Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see a growing demand for the Longhorn from Continental farmers who are moving out of dairying and are looking for easily kept beef cattle that can thrive outdoors all year round , ’ says Mr Close . |
| 2 | But something had gone wrong , he had been betrayed , lost a battle with the forces of chaos and been ejected from the real battleground to languish here , in this cesspit they called " life " . |
| 3 | A scale parameter was therefore estimated by dividing this residual variation ( deviance ) by the degrees of freedom and was used to adjust the width of the confidence intervals . |
| 4 | The midsole is of polyurethane and is moulded with a footframe cassette to create additional stability in the midfoot and heel areas . |
| 5 | Like most Roman churches , the building is of brick and is fronted by a porch and open narthex . |
| 6 | The TT300 programme was not supported by the Ministry of Defence and was dropped in favour of the larger EH.101 utility variant . |
| 7 | The software recognises various dialects of SQL and is positioned as a data access tool rather than proprietary language or executive information system , although it combines elements of each . |
| 8 | The software recognises various dialects of SQL and is positioned as a data access tool rather than 4GL or executive information system ( EIS ) , although it combines elements of each . |
| 9 | Once changes in the classroom have been made and special items of furniture and equipment have been introduced , they usually come to be accepted as a matter of course and are regarded by pupils as ‘ how things are ’ . |
| 10 | All passengers were issued with black plastic bags as a matter of course and were sheeted in when the going was really rough . |
| 11 | The feisty Miss Hoare is fashion director of Vogue and was tipped , wrongly , to become its editor . |
| 12 | Three directors can look at the same page of text and be reading three different pieces . ’ |
| 13 | He generated a lot of enthusiasm and was supported each day by his colleagues from the company who agreed that it was great fun and a huge success . |
| 14 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 15 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 16 | The reference to experience leads us back to Chapter 6 , for the beliefs of all religions arise out of experience and are misinterpreted at a very fundamental level by outsiders who see them as merely forms of words imposed upon people . |
| 17 | Meerkats are a kind of Mongoose and are related to the civets and genets . |
| 18 | He would live for ever with the torchlight glimpse of a wide-eyed corpse dribbling blood from a broken neck and see Miss Tuckey 's eyes above the gag that smelled of vomit and was stained with more blood from he had to realise a deliberately bitten tongue … |
| 19 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 20 | Many people today are becoming increasingly conscious of the environmental factors of consumerism and are limiting their purchases to those which will not damage the environment . |
| 21 | This sign has been painted on a piece of board and is listing badly . |
| 22 | the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation . |
| 23 | The case itself was concerned with the substitution of money but was applied generally to other instances of dishonest conduct . |
| 24 | Clients could also run out of money and be forced to move to other homes . |
| 25 | All had several days ' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing . |
| 26 | In Mensch 's theory the cluster of innovations comes in the depths of recession and is sparked by the low level of profits . |
| 27 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
| 28 | The pyramid system means that the operating unit is at the sharp end of action and is supported by a very broad base of other services which in turn are supported by others all the way down to the base of the pyramid . |
| 29 | Having resigned the post of president and been created vice-chairman , Jack Kuehler does n't see much future at the company and is retiring effective August 31 : Kuehler joined IBM 35 years ago as an engineer in its San Francisco research laboratory and was president of its systems products division when it introduced the 4300 family in 1979 . |
| 30 | It was often a case of deal and be damned . |