Example sentences of "be [noun] of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 After all , rhyme and metre are forms of equivalence which distinguish a very great deal of poetry , yet nowadays few would maintain that the presence of either or both is a necessary and sufficient condition for defining a text as poetic .
2 There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art : for example , classical ballet .
3 There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky .
4 They also agreed that classes are aggregates of people who are distinguishable by one or by a combination of the following : wealth , occupation , manners , standard of living , power , material possessions .
5 In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches .
6 Having been Chairman of BNFL I would like to contribute as a Chairman in the future … and that , I believe , is how I can make my best contribution .
7 However , numerous external small cracks or a single large crack are signs of movement which need expert investigation by a structural engineer .
8 There undoubtedly are cases of parents who exaggerate their child 's ills , and who are determined to blame them on some physical cause , when family .
9 A fuller discussion of international aspects takes place in Chapter 7 , but it is worth noting that there are cases of companies who entered into export agency agreements when they were small and exporting was relatively unimportant to them .
10 Conversely , a significant proportion of the companies operating in this country are off-shoots of enterprises whose head offices are situated abroad .
11 ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place !
12 And for everybody whose joined after , I think it was last January , we make sure that there is a job description , and that they are given one when they join , and we keep on file erm , but I know that there are loads of people who have been here longer than that some people have got them and they are out of date .
13 I bet there are loads of people I could get on with .
14 Firstly , mid-classes are groups of phonemes which are easily confused at an acoustic-phonetic stage of processing : thus and are grouped into one mid-class , since [ m ] and [ n ] are are often nearly identical from an acoustic point of view .
15 He does not deny that there are groups of workers who are intermediate between these two classes , but he argues that they do not constitute a fully developed class .
16 What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons .
17 In every community there are groups of people who help form your opinions about a whole range of things .
18 In the Marxist view , ‘ classes ’ are groups of people who share the same relationship to the means and organisation of production .
19 It is arguable that differences in attitude between worker and management — ‘ us and them ’ — are inevitable while there are groups of people who carry those labels ; the great divide is too much a fact of organisational life , part of the fabric of ‘ norms , that each new recruit is taught .
20 Hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) and hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) are groups of chemicals which , because they contain hydrogen atoms , are being substituted for CFCs .
21 Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years .
22 In order for the dialogue to function effectively , there are rules of procedure which all participants have to accept .
23 There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow .
24 In view of this complementary relationship of grammar and lexis , it is not surprising to find that there are units of meaning which are intermediary between lexical words and grammatical structures , the existence of which again indicates that there is a continuum between these levels of language .
25 These are lists of choices you are offered at certain points .
26 These components are characteristics of speech which are constantly present and observable while speech is going on .
27 Such a statement implies that there are aspects of poetry which may not be so easily teachable .
28 And these are sorts of facilities which we 'll will need if we 're going to erm enable central I S or I T departments to use and therefore charge back that facility to each of the departments using that resource .
29 Th there , there is a , there is a problem erm in that the invitation from Aida in this case to er issue a statement in general conformity erm confers on , on this committee the opportunity only to withhold that statement if there are elements of plan which significantly fall outside for one reason or other the , the terms of the structure plan and the points that have been mentioned in the er in paragraphs two point four to two point nine in , in er your officer 's views er are not such that the er plan is er unable to be afforded that statement of general conformity .
30 Keith Richardson says it was a welcome win and the 4 tries were very good , but there are areas of concern which the players are aware of .
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