Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [be] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partners in the first firm of solicitors were also partners in the second . |
| 2 | All these sorts of considerations are also aspects of routine policing . |
| 3 | The other two types of charters are basically contracts of affreightment . |
| 4 | The young men who made up his troupe of ghosts were seldom nonentities . |
| 5 | Little over 15 per cent of farmers are now tenants , and fewer than 2 per cent own no land of their own , most tenanted land being rented to supplement existing holdings . |
| 6 | The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation . |
| 7 | There are at least as many home records as synonyms in all circumstances ( Table 6.5 shows that , even with 100 per cent packing and randomizing to individual record positions , 50 per cent of records are home records ; with a two-pass load 63 per cent are home records ) . |
| 8 | Reports of genital carriage vary widely , but 20% to 25% of women are probably carriers in most countries . |