Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 On 2 November 1836 , a year before the last part of Birds was published , Gould wrote to Jardine of his latest ambition : ‘ Would not a work on the Birds of Australia be interesting ?
2 How w what would the units of acceleration be ?
3 ( 188 ) You will make the foes of England be sorry you were born .
4 The problem for Trotsky was thus very similar to the problem which bureaucracy poses for the liberal interventionist , or welfare , state : how can those with the responsibility for carrying out the functions of government be controlled — in this case by a political leadership consisting of dedicated and ideologically sound revolutionaries ?
5 He ordered that the proceeds of sale be treated as if they were the cargo for all purposes .
6 If we demand that the faiths of others be tested , how can we refuse to test our own ?
7 Whatever else may be done to improve public respect for law and order and a love of the truth , it is utterly vital that the sowing of the seeds of conscience be started in the young at the very beginnings of their lives .
8 The Working Party on Training felt that it was ‘ vital that thought be given to the effectiveness of training and that the problems of evaluation be faced ’ .
9 The Library Association Working Party emphasized that they considered it ‘ vital … that thought be given to the effectiveness of training and that the problems of evaluation be faced ’ .
10 And how can the rights of churches be divorced from those of the lands they occupy ?
11 In what other ways may the powers of government be limited ?
12 The archive material has been found to be remarkably full , where it exists , but to have considerable gaps , so that only for short periods in particular cities can the levels of illegitimacy be assessed and compared with regional levels .
13 Am I alone in this room , I wonder , in hoping that at the next accession there may also be a coronation in Scotland , that the regalia of Scotland be bestowed on the Sovereign by the ministers of the Church of Scotland , according to the usage of the Scottish coronation service , long ratified by Scottish law ?
14 Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families .
15 Regina v. Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn , Ex parte Persaud On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Rose J. on 17 September 1991 , the applicant in the second case , Norman Persaud , a barrister , sought inter alia , an order of certiorari to quash an order made by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 31 July 1991 whereby it was held that the applicants ' petition of appeal , dated 28 September 1990 , from the findings and the sentence of the disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court be dismissed .
16 Others have been suggested : to prevent the conduct of government business being unduly hampered and delayed by ‘ excessive ’ litigation ; to reduce the risk that civil servants will behave in over-cautious and unhelpful ways in dealing with citizens for fear of being sued if things go wrong ; to ration scarce judicial resources ; to ensure that the argument on the merits is presented in the best possible way , by a person with a real interest in presenting it ( but quality of presentation and personal interest do not always go together ) ; to ensure that people do not meddle paternalistically in the affairs of others ( query : can representative applicants be accused of this ? ) ; to ensure that the applicant has a personal interest not just an ideological concern in the outcome ( but , query , may not a genuine concern for the interests of others be neither purely personal nor purely ideological ? ) .
17 Why should preferences that are obviously not equal in the minds of voters be treated as if they were ?
18 Could the laws of war be further developed to address the nuclear weapons question more directly and explicitly ?
19 Could the laws of war be further developed to address the nuclear weapons question more directly and explicitly ?
20 Why should n't the women of Greenham be treated like the heroines fighting for freedom in Romania ? ’
21 The identification of chemical hazards requires that the locations of sites be known , together with the dangerous substances stored or processed there .
22 Can knowledge about the mechanisms of LTP be exploited to devise rational therapies for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer 's disease ?
23 In passing , it is interesting to note that the General Orders require explicitly that the grounds of objection be ‘ distinctly stated ’ ; notwithstanding this , it is most unusual to find a petition which does not say that the petitioner objects to the order ‘ for the reasons , amongst others , hereinafter stated ’ , and it is very common for the petition to end with a statement to the effect that there are divers other provisions of the Bill to which objection is taken .
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