) ; weapons in graves point to the ‘ ever-present threat of death by violence ’ ( ibid. , p. 20 ) . |
| 17 | Hamadi Jebali was charged with defamation of a judicial institution under the Tunisian Press Code , under which prior authorization by the Ministry of Interior is required to publish any newspaper or periodical . |
| 18 | A great deal of effort was needed to compile such a record — there were over 90 boxes in Shropshire at one time . |
| 19 | In Such the discourse of astrophysics is used to subvert that of classical psychoanalysis . |
| 20 | It also shows that the next section of commentary is cued to commence half way through shot 17 and that there is no musical background at this point in the movie . |
| 21 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 22 | At this council , the various divergent forms of Christianity were compelled to confront each other and , to whatever extent possible , reconcile their differences . |
| 23 | A glass of wine/whisky/champagne is said to cure all sorts of ills such as the common cold . |
| 24 | This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry . |