Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers are predominantly members of the public , but some contract work is also undertaken for bodies such as local authorities . |
| 2 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | The 14 senior staff of the Centre are mostly members of the LSE Economics Department . |
| 4 | So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion . |
| 5 | Certainly , prices of fuel doubled in the later sixteenth century although this may have been only part of the general inflation . |
| 6 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |
| 7 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 8 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 9 | But these difficulties of understanding are only reflections of the intellect 's limitations . |
| 10 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 11 | The services provided by the music business adviser are only part of the union 's total commitment to servicing the needs of today 's musicians . |
| 12 | Although these games are only part of the phoney war the results are still important to a country 's prestige and confidence and Brazil would love to add England to their victims when they visit Wembley at the end of March . |
| 13 | Contractions and changes in contact are only part of the programme and an essential component is the specification of where and when they occur — the process of pattern formation . |
| 14 | But such implications are only part of the problem . |
| 15 | Yet these explanations are only part of the story . |
| 16 | These skills however are only part of the story . |
| 17 | Rose goes on to make the point that " parties are only part of the political system and " much of the party 's record in office will be stamped upon it by forces outside its control " . |
| 18 | Attendance rates and truancy levels as performance indicators for schools are only part of the story . |
| 19 | Sometimes , however , they are only part of the full picture , as we shall see in examples below . |
| 20 | But PCB 's are only part of the cocktail . |
| 21 | But PCB 's are only part of the cocktail . |
| 22 | But PCB 's are only part of the cocktail . |
| 23 | But PCB 's are only part of the cocktail . |
| 24 | They did n't seem to care that a number of girls are only part of the way through their courses . ’ |
| 25 | But by and large these are only examples of the gesture as an item on its own , MacMillan is one of the rare choreographers who has used occupational gesture as an integral part of the dance . |
| 26 | Of smaller trees , almost 100% of the wet-season fruiters are animal-dispersed as are only 35% of the dry season ones , of which 21% are wind-dispersed . |
| 27 | But for all that , they are only parts of the political system , and in the chapters that follow we will be attending to the significance of other things . |
| 28 | But from a Christian point of view , so it is argued , ‘ Providers of capital are merely owners of the capital goods … |
| 29 | Hybridizing with other species and forms dampens this ardour to some extent , but some varieties on offer are merely forms of the base species , and therefore can present problems in a small garden where space is limited . |
| 30 | Variations in size , shape and colour are merely peculiarities of the original , as can be seen in many other wild and domesticated species . |