Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real significance of reliability is something rather different : it is the reliability of knowing that there is something to fall back on , with family support acting as a safety net if really needed . |
| 2 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 3 | While he had known of the groundswell of resistance to the regime , experiencing it outside of jail was something else . |
| 4 | To Luce , a work of art was something intrinsically beautiful or fascinating , something produced with skill or merit that stirred the senses and provoked pleasure or sadness , or some more complicated response . |
| 5 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |