Example sentences of "being the [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is for the policeman concerned to develop a local knowledge of his area , to show a presence and develop friendly and informal contact with members of the public , although one was adamant that his role remained primarily one of crime detection rather than prevention , this being the responsibility of community relations . |
| 2 | It is not enough , therefore , to set aside these issues as being the concern of others . |
| 3 | Rod boasts one of the most impressive CVs in showbusiness — the highlight being the Prince of Wales 's Symphony for the Spire at Salisbury Cathedral , an achievement which earned him a BAFTA award . |
| 4 | That had been strange enough , but stranger yet was a footnote to the file : a footnote that revealed that far from the Aristotle File being the work of Soren Berdichev , as was claimed on the file itself , it had , in fact , been compiled and authored by the boy . |
| 5 | For the past 100 years , art historians , including Sir John Pope-Hennessy , have accepted the sculptured figure as being the work of Tullio Lombardo , dating it from about 1525 . |
| 6 | The general strategy was to make a 10 per cent cutback in all board activities , with the Council 's highest priority being the protection of support centred on scientists and engineers in universities and polytechnics . |
| 7 | The protection of business secrets is one of the two grounds upon which a restraint of trade clause can in general be justified ( the other being the protection of customer connections ) . |
| 8 | His record for the Urdd and the community generally spans four decades , from being the secretary of Llangwm Aelwyd , where he grew up , to founding and leading two senior branches at Capel Garmon and Bro Cernyw . |
| 9 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 10 | In 1919 a single warrant was signed alleging such an emergency ( the excuse being the threat of Bolshevism ) and interceptions have continued on this basis , with the exception of wartime censorship from 1939–45 , to this day without debate or approval by Parliament . |
| 11 | However , all suffer from a variety of implementational difficulties , the most common of which being the problems of knowledge acquisition and inefficiency . |
| 12 | That 's because the development of 48 two bedroom flats enjoys prime views over Meggetland playing fields , famous for being the home of Boroughmuir Rugby Club . |
| 13 | Indiana , besides being the home of Quayle , has voted Republican every year since 1940 except for the Lyndon Johnson landslide of 1964 . |
| 14 | This authentic canal house lays claim to being the home of Mata Hari . |
| 15 | Horkheimer and Adorno in The Dialectic of Enlightenment insisted upon seeing the development of irrational racism as being the development of liberalism , as practised in an illiberal society . |
| 16 | Note first , however , that categories being the invention of critics and books being the creation of writers , seldom will any of these sub-genres of crime fiction be without something of the others in it . |
| 17 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 18 | The petrological analysis has not been compared with the distribution of die-sets , yet the sheer volume of material , about 200 vessels from about twelve sites , one being the settlement of West Stow in Suffolk , might seem to argue strongly that the products are from a single workshop . |
| 19 | But second key-noter Dr Arno Penzias , vice president of Research at AT&T 's Bell Labs , who besides being a Nobel prize winner has the additional claim to fame of being the boss of Unix creators Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie , disagreed . |
| 20 | General ( butcher ) Franco led the Falange ( fascist ) troops , supported by thousands of Moors and Italian infantry , fascism being the brain-child of Mussolini , Hitler 's ally . |
| 21 | Discourses on punishment and dictionary definitions of the term clearly specify the central feature of punishment as being the infliction of pain rather than the loss of liberty per se ( Hudson , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Conscious of being the trapper here , and unaware of being the gull of Don John 's plot , Claudio moves uneasily between verse and prose , comedy and seriousness , not fully at home in either . |
| 23 | After the rillettes came turkey escalopes in cider , Calvados and inevitably , this being the heart of Normandy , cream . |
| 24 | Indeed , the conditions created by the electoral system were seen as being the heart of Britain 's current problems . |
| 25 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 26 | In some cases the State conducting the investigation ( by virtue of being the State of occurrence ) sought only to exonerate the services ( chiefly air traffic control and navigational services ) from any involvement in the cause of the accident while at the same time being content to attribute the cause of the accident to some shortcoming on the part of the pilots without seeking to find out why they made such mistakes . |
| 27 | Art , being the alter-ego of Religion , reflects this trend , albeit at an intensified rate . |
| 28 | ‘ The shadow of the dome of pleasure ’ flashes past on the waves like a sequence of film , while the poet reflects on what he has seen previously , the only thing now remaining being the sense of wonder amidst the conciliation of paradox and the momentary solution of metaphysical inquiry : |
| 29 | maintenance is the support of litigation by a stranger without just course ; champerty is an aggravated form of maintenance , its distinguishing feature being the support of litigation by a stranger in return for a share of the proceeds . |
| 30 | The first couple of songs are effective but so-so , the only real interest being the size of Matt 's guitar . |