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

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31 One thing that appears in his discussion of them is a preparedness to say that a ‘ simple ’ idea may not be absolutely , and in all contexts , simple .
32 One of them is a vice-president of CND .
33 One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all .
34 But what becomes of them is a mystery , for none has ever been found , even in deep Atlantic .
35 ‘ Nell is nineteen and Marion eighteen , ’ Harry said and , poking his head forward with emphasis , he added , ‘ And neither of them is a beauty . ’
36 One of them is a steroid , which some doctors fear can stunt growth , so there is plenty of room for a therapeutic advance .
37 At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time .
38 T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child .
39 They know about the development of science and its effect on their environment : one of them is a radio ham , another an electronics freak .
40 One of them is the law of return ; another is diversification — as against any kind of monoculture ; another is decentralisation , so that some use can be found for even quite inferior resources which it would never be rational to transport over long distances .
41 The greatest of them is the state , which has everywhere taken on more and more tasks in recent decades which have swollen its administrative archives .
42 One of them is the beginning of the biographical sketch of Ernest Hemingway as it appears in the Penguin edition of his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls ; the other is the same biographical sketch with the order of information in each sentence altered .
43 Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit now comes in a new Windows flavour , and with only six on-screen buttons to push ( one of them is the exit button ) , you ca n't really get any simpler selection of what is very powerful anti-virus software .
44 The children then pretend that one of them is the reflection in the mirror .
45 Many things can cause a failure to collect and one of them is the inability of the poor to pay .
46 The most famous of them is the coelacanth .
47 One of them is the drug that kills cancer cells .
48 In the remainder of this chapter we shall apply the categories in 3.1 selectively to three texts which are comparable both in length and in that each of them is the opening passage of a short story .
49 Aurobindo sees all things as having the same principal of life at different levels , but in all of them is the potentiality and inevitability to reach higher and higher levels .
50 One of them is the host .
51 If we consider how intonation may be studied in relation to discourse , we can identify two main areas : one of them is the use of intonation to focus the listener 's attention on aspects of the message that are most important , and the other is concerned with the regulation of conversational behaviour .
52 ‘ So which of them is the murderer ? ’ asked Pooley .
53 One of them is the Capline System , a 3-metre diameter line that carries about 700 000 barrels a day across the centre of the country .
54 The largest of them is the Monastery of Kaisarani , which has a beautiful situation surrounded by cypress trees .
55 The first of them is the sect known as the ‘ Sons of Zadok ’ , or Zadokites .
56 The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing .
57 Europe has its fair share of such operators but the king of them is the Coventry based Atlantic Group who have established themselves under the banner International Task Force .
58 My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop .
59 In front of them is the kopje , surrounded by Masai .
60 One of them is the geography of decline .
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