Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relief on the square side is of Governor Tresseno and is attributed to Benedetto Antelami . |
| 2 | The first shot in the movie is of Dustin writing a suicide note on the rooftop of the General Motors Building in New York . |
| 3 | Among the women , the talk is of Kubereka ( childbearing ) . |
| 4 | His last image before switching off the light was of Cinzia 's head lying on the pillow in the centre of a mass of long blonde hair , her mouth placidly sucking her thumb . |
| 5 | The work is of Pope Pius XI , the Milanese Archbishop Achille Ratti . |
| 6 | One example given by Davidoff and Hall is of Samuel Galton , a wealthy Birmingham banker who had also bought land . |
| 7 | The dominant theme of a whistle-stop second half was of Swansea driving towards Harlequins ' line , a shrill blast for a penalty , followed immediately by an even shriller one and Griffiths pacing out a generous 10 metres to silence the Welsh invective . |
| 8 | Budworth ( 1986 ) has shown , however , that reports that 55 per cent of all ‘ significant ’ world inventions since the Second World War are of UK origin are a garbled version of a 1976 report for the United States ' National Science Foundation . |
| 9 | With a heady blend of culture and cuisine , we offer the perfectly balanced holiday for connoisseur 's of France . |
| 10 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 11 | ‘ The second picture is of Sergeant Thomas Williams . |
| 12 | Going back to amplifiers , the third picture is of Cocking 's Push-pull Quality Amplifier , published by WW in 1934 . |
| 13 | Fond as the rector was of Harold Shoosmith , he found himself disliking his intrusion into the present conversation . |
| 14 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 15 | Thus we commend the Bible to be read by the Churches and by Christian families in their homes , as nourishment for their souls , and not to be separated from the sacrament in the liturgy ; we commend modern translations , into the various languages , as a help to understanding ; we commend the people who have the duty of seeking to interpret the Bible in terms of the modern scientific view of the world ; and remind the Churches that all knowledge is of God and therefore that scientific discovery is also part of His work ; and so the world will be brought to know God as its Maker , and the Cross as timeless . |
| 16 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 17 | ‘ By this you know the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is of God , and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not of God ’ ( 4:2 ) . |
| 18 | These greetings are always positive , for with these women all life is of God : whatever trials or disasters are endured , they must be God-sent so all is well . |
| 19 | The word is of Derrida 's own coinage and is deliberately ambiguous ( and therefore not translatable ) , being derived from the French différer which means both ‘ to defer , postpone , delay ’ and ‘ to differ , be different from ’ . |
| 20 | Obvious exceptions were Crown 's 100 per cent ownership of LBC and Capital 's of Devon Air . |
| 21 | As before , the trend was of SDLP transfers going to Alliance , not Sinn Fein . |
| 22 | Today much of the House 's work is concerned with the well being of Glasgow , actively encouraging youth and industrial initiatives within the city . |
| 23 | Oh this is this is you here is it ? the other side of the , cos I know when we tried to take photo 's off John , tried to take photo 's of John on the television because he could n't do it with all the flash or . |
| 24 | It seems worth while to remind the reader just how wide is the range of external informal information sources relevant to business activity ( it will be seen that this list is of US origin ) : |
| 25 | May I commend to him a visit to north Devon and ask him to remember Coutant 's of Ilfracombe and firms like High Temperature of South Molton , Hobart 's , CQC and others ? |
| 26 | The venue was the Radium Hot Springs Resort Hotel and their host was of Toda International Resorts of Canada . |
| 27 | The next shot was of Nicola hunched over a table in a darkened room . |
| 28 | A spokeswoman at Chantry 's Ipswich Ltd said the group was nothing to do with A Baker and was unconnected with Chantry 's of Hadleigh . |
| 29 | But why be wrestling with this God and seeking a blessing from him — other than if one believes that the text is of God ? |
| 30 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |