Example sentences of "[noun] being [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people 's daily life .
2 But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one .
3 The upsurge in student activism in the late 1860s did coincide with a rise in the proportion of raznochintsy in higher education , many of the newcomers being sons of priests .
4 Now this , this is a difficult thing to , to take on board when we are used to idea of quality being degree of excellence .
5 Trouble was encountered at Coniston with one Michael Knott of Hawkshead who , it would appear , had the possession of certain mining rights on adjacent territory being part of Muncaster Estate Royalties .
6 Never once did we stop even in Templecombe village but made our way through the sleepy hamlet , the houses on either side all boarded up , the only sign of life being columns of smoke and the occasional villager foraging on the outskirts for fire-wood .
7 Not all of the sheets had been accompanied by an explanatory memoir however , the principal reason for this omission being lack of time .
8 But he does , for instance , insert a brief aria-like refrain four times in a recitative scene in Act III for Arsete , the counsellor of the enchantress Falsirena : The important point is that Mazzocchi feared the tedium of recitative , and the theory has been advanced that his score originally contained less of this element , the male alto hero 's part being –full of canzonette' which at the singer 's request were replaced with recitatives by another composer , the monodist and late madrigalist Sigismondo d'India .
9 He summoned scholars and men of wisdom from all over the known world , his main personal tutor and mentor being Alcuin of Northumberland from England .
10 Monogamy also leads to marriages being part of property deals among the ruling classes since marriage becomes part of the process of securing heirs to private property , and once marriage is seen as a matter of passing on property , it rapidly takes on that form exclusively among the propertied classes .
11 The College of Librarianship of Wales , at Aberystwyth , was established as a separate institution in 1964 and is the only one of the schools or departments of Library and Information Studies in the United Kingdom which has such status , all the others being parts of universities , polytechnics , or colleges .
12 Nowadays , with most pipe and cigar smokers being ex-smokers of cigarettes , they may also have transferred their inhalation techniques , despite the irritancy of the smoke : in this case , they will be at significantly greater risk of disease than pipe or cigar smokers who have never smoked cigarettes [ 4 ] .
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