Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 2 | In such beleaguered times all sorts of crimes are on the increase , including arson and shop-lifting , and it is undoubtedly a boom time for fraud . |
| 3 | The bulk of receptions are under section 2 of the Child Care Act . |
| 4 | The bulk of translations are from Western languages ( and predominantly English ) into other languages — very little is translated from Chinese or Hindi into Western languages . |
| 5 | Thus , while Corporal Weatherall and a growing force of commandos were on interminable training exercises , or standing by for operations that were cancelled before they got afloat , very few slipped the mesh of authority . |
| 6 | These were that the maximum speed of flights was to be reduced from 835 kmph to 778 kmph and that the amount of time permitted at the lowest level of 75 metres was to be cut from 28 to 15 minutes , with the rest of the flight being made at no lower than 150 metres . |
| 7 | For example , L-future-tenses probably invariably contain a modal element , and the nearest M-tense correlates of L-tenses are to be found in the distinction between past and non-past ( Lyons , 1977a : 678 ) . |
| 8 | If loss of amenities is for the rest of the plaintiff 's life the court will need to take into account in assessing damages his age and his expectation of life . |
| 9 | Outside his father 's rooms he stopped , in the grip of a strong reluctance , but the eyes of others were upon him . |
| 10 | International Literacy Year 1990 , whose programme of activities was to be co-ordinated by UNESCO [ for its announcement in 1987 see p. 35925 ] , was launched on Dec. 6 , 1989 . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the paranotal lobes of insects were at first connected with epigamic behaviour ( Alexander and Brown , 1963 ) but it is perhaps more likely that they were associated with locomotion from the beginning . |
| 12 | The third main contribution of coins to the study of portraits is to their chronology . |
| 13 | Within England , the greatest concentration of inhabitants was in the southeast of the country ( that is , Greater London and the surrounding counties ) , with a population of nearly 17 million . |
| 14 | 56% of doctors are in private practice ; |
| 15 | Atmospheric concentrations of CFCs are about one-millionth of carbon dioxide levels but their role in the greenhouse effect has increased dramatically in recent decades and they may contribute as much as 30 per cent of the greenhouse effect by the year 2015 . |
| 16 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 17 | Two thousand acres of coppices were to be enclosed and planted with oak and beech , and a ‘ rolling programme ’ of further enclosures was projected as the trees matured . |
| 18 | On a desk by the window a tray of stamps was in process of being sorted ; there were bookshelves , a cabinet of shallow drawers presumably for coins , a safe , a filing cabinet , journals and catalogues were piled on the floor and , incongruously , a pier table and a French commode stood against one wall looking uncomfortable . |
| 19 | Before ground was consecrated at Muker in 1580 , the nearest ground to Keld consecrated for the burial of corpses was at Grinton . |
| 20 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 21 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |
| 22 | The excellent soft tissue resolution and multiplanar capability of MRI are of particular value in imaging the pituitary fossa , where the relationship of tumours to the optic chiasm and other important surrounding structures can be shown . |
| 23 | The most fruitful feature of Pythagorean teaching was the key idea that the essence of things is to be found in the concept of number , which was regarded as having spatial and also temporal significance . |
| 24 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
| 25 | For instance , a clause providing for auditors to value shares may state that the auditor is to certify their " fair value " or similar words ( see 3.5 ) ; a minority holding of shares is to be valued without regard to the fact that it is a minority holding ( see 3.6 ) ; surveyors have to assume certain facts and disregard others in establishing a rental ( see 2.3.3 ) . |
| 26 | Looking more closely at the authorities who directly budgeted money , 90% of counties were in this group , and 73% of Outer London authorities ( see Table 18 ) . |
| 27 | Since these states of affairs are of the essence of human perceptual consciousness and , therefore , of the human mind , it must follow that there are non-physical states of affairs essential to the human mind . |
| 28 | A whole new tragic category of bankrupts are in the making . |
| 29 | The statistical , financial and projection skills of actuaries are of particular relevance to this work . |
| 30 | A bag with a change of clothes was in the boot . |