Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the feeling that you must of necessity always be at the client 's beck and call , and some clients have been known to take advantage of this situation . |
| 2 | Otherwise , what can be seen of Patrington today is of the 18th century or later . |
| 3 | The Crisis and Truce Model rests on the assumption that the difficulty of management today is in finding an opportunity to use authority . |
| 4 | And then he claims that the list of circumstances above were among the factors needed to produce the revolution in Russia . |
| 5 | Perhaps the biggest area of misunderstanding here is in our approach to our American customers and competitors , where we are lulled into complacency by our similar language . |
| 6 | The CEMWC 's suggestion of 17 , as opposed to 16 as the age of consent then was for heterosexual relations , was made on the basis that the higher age would provide ‘ better protection of youth ’ . |
| 7 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 8 | Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ? |
| 9 | Greater specialisation can also narrow horizons : ‘ For me , the highest pinnacle of achievement now is to be the director of a broadcast production . |
| 10 | The variety of colour here is in contrast to the simplicity elsewhere around Augusta ; all white clubhouse , lush greenness and yellow flags . |
| 11 | A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with . |
| 12 | The only means of advance now is for those able to buy the council house in which they live . |
| 13 | In fact , a new career opening or a new way of life altogether is on offer around the 29th which ca n't be refused . |
| 14 | Watching the Secretary of State today was like watching Jesse James leading a bunch of desperadoes governing the country like a bunch of robbers . |
| 15 | Unaware of how common this outburst of activity really is among housebound cats , they interpret it as some sort of abnormality and may even call in the vet to examine the animal . |