Example sentences of "[det] [is] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is composed of the Heads of State or Government of the member states . |
| 2 | But this is to talk of the nominal or official method of appointment . |
| 3 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 4 | The fine polish of his technique does not disguise the music 's refinements : this is playing of the utmost subtlety , strength and thoughtful insight . |
| 5 | This is playing of the first order . |
| 6 | This is required of the Four Fairies , the Fairy Godmother and the Stars in Ashton 's Cinderella . |
| 7 | Much is made of the distinction between Nature and Culture , and the consequent equation of women with Nature and men with Culture . |
| 8 | Much is made of the sound quality , of which more below . |
| 9 | Too much is made of the exhaustion of war . |
| 10 | Value : Much is made of the money tobacco companies put into sport and ( to a limited extent ) the arts . |
| 11 | Thus , much is made of the need to eliminate " blots " on scholarship such as grammatical slips , error in construction , " tricks " of inversion . |
| 12 | However , too much is made of the distinction between official policies and the lower levels of an organization , and the rotten-apple argument largely misses the point . |
| 13 | Much is made of the age factor by Mr Tim Devlin , the Conservative defender of a 774 majority , for at 32 he is the youngest contender in the country 's closest three-way spilt . |
| 14 | Much is demanded of the participant in carrying out the tasks , but a lot of relevant help is given . |
| 15 | The Junior boys and Cadet girls are defending champions but much is expected of the Junior girls side , with the U-12 girls having an outside chance of upsetting Leinster . |
| 16 | No account either is taken of the other two major dimensions , control and role , with the effect of time also being completely ignored . |
| 17 | Less is heard of the other welfare state , which runs parallel to the ‘ traditional ’ welfare state , and is financed by tax concessions , such as mortgage interest relief and pension contribution relief . |
| 18 | Less is known of the Dani 's fate , but let us suppose that Whitley 's worst fears are justified ( 1989 : 18 ) . |
| 19 | Little is shown of the background to this conflict , and even less is shown of the people who have struggled against the Saddam Hussein government whilst Western aid continued fuelling his campaigns against Iran , the Kurdish people and his own people . |
| 20 | As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors . |
| 21 | Thus a higher duty is imposed ( i.e. more is required of the occupier ) . |
| 22 | Michael Marland has talked about the disappearance of deference and I think that 's the biggest change really that the kind of instant erm response to authority has gone and that has good and bad sides in it , so more is demanded of the teacher because his authority has to be earned , much more even than in the past I think . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 24 | They beat Middlesbrough three two er three one rather , three one on their own ground in the first round er of the first leg that is to say of the er four matches in this particular round of the competition . |
| 25 | In these circumstances I think that Darwin can rest quietly in his grave , that is to say of the acidulous palaeontologists have n't already been trying to dig him up to prove something . |
| 26 | In these lines ‘ the primal sympathy ’ seems to represent all that is left of the relation between Man and Nature ; ‘ the philosophic mind ’ , on the other hand , is a direct reference to Roman Stoicism . |
| 27 | And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash . |
| 28 | DEVASTATION : Smouldering ruins are all that is left of the spot where the doomed Israeli jumbo jet sliced through a block of flats in Amsterdam . |
| 29 | Gradually the expelled layers move off and fade away , while all that is left of the star is the small , dense core , which is at a high temperature and is amazingly ‘ heavy ’ . |
| 30 | Apart from the finds , these represent all that is left of the excavated site , and so are extremely important ; they also represent the investment in the excavation from a financial point of view , which may have cost a considerable amount of money , and it is therefore usual to duplicate them , storing one copy far away from the original records in case of accidents . |