Example sentences of "[be] [adj] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |
| 2 | Since in the pizza query the last two words in the name are descriptive of the business , the Mothercare case is well in point and helpful to the reader and his client . |
| 3 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 4 | Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance . |
| 5 | ‘ The society are supportive of the continuation of the local brick-making industry and the employment it provides . |
| 6 | Both Church of Ireland and presbyterian political ethics in the North are supportive of the union and the forces of law and order , whereas the sects have a more flexible respect for state authority . |
| 7 | ‘ This Government , these men , are guilty of the betrayal of Britain . ’ |
| 8 | But at its heart , the message is a simple one ; the people of Israel have turned their backs on God ; they are guilty of the sin of apostasy . |
| 9 | Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism . |
| 10 | Their pleading averts such a complete disaster , and succeeds in focusing God 's punishment on those who are guilty of the rebellion . |
| 11 | Both are guilty of the crime of war … |
| 12 | There are fifty of the Soldier-folk here in the city itself , under Odhar , and twice as many more in the surrounding fiefs . |
| 13 | But by far the most difficult and tiresome task had been that of the telephone girls , who had made scores and scores of transatlantic calls that Tuesday morning , afternoon , and early evening : calls made to one address that led to calls to another address ; calls to one friend that led to another friend or colleague ; from one police department to another ; one State to other States ; calls for one set of records that referred to another set of records that led … ad apparently infinitum . |
| 14 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 15 | One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory |
| 16 | One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory |
| 17 | Perhaps one of the most creative and imaginative responses has been that of the Lucas Workers with their corporate plan for socially useful production . |
| 18 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 19 | It is not very easy to judge when you are two-thirds of the way through a turn , so turning round a buoy provides a good reference point . |
| 20 | If findings from Liverpool are representative of the rest of Britain then many unnecessary circumcisions are performed each year at considerable cost to the health service and morbidity for the patients . |
| 21 | Where more than two pellet samples are available , for instance for barn owls and tawny owls , the within species similarities observed in bone breakage and digestion are greater than the differences from other species , and this indicates that single pellet collections probably are representative of the species . |
| 22 | The proposals of the six schools selected as the focus for our evaluation are representative of the range of proposals reviewed , and the evaluators are satisfied that the picture which emerges from this sample is true to the general flavour and direction of the Major Project as a whole . |
| 23 | These are representative of the intellectual and intuitive cognitive faculties . |
| 24 | It is also important that the thin sections counted are representative of the sequence studied , thus necessitating preliminary overviews of the thin sections . |
| 25 | The lines of data are of the form ‘ line-number alternative — characters [ destinations ] ’ , and the alternative characters are each of the form ‘ reference-character : confidence ’ . |
| 26 | At the peak of the wave , the open latches are clear of the sinker posts . |
| 27 | This process continues until the chip 's pins are clear of the socket . |
| 28 | The men march with their warders and when they are clear of the confines of the fences for those few steps they are hemmed in by the soldiers and the dogs . |
| 29 | I will wait until we are clear of the island , I thought . |
| 30 | Well , they have been afraid of the Russians for so long that they have learned to live with it . |