Example sentences of "of [adj] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strongly stereotypical Creole features should be salient and positively valued as a symbol of identity , so we would expect these particular features of Creole to be accommodated to by everyone who attempts to engage in " chattin' Patois " . |
| 2 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 3 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 4 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 5 | They seem , in practice , to treat Cabinet government as a chunk of modelling-clay to be pummelled and fashioned by the prime minister of the hour . |
| 6 | My understanding is that he will try to find half-a-dozen wood processing / wood craft companies whose adverts would feature within the eight pages of editorial to be supplied by COED CYMRU . |
| 7 | There are no general regulations in the UK governing the type of medium to be used for archival recording , although some regulations stipulate additional conditions for electronic records ; and certain authorities have the right to require that their approval is obtained before a company relies exclusively on electronic records , for example : |
| 8 | By the early years of the 1980s , there was sufficient breathing space for the second-order problem of self-improvement to be addressed . |
| 9 | But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions . |
| 10 | I sincerely trust you will not allow the pages of Science-gossip to be defiled by it ’ . |
| 11 | For this sense of heavy to be selected , the notion of ‘ consumption ’ in the immediate environment seems to be a prerequisite . |
| 12 | Her individualist skipper — Sub-Lieutenant R.C.M.V. Wynn RNVR — had devised an engineless torpedo with 2,200lb ( over 450kg ) of explosive to be launched at close range . |
| 13 | The Packs contain 16 pages of cardboard to be cut up into picture , word , letter , and number cards , together with a Teacher 's Guide offering instructions for using the cards in conjunction with the Activity Books . |
| 14 | It has signed a letter of intent to be acquired by the Hauppauge , New York-based peripherals conglomerate North Atlantic Industries Inc for about $7m in cash and shares . |
| 15 | There 's lots of fun to be had at camp — everything from cooking over an open fire to building gadgets out of sticks and string and singing round the camp fire . |
| 16 | The Annual Closed Week at the beginning of October enables a formal programme of stock-checking to be carried out : in October 1990 a total of 46,182 volumes were thoroughly checked . |