Example sentences of "[pron] be of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if p is false then no matter how sure I am of p I do not know it . |
| 2 | Both are projected activities , for in each case one 's attention is directed away from oneself , which is of course what offers the protection . |
| 3 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 4 | Yes , concert at Holy Trinity church , which is of course our next concert . |
| 5 | And that 's bad news , I mean , and I 'm sure you 'd feel that way yourselves in many I think basically no one welcomes the interfering busybody , as you may be looked upon , but then strangely , and again this is where the ambivalence comes in , when it suits us , you 're of course our knights in shining armour . |
| 6 | Well it 's hard to know where to stop , really erm I mean the , the difficulty of concentrating on one area of the country , is that we 're of course I think there must be very great differences in different areas of the country . |
| 7 | As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives . |
| 8 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |
| 9 | There is of course nothing new in finding new uses : Malmesbury Abbey after the Reformation became Britain 's first clothing factory . |
| 10 | There is of course nothing new in that . |
| 11 | There is of course nothing new in the battle by memoir . |
| 12 | The same is true of the health service , the more the private health educa the pri private health welfare comes in , the less chance there is of people who are , who are articulate and people who count in British society start speaking up with the rest of us and saying come on we we 've got a common interest and a common stake in this service and we want the best po for for everybody and the same will start happening in housing if you get your way . |
| 13 | There was of course nothing new in a patriarchal family structure based on the subordination of women and children . |
| 14 | Oh of course they 're of course they are a great success . |
| 15 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 16 | It 's of course it 's it 's the original tune . |
| 17 | Cheaper to us , erm the trouble with it is of course we never actually add it in . |
| 18 | They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list . |
| 19 | It is of course your duty as a conveyancer to ensure that this does not happen . |
| 20 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 21 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 22 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 23 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |