Example sentences of "[be] of [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now , Mr Major 's biggest fear has been of revenge attacks on the 2,400 British troops . |
| 2 | None of the attackers , all of whom had been of subject races , had survived to be questioned . |
| 3 | But not all station encampments have been of rail travellers . |
| 4 | Although once most usually seen in winter , nearly all records since 1938 have been of passage birds at the coast . |
| 5 | In the Electoral College , Reagan 's victory had been of landslide proportions , but the popular vote told a different story . |
| 6 | The levelling-off will be due to the coincidence of the smaller birth cohorts of the pre-war years entering old age whilst the larger war and post-war cohorts are of working age . |
| 7 | Of every 100 people in this country 55 per cent are of working age . |
| 8 | Bn estab by scientists tt all races are of eql intell , except prhps egg-&-spn race . |
| 9 | The majority of buckets found in early Anglo-Saxon graves are of stave construction , bound with bronze and whose construction requires the same control over materials as a cooper . |
| 10 | The majority of children whose parents separate and divorce are of school age and a significant amount of their time will therefore be spent at school . |
| 11 | ( b ) Activities for school children Local authorities must provide appropriate care or supervised activities outside school hours and during the school holidays for children in need who are of school age ( s18(6) ) . |
| 12 | To first order in we obtain with the help of eqn ( 7.3 ) excluding the products in Γ because they are of order h 2 . |
| 13 | First , ‘ the national interest demands that woodlands should be managed in accordance with the principles of good forestry ’ , and second , where they are of amenity value , the owner has ‘ a public duty to act with reasonable regard for amenity aspects ’ . |
| 14 | There are of course passages where Klemperer 's gravitas is amazingly powerful , as in the first movement , but the first ‘ Nachtmusik ’ requires greater momentum if it is not to appear diffuse . |
| 15 | Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests . |
| 16 | There are of course others : such reinscription has worked via minimalist perversion — for instance , the complete defacement via minimum change as in the street graffito which blackens one tooth of the billboard toothpaste ad , or the MLA panel paper : ‘ A thing of beauty is a boy forever ’ — a difference of barely more ( or less ) than a single inverted letter ) . |
| 17 | There are of course problems in bringing up a Down 's child which are not present , at least to the same degree , in bringing up a child without Down 's Syndrome . |
| 18 | There are of course divisions of opinion as to the idiomatic nature of Brahms 's writing , and none of these pieces lie easily within the hands . |
| 19 | There are of course cases where the implications of ideas about communication have been thought through and subjected to more accommodating interpretation . |
| 20 | Erm modern theorists of human rights just start from the position that human rights are of course self evidently inherent in each individual , I 'm thinking for example of erm Nosette In the tradition of , of natural , in the natural law tradition which Locke erm erm shares erm there is a basic position which runs throughout them all and that includes incidentally even Hobbes to the effect that erm we do n't just have rights as individuals , we have rights for a very particular reason . |
| 21 | There are of course areas of the city that are notorious for their bars and sex shows , but even there the atmosphere is lively and interesting ( ! ) and you can just walk past ! |
| 22 | There are of course difficulties in compiling any such table . |
| 23 | There are of course difficulties merging technologies as variant as HP 's and Tivoli 's which is object-oriented . |
| 24 | There are of course things to see , places to visit . |
| 25 | There are of course things to be said also about Egypt and Carthage . |
| 26 | There are of course reasons why people do not set goals : they may not realize the importance of goals ; they may not know how to set about it ; or more importantly , they may have a fear of failure . |
| 27 | The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this . |
| 28 | There are of course arguments on both sides … |
| 29 | It is very easy to read him wrong , and to make mistakes , and there are of course occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity which it would be ridiculous to , to try and develop . |
| 30 | These two types of process , on the one hand serial and on the other parallel processing of memory , are of course extremes , and there are many intermediate possibilities ; it becomes quite hard to design experiments which will unequivocally distinguish between them . |