Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of current figures , Wheeler has pointed out that there are 97 species of flowering plant for every botanist , but 425 species of insect for each entomologist . |
| 2 | It is said that there are surviving accounts of repair work done to the mill both in 1744–5 and 1751–3 . |
| 3 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 4 | ‘ Our sales people are two-way channels of information ; they are n't there just to tell booksellers about our books , though obviously that 's a very important part of it . |
| 5 | They differ from older forms of association in that they are two-way trades of complementary strengths among competitors . |
| 6 | Although they were eventually eaten , the Hamwic sheep were not reared primarily for eating , and there are lower quantities of fowl and poultry than at early- and middle-Saxon farms . |
| 7 | As for the tabloids , additions to the range of publications have either been arm's-length extensions of existing publishing groups ( Today , 1986 — ) or born out of existing publishing houses ( Mail on Sunday , 1983 — , Star , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | Since these states of affairs are of the essence of human perceptual consciousness and , therefore , of the human mind , it must follow that there are non-physical states of affairs essential to the human mind . |
| 9 | We can see , then , that Weber agrees with Marx that the crucial economic features of capitalism are private ownership of the means of production , and markets for goods and labour . |
| 10 | We have seen that both Marx and Weber see contemporary Western societies as capitalist , and both agree that the crucial distinctive features of this are private ownership of the means of production , and a market for labour . |
| 11 | Dick had been assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1938 to 1955 and , as has already been explained , was no friend of the leading men of the Labour party in the years after the War . |
| 12 | The portraits of Lady Charlotte Burgoyne ( c1771–2 ) and an anonymous woman in a pink dress ( c1772 ) are ample proof of this . |
| 13 | For a long time deemed a white , Western organization , the setting up of section sin countries like Tunisia , Algeria and South Korea , are ample illustration of Amnesty 's worldwide stature . |
| 14 | Nor does the need for more fertilisers for purposes of modern agricultural methods pose any problem , as there are ample supplies of phosphates and potash . |
| 15 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 16 | Horatian metres both dictate and accommodate Horatian syntax ; in every poem there are striking effects of word order which , on the one hand , may be said to have been contrived , or willed by the poet , but on the other can be seen as arising from metrical necessity . |
| 17 | They are striking symbols of the changeless eternal city . |
| 18 | There has been scanty analysis of either the individual members of the household 's different structural relationship to housing , or of households that do not comply with the nuclear family model . |
| 19 | They are deeply-felt songs of pioneering days ; for instance : |
| 20 | Consumption and saving are stable functions of current disposable income . |
| 21 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 22 | It seems likely that these eye movements are involuntary symptoms of neurophysiological events taking place during REM sleep , with no direct relation to the images generated during dreaming . |
| 23 | Thus , the fact that in the UK parts of the City control parts of manufacturing industry , and that within firms ( and also between them ) there are hierarchical divisions of labour , between levels of management , for instance , or between management and the shop-floor , or between professional/scientific workers and manual workers , or between sectors , means that there is inequality structured into the division of labour . |
| 24 | The most affected areas are rural pans of areas in western Jutland. 6 per cent of the population ( 300,000 people ) receive water with a nitrate content above 50 mg NO&sub3 ; /l , mostly from private wells . |
| 25 | There have been conflicting reports of raised levels of neutralising , circulating antibodies to adenovirus 12 in coeliac disease patients . |
| 26 | All three are inherent components of the natural earth surface processes that occur in arid and semi-arid regions but have been exacerbated by human activity . |
| 27 | ‘ You see , dear boy , what you have stumbled upon are classic cases of what has happened to me . |
| 28 | Externalities and public goods are classic cases of market failure where intervention may improve allocative efficiency . |
| 29 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 30 | Arterial pseudoaneurysms are classic complications of pancreatitis , especially when pseudocysts are present . |