Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 2 | Other useful transforms are those of differential and integral functions . |
| 3 | Among the sites listed are that of the 1956 crash of a nuclear-armed bomber aircraft at Albuquerque , New Mexico , and the Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville , Maryland , where scientists used radioactive matter to test the effects of fall-out on crops in the 50s and 60s . |
| 4 | I mean er does it bother you at all that well I mean are most of the men managers ? |
| 5 | Ideas only find favour once an influential person(s) has been convinced of their practicability . |
| 6 | The ETB has been critical of hotel telephone call charges for many years . |
| 7 | Rowlands has been critical of Welsh officials who went to the SA Rugby Board celebrations . |
| 8 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 9 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 10 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 11 | And the reaction has been one of slight stuttering , saying ‘ Er , erm , … well … |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 13 | While Senna 's steady but swift progress made his 20th Grand Prix victory look easy , the reigning world champion says this race has been one of the toughest . |
| 14 | He has been one of the Legislative Council 's most diligent members , a demanding enough job ; he accepted China 's offer of a seat on the Basic Law Drafting Committee , helping to write Hong Kong 's post-1997 mini-constitution , and was embroiled in more unsuccessful arguments for direct elections , opposed by mainland communists and Hong Kong conservatives . |
| 15 | Every one of the scores of abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs which clog the streets around the embassy has been one of the most cherished possessions in its owner 's life . |
| 16 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 17 | In Blackpool the strongest feeling among representatives has been one of relief that the party sang in harmony under stress . |
| 18 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 19 | There is truth in that , also in the proposition that in Western culture the ‘ tragic vision ’ has been one of the most powerful means of containing and sublimating desire . |
| 20 | On Europe the pattern has been one of resistance to proposals but , in the end , accepting compromise . |
| 21 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 22 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 23 | Indeed the conclusion that such diverse aspects of society as religion , kinship , politics , and economics form a linked whole has been one of the touchstones of modern anthropology . |
| 24 | In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms . |
| 25 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 26 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 27 | ‘ Bond has been one of the walking wounded for so long that most people have seen this coming and should have provided against it , ’ a banking executive said . |
| 28 | Since its birth in the 1920s , air travel has been one of the world 's most heavily regulated industries . |
| 29 | For more than fifty years , Danny Holland has been one of the premier cuts men in boxing . |
| 30 | Hallas , 21 , missed an entire season two years ago with glandular fever and has started only 60 games for Hull KR , though he has been one of their mainstays . |