Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The empirical grounds are that studies of post-merger performance are far from unanimous in identifying improved performance . |
| 2 | The implications for selling as a result of these developments have been that salespeople of fast-moving consumer goods are no longer compelled to sell the products in the old-fashioned ‘ salesmanship ’ sense , as advertising has already pre-sold the goods for them . |
| 3 | The problem has been that descriptions of language in general tended to be based on these special cases . |
| 4 | One outcome of these severe inequalities , sustained over many years by a small privileged élite , has been that opponents of these regimes have resorted to armed struggle . |
| 5 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 6 | Their craggy faces are as safe as old bark to me ; they are but remnants of a petrified forest I have left behind . |
| 7 | Through the vapours I can even grasp at the idea that the hatred and malice of my enemies , their whisperings and pointings , are but emanations of one of the form , of love . |
| 8 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 9 | The trouble seems to be that bursts of information leave a phone at the sort of frequencies which hearing aids are designed to detect . |
| 10 | So it may be that elements of the sibling altruism will develop in families , too . |
| 11 | This is not to say that there are not important distinctions between , say , the large cities , or between declining industrial areas ; individual localities may all show different social relationships ( Cooke , 1989 ) ; it may be that similarities of trends in the 1960s and 1970s were in part coincidental , and that there will be salient differences in the 1990s . |
| 12 | They would deny that the effect in any way proves that polls influence opinion ; it could , for instance , be that supporters of a right-wing candidate are of a generally conservative predisposition , and purchase newspapers which only report polls sympathetic to their candidate . |
| 13 | Alternatively , however , it may be that considerations of meaning take us beyond the scope of scientific method . |
| 14 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 15 | In Nils Enkvist 's words , " styles come into being as aggregates of probabilities of expression in situational contexts , or , more briefly , as aggregates of contextual probabilities " ( p. 129 ) . |
| 16 | For our purposes , the important point is that variants of these intermediate or compromise schemes were propounded by both Protestant and Catholic scholars . |
| 17 | The second statutory safeguard is that copies of any intercepted material must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer required . |
| 18 | The situation in Romania , as described by Baleanu and Bugnariu , is that copies of all Romanian theses are deposited with the ( single ) Central University Library , which then publishes an abstracting bulletin giving summaries of the contents . |
| 19 | To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time . |
| 20 | Birdland 's manager Wayne Morris told NME : ‘ All I can say is that reports of the band leaving Lazy are totally untrue . |
| 21 | The second feature of this modest success is that differences of opinion about tactics and ecology have , generally , been submerged in working towards clearly identified goals which have always been attached to a limited and defined time frame . |
| 22 | The point of the new section is that acts of hooliganism may cause harassment , alarm or distress to those who witness it . |
| 23 | The second hypothesis of this paper is that patterns of regularity in the semantic net can be exploited so as to generate meaningful , linear documents . |
| 24 | A further advantage of COMMUNlTEL is that pages of information can be downloaded from Prestel and saved for further use with , for example , business studies or economics classes or the Prestel pages can be edited for school use . |
| 25 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 26 | The principle I work on is that passages of colour are more rewarding than the dot effect . |
| 27 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most important consequence of what has been described in this chapter is that learners of English must be made very clearly aware of the problems that they will meet in listening to colloquial , connected speech . |
| 29 | The idea is that properties of an object , such as the shape and colour of a thing , could , in principle , exist on their own ( ’ in time' — as opposed to in some more Platonic way ) apart from anything else , whereas good does not have the same possibility of existing as an independent object . |
| 30 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |