Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb mod] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the agrarian south and east of the continent , the character of society was dominated by two classes of very different size : a body of wealthy landowners , still often enjoying the prestige and privilege and sometimes the legal and noble status of its feudal forebears , and a huge mass of subordinate peasants , some of whom might be freeholders , but by and large economically dependent on the landowners . |
| 2 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 3 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 4 | The only exception to this rule is the London Society which , because of its large size , nominates five members , at least two of whom should be business members . |
| 5 | Chaired by a judge of the High Court or a higher court , it has 16 members , a majority of whom must be persons other than practising or academic lawyers . |
| 6 | It did n't come well from a girl who took her clothes off every night in front of an audience of five hundred , at least half of whom must be men . |
| 7 | This is particularly important because we are now moving into an era when many of Britain 's first wave of home-owners will be bequeathing homes to relations , many of whom will be home-owners themselves . |
| 8 | WACC is supporting a training programme for a team of 15 ‘ verbal stringers ’ ( or reporters ) , at least half of whom will be women . |
| 9 | It should be clear that nenko seido , the combination of lifetime employment and seniority-based wages systems , applies only to the core employees , almost all of whom will be males ( Matsuura , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | How , for example , does one allow access to such material by genealogists , many of whom will be computer illiterate , unfamiliar with research strategies and only interested in tiny potions of vast data sets ? |
| 11 | The Senate of the Inns of Court consists of 101 barristers ( some of whom will be judges ) representing the profession of barrister ; some are appointed by the benchers of each Inn , some are ex officio members like the leaders from each of the six circuits , and some are elected by members of the Bar . |
| 12 | If that choice is not to the liking of those with voting power , many of whom will be ratepayers , they can make their views evident through the ballot box . |
| 13 | After all , some of them might be football supporters . |
| 14 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 15 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 16 | Some of them may be men like John , forced by their male pride and their self-image to suffer in silence . |
| 17 | All of them would be colour versions . |
| 18 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 19 | ‘ But some of them must be business contacts , surely ? ’ she said helplessly . |
| 20 | There are a lot of barriers that exist between people and training some of them could be things like they do n't have access to child care it could be they lack confidence so we go for support and we can offer training which is local we can offer language support . |
| 21 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 22 | They could be doing it on a Yes well ninety per cent of them will be P five . |
| 23 | One of the greatest things that I have become aware of is that if you have eight people to dinner , one or two of them will be vegetarians . |
| 24 | Most of them will be MPs with seats in the House of Commons , where there is a premium on party loyalty and discipline to ensure that the measures proposed by the Cabinet can be passed into law with the minimum of amendment . |
| 25 | A high proportion of them will be synonyms — if the file is 85 per cent packed , for example , 17 in every 20 would be expected to be synonyms — and this will lead to rapid deterioration of the file access speed . |
| 26 | Some of them can be issues relating to these energy matters that we have been discussing , and in fact one of the aims of introducing this form of discussion is that science is often seen as a very factual subject — that you just receive and learn the facts . |
| 27 | You 'll find quite a few of yours will be May |
| 28 | This difference is crosscut by one of the major questions addressed by Bourdieu in his earlier work ( 1977 ) but largely ignored in Distinction , which is the balance between objectivist approaches such as those found in archaeology , and subjectivist approaches , the most extreme of which would be design history or the study of Chicago homes . |
| 29 | I would be apportioned my six — half of which would be business — Joyce would set about her one hundred and sixty-six . |
| 30 | If the matter is one the direct outcome of which may be trial of the applicant and his possible punishment for an alleged offence by a court claiming jurisdiction to do so , the matter is criminal . |