Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the behaviour of the political parties is itself endogenous and we have to explain the way in which each chooses its position on the political spectrum . |
| 2 | Have you ever thought it strange that the curse of the working classes is none other than that beloved boardroom nectar that evaporates executive stress and wins over the most capricious of clients ? |
| 3 | One of the delights of the early volumes was their brevity and Pevsner 's idiosyncratic style , but many Victorian buildings were omitted and scholarly thoroughness was sacrificed for speed of compilation . |
| 4 | Because the only records of the ancestral forms are their fossils , without any soft tissues like brains and nerves , the brain structures and behaviour of such ancestors can only be inferred by studying their present-day descendants . |
| 5 | Another of the traditional arguments is what may be called ‘ the parrot argument ’ . |
| 6 | Common to most of the new houses was their careful use of local materials , particularly in timber-framing . |
| 7 | One important aspect of the new sub-committees is their trans-binary nature , having members both from the university and public sector higher education . |
| 8 | Within the couplets that we have examined here , we can affirm , the relationship of the two lines is its unpredictable . |
| 9 | These conflicting demands of the two principles are something of which people are consciously aware . |
| 10 | The Minister will be aware from her files that two of the 62 cases are my constituents . |
| 11 | The distribution of the five hypermarkets is itself a variable . |
| 12 | Hence the undeniable defect of the lower clergy was its low intellectual standards , especially when , perhaps as a result of liberal meanness in the settlements of the nineteenth century , the seminaries stagnated . |
| 13 | Michael Martin , a 50-year-old management consultant and author of business books , spoke for most of the crew when he told us : ‘ The circumnavigation is a fantasy , but one of the big questions is what are we going to do when we get back . ’ |
| 14 | ( Note that in fact neither of the given numbers is itself prime , since 10 113 = 3. |
| 15 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |
| 16 | I used to look at things and think how bonny some of the wild flowers were what nice colours — but I was never aware of their variety or rarity . |
| 17 | which of the three rows were you talking about ? |
| 18 | The husband is also , of course , the victim of this ruse , but in none of the Italian versions is he built up in any way to provide a substantial target figure . |
| 19 | But for one group of enthusiasts , a week in the shadow of the cooling towers is their idea of a perfect holiday . |
| 20 | The comical thing is one of the comical things is there 's quite a lot of money go into some of those corporation houses you know ? |
| 21 | Mammalian carnivores will also kill birds of prey if they can catch them at night on the nest or roost , and many of the smaller carnivores are themselves taken by larger owls or eagles , although not without danger to themselves . |
| 22 | In an XOR gate ( exclusive or ) the output will be one if either but not both of the initial terms is one . |
| 23 | France is now facing its second period of cohabitation between a right-wing government and a socialist president , and if the statements of the conservative leaders are anything to go by , it is likely to be tougher than it was last time . |
| 24 | Among the three-quarters of a million evacuees was one , whom I remember only as Ron , and who was drafted to my uncle 's home . |