Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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1 The first 11 cantos are preparation of the palette .
2 ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’
3 Most of the downland woods are west of the Arun gap and , apart from plantations , beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) is the dominant tree , although it rarely regenerates , and where no replanting takes place ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ) quickly asserts itself .
4 I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district .
5 I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time .
6 I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the
7 Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street .
8 Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice .
9 A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago .
10 It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’
11 In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall .
12 It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test .
13 And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself .
14 It had been part of the creed of childhood , indeed , the whole of life , unquestioned as so many other maxims were unquestioned , respect for parents and elders , the courtesy of men towards women and the inferiority of women to men , and original sin .
15 Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years .
16 The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything …
17 Mr Lyons has been part of the team which restructured Labour 's industrial policy , the fruits of which were seen in John Smith 's alternative Budget .
18 Admittedly , the Barbarians were considerably below their traditional strength because of the priorities of the cup and league matches in England and Wales but I doubt if the Barbarians would have lost to South Korea if scummaging had been part of the game .
19 Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success .
20 These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction .
21 While World Cup matters have only been part of the Board 's committee business this week , the speculation as to whether Welsh reservations would carry weight has been immense .
22 It is organised in year groups and faculties and has been part of the Cheshire ‘ Cost Centre ’ scheme since 1976 .
23 ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested .
24 Later in this book , when discussing the divine nature , ideas of existence and of the self that have been part of the debate over theism will be discussed .
25 The grim reality of the war was reinforced when Gad Gross , who had been part of the JB group , was killed by Iraqi soldiers on 29th March .
26 With boundaries go hedges , and some of those still remaining have been part of the farmed landscape since Saxon , or possibly even earlier , times .
27 They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire .
28 The landaus have been part of the scene for longer than the trams .
29 She spoke of her with a feeling of pity and horror difficult to understand — until one recollected that ‘ B ’ block , now modernized and comfortable , had been part of the old Workhouse building .
30 Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century ‘ citizenship ’ had been part of the civilizing process ; so it was not without reason that T. H. S. Escott , writing in 1897 , described ‘ Social Citizenship ’ as ‘ a Moral growth of Victorian England ’ , probably best exemplified by the Settlement Movement , beginning in the 1880s , with its emphasis on ‘ civic idealism ’ .
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