Example sentences of "of the [noun prp] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This small corner of the Caribbean is an unqualified and unexpected delight . |
| 2 | The reaction of Ukraine to the Russian parliamentary decision came in a Foreign Ministry statement , reported on May 25 , which said that " the status of the Crimea is an internal Ukrainian matter which can not be the subject of negotiations with another state " . |
| 3 | Gordon Williamson 's Aces of the Reich is an excellent example of the latter type of book , including as it does over 100 biographies of Third Reich personalities who made their mark , not in politics or high command , but up at the ‘ sharp end ’ . |
| 4 | One feature of the debate about the proposed changes in the structure of the NHS is an increased emphasis upon the measurement of the quality of care provided by the different elements of the health care service . |
| 5 | While echoing the Government 's ‘ partnership ’ theme in its rhetoric , and paying dutiful lip service to the principle of laissez-faire , the coded message of the CBI is an urgent demand for more government funding , not less . |
| 6 | In this as in other respects ( see Halliday 1971 : 354 ) the language of the second part of The Inheritors is an interesting blend of the standard language and the norms established in the text . |
| 7 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 8 | Whether this right can be used derivatively by the holder of the FBL is an open question . |
| 9 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 10 | Inevitably there would be variation along the frontiers , and , more important , Frankish control over neighbouring peoples , including the Thuringians , was not constant ; the hegemony exercised by the Merovingians to the east of the Rhine was an integral part of their empire . |
| 11 | The branches and guilds of the RNLI are an example to all the charities in the land both for their dedication and for the results achieved . |