Example sentences of "[det] be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Britain 's latest ‘ fab five ’ Take That are proud of the squeaky-clean image that has won the hearts of millions of teenagers — and parents too . |
| 2 | Of course , so few are aware of his background and he being , shall we say , a little unorthodox in his dealings with people , never seems to think of it or to realize that in some circles it might be of — of help to him . |
| 3 | And so we do , for the agreement-marking use of " you know what I mean " has spread from the Caribbean community to the wider London community where presumably very few are aware of its Caribbean origins . |
| 4 | But a few are more of a special case than others , and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is one . |
| 5 | Notice that some are capable of non-interlaced operation which gives a virtually flicker free display but you also need a video card that can work with non-interlaced SVGA . |
| 6 | Some are sick of politricks an diplomatic double dealing |
| 7 | Some are afraid of their own tears and the abyss that would open in their lives if they once allowed themselves to make contact with their own pain . |
| 8 | How can this be true of Christian Aid ? |
| 9 | If this were true of him , and if the animal stamina demanded of a Secretary of State were so great , did n't that disqualify good men who lacked only that stamina ? |
| 10 | If this were true of all individuals , then the aggregate demand for money ( MD ) could be written as proportional to money national income ( Y ) : where k is a constant . |
| 11 | Of particular interest is the extent of woodland cover , mainly concentrated in the High and Low Weald , this being one of the most heavily wooded areas in England . |
| 12 | Willows ( of various species ) , sallows and alders are often associated with the ponds and attract wintering flocks of Redpolls and Siskins ; some have breeding Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers , this being one of their main habitats in the county . |
| 13 | This being one of several experiments , involving a limited number of people , its location can be Britain provided the total duration of the course is less than one year and that participants are those who are rooted in action in their own countries . ’ |
| 14 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 15 | Anthropology had begun the slow erosion of certainty of the absolute superiority of European civilization , although only a few were aware of what was happening . |
| 16 | Some were critical of this orthodoxy and — behind the scenes — nobody more effectively so than Toby Weaver , the most powerful civil servant of his generation in the formulation of educational policies . |
| 17 | The degree of amyloid deposition in the myenteric plexuses varied widely ; some were free of amyloid in certain areas , while massive amyloid deposits were evident in others . |
| 18 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 19 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 20 | Some had children of whom they could be proud ; some were ashamed of their offspring . |
| 21 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 22 | This is untypical of British sites . |
| 23 | This is that of a centralised management of all competitive information held within the firm . |
| 24 | The obvious ( trivial ) example of this is that of a defective matrix permuting with itself . |
| 25 | This is that of ‘ no representation without taxation ’ … |
| 26 | This is symptomatic of much more important weaknesses — Charles did not as Gale states ‘ hypothesise a glacial period in the distant past ’ as a stop gap for ignorance — James Smith of Jordanhill and others had already shown that there was good evidence for a cold period on actual fossils . |
| 27 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |
| 28 | In Troy weight this is 0.1125 of an ounce . |
| 29 | This is disingenuous of her , and of Ellis : you do not use a quotation from Blake 's ‘ Jerusalem ’ as your title if you do not want to write a ‘ state of the nation ’ novel . |
| 30 | This is reminiscent of the sort of inversion a fault-finding literary criticism can produce — which is not to deny , which is indeed to admit , that the Arab leaders and polemicists of the region have had their faults , including some of those which have been identified over the years by Commentary . |