Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 2 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |
| 3 | Also the effect of boiling has been mentioned . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The Sids of old have been given their share certificates and they are reluctant to give them up . |
| 5 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 6 | He said Fisher 's plea of guilty had been a mitigating factor . |
| 7 | It seems most likely that an appreciable quantity of unreduced bis(2-azidoethyl)ether was still present in the ‘ diamine ’ . |
| 8 | The evidence however clearly shows that this sort of wholesale forgetting is normal while we are asleep . |
| 9 | The ‘ aristocratic ’ character of landowning has been a central basis for social status and political power in Britain for centuries , and the divisions of interest between land and industry have been fundamental to the political development of the upper class . |
| 10 | Thus the dreadful smogs of pre-1952 have been eliminated and the emission of noxious and offensive gases limited . |
| 11 | Other evolutionary theories of ageing have been proposed . |
| 12 | And er I 'm not saying they 're ill treated cos they 're probably not , but there 's different ways of ill treating is n't there ? |
| 13 | The use of symbolic addressing is not fully exploited to cope with pre-existing forms of citation and for automated authoring of large quantities of text . |
| 14 | Shades of grey have been used to represent the different land-cover classes . |
| 15 | A world where every Western youth culture since the dawn of teenage has been assimilated so completely that Tokyo has become a sociological Disneyland . |
| 16 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |
| 17 | Among the aristocracy the growth of vast entails was consistently favoured by lawyers ' evasions of the ‘ doctrine of incompatibility ’ , designed to prevent accumulation of entailed estates . |
| 18 | The author of The Cloud of Unknowing had been able to overcome a deep historical prejudice in his enthusiasm for Greek spirituality . |
| 19 | Hilton was rooted in patristic and scholastic theology and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing has been profoundly influenced by the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite . |