Example sentences of "being an [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth , erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system , there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six , and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time . |
| 2 | Usually religious people tend to see these as different , Sri Ramana 's being an experience of enlightenment and awareness of the Oneness of being , whilst St Francis 's conveyed a sense of communion with God — a sense of a Presence revealing itself . |
| 3 | Although the conflict was perceived in the West as being an invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union , the prime treaty commitment is in the Agreement between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Principle of Mutual Relations in Particular of Non-Interference and Non-Intervention . |
| 4 | But once an instrument is recognised as being an Act of Parliament , no English court can refuse to obey it or question its validity . |
| 5 | Instead of being an act of service , making money and owning things can become purely selfish activities ; and it is in this sense that our Lord issues the warning that ‘ you can not serve both God and Mammon , and tells the story of the very prosperous farmer who is destroyed by his self-indulgence . |
| 6 | Rather than being an act of neglect , this seeming parsimony simply recognise the historical fact of Congress routinely adding money to whatever the president recommends for health research . |
| 7 | When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith . |
| 8 | Being an enabler of pupils ' learning is an unselfish task and " imaginative " teachers do not necessarily excel in qualities of humility and standing back and giving space to others . |
| 9 | Potential expatriates may feel inhibited discussing such personal issues with course tutors drawn from the company payroll in case their anxieties are interpreted as being an expression of inability to cope . |
| 10 | It is a labour of love by a cast which includes some of Scotland 's finest and best known actors , and while being an expression of passion for theatre it paradoxically undermines the title John Byrne gave to the last of his celebrated trilogy . |
| 11 | Far from being an expression of decline the heteromorphs show the ammonoids adopting new ( and successful ) life habits . |
| 12 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 13 | Given that privacy is plausibly one of the necessary conditions for being an explication of consciousness ( see below ) , it seems to me that any establishment of an interesting sense of machine privacy must be relevant . |
| 14 | Some analysts saw this as an attempt by the OAS to affirm its identity as a genuine independent body and to shed the image of being an instrument of United States foreign policy in the region . |
| 15 | Far from being an instrument of struggle against the prerogatives of private capital , and the multinationals in particular , the contract was to provide a means of national reconciliation . |
| 16 | A moral practice , Oakeshott suggests , is like a language ‘ in being an instrument of understanding and a medium of intercourse , in having a vocabulary and syntax of its own , and in being spoken well or ill ’ . |
| 17 | ITV and BBC1 were both soon broadcasting some 13 hours a day ( the main change being an extension of afternoon hours ) — double the amount 20 years earlier . |
| 18 | Existing media programmes , projects and facilities of churches , including the use of airtime on state media , should move away from simply being an extension of catechism classes or a restaging of normal Sunday worship , to address human rights , development , and other socio-economic issues ; |
| 19 | However , this one makes it by virtue of it being an array of versions of General Levy 's fine ‘ Heat ’ rhythm . |
| 20 | However , looking back , and especially looking back after all the interlacements of Volumes Two and Three , one might well think that besides an image of life ‘ the Road ’ has crept up to being an image of Providence . |
| 21 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
| 22 | Far from being an endorsement of discrimination , an excess of difference would disarticulate its very terms . |
| 23 | One phrase of Xenophon 's , about the helots wanting to ‘ eat the Spartiates raw ’ , is no less memorable for being an echo of Homer ( Iliad iv.35 ) . |
| 24 | Far from being an anticipation of Darwin 's theory , Chambers ' whole approach ignored the possibility of explaining transmutation in terms of the natural laws observable in the everyday world of how organisms relate to their environment . |
| 25 | Occasionally whole books were copper-engraved , the most notable example , probably , being an edition of Horace by John Pine ( 1690–1756 ) , which gave an effect of fine precision but was ruinously expensive , since the text was first typeset , then an impression on paper was transferred to copper , on which the engraver exercised his skill . |