Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |
| 2 | Professor Barrie Wilson , Vice-Principal of Edinburgh University , who has been one of those most closely involved with implementing recent management changes , says staff are still mainly concerned with teaching well and doing lots of research . |
| 3 | ‘ Fundamentalism ’ , Islamic and otherwise , has been one of these . |
| 4 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 5 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 6 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 7 | This desolate landscape has been that of much of the earth for the greater part of its history . |
| 8 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 9 | In 1960 , the Acton Society Trust had reported being unaware of any company which had a programme of preparation for retirement . |
| 10 | The next flag to be attacked was that of another friend of Iraq , though this time the attack came from Iraq itself : Turkey 's Buyuk Hun was taken near Kharg . |
| 11 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 12 | It is your bad luck if the warren you choose to ferret is one of these . |
| 13 | Dressing is one of those tasks which we do every day as a matter of routine . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody wants to get old , but ageing is one of those things that 's going to happen and I 'm just going to let it . |
| 15 | The drawing had been published in 1935 in connection with the painting , yet both consignor and Sotheby 's had been ignorant of this . |
| 16 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 17 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 18 | So , what we 've got is four of these books that will go and condense into one copy , |
| 19 | The success rate for the item shown is typical of those obtained and the most popular response : No , No , Yes ; given by 39 per cent of pupils suggests a view that 30 is greater than 11 so Robert is taller than Dean . |
| 20 | Both at home and abroad , the intention is to ensure that the people who are entitled to vote are aware of that fact . |
| 21 | What I tried to do was one of those |
| 22 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 23 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 24 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 25 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 26 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 27 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 28 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 29 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 30 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |