Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [be] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents ' sense of disempowerment was at this stage complete . |
| 2 | Althusser is emphatic that the means of production are just as essential to the fashioning of theoretical products as to something like shoemaking , which plainly requires leather , tools , etc. , and he points out that the Marxist concept of labour is in this sense irreducibly material . |
| 3 | The Kingdom of Heaven is like this . |
| 4 | Much of ecology is about this process : finding energy ; putting it to use . |
| 5 | parochials — whose world is largely bounded by the ward , individual constituents and their problems ( 15 per cent of sample were in this group ) ; |
| 6 | In many family-run businesses , the source of authority is of this kind . |
| 7 | Despite some disappointments , the general progress of science was by this time undoubted , and a source of pride even to those not connected with it . |
| 8 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |