Example sentences of "of [det] [noun pl] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling of some councillors was that the accompanying contract was somewhat ‘ one-sided ’ . |
| 2 | This is consistent with the idea that the importance of such memories is that they provide and anchoring point between personal and public life ( Neisser , 1982 ) or a coherent autobiographical history for the individual ( Conway , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 4 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 5 | The beauty of such gardens is that they are not dependent on scale for their success . |
| 6 | In most cases the only disadvantage of such divisions is that you must pass through one room to reach the other . |
| 7 | One important feature of such factors is that they will tend to shape the person 's capacity to cope with adverse circumstances . |
| 8 | The value of such studies is that they show plainly the ubiquity of popular political action , which may be diffuse , episodic , lacking any clearly formulated doctrine , or expressing itself mainly in religious or cultural terms , but always provides a matrix from which political organizations can emerge in favourable circumstances . |
| 9 | The value of such catalogs is that they prevent too parochial a view of the scientific effort . |
| 10 | The underlying principle of such models is that companies that have a financial profile similar to previous failures are themselves at risk . |
| 11 | One of the great advantages of such journeys is that from this moment someone else solves all practical problems . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most telling of such echoes is that between the stallion 's ecstatic animal cry of " " wehee " " as it races off towards the mares ( 4066 ) and Alisons 's gleeful cry of " " tehee " " after making such a fool , in her way , of Absolon ( 3740 ) . |
| 13 | The great advantage of such trials is that they resolve uncertainty so that an effective measure is more likely to be adopted and an ineffective one more likely to be abandoned . |
| 14 | The main drawback of such workings was that by their very nature they were of only limited duration . |
| 15 | Another advantage of such places is that they often have someone on hand to keep an eye on the exhibitions . |
| 16 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 17 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 18 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 19 | A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance . |
| 20 | The major criticism of such charts is that they assume linear relationships between costs and output , and sales ] and revenue , whereas this is not always true . |
| 21 | A view held by many organisers of such promotions is that the consumer , in economically difficult times , is more likely to be attracted by the opportunity to save money than by incidental free offers or competitions . |
| 22 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 23 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 24 | One analysis of the function of these duties is that they ensure that the directors of the company have sufficient discretion and flexibility to be able to manage the company efficiently , whilst precluding them from exercising this discretion contrary to the interests of the shareholders . |
| 25 | The advantage of these ionomers is that the initial setting process , by photochemical polymerisation , gives the cement good early protection against attack by moisture . |
| 26 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |
| 27 | One of these themes is that Piaget seriously over-estimated the extent to which young children are egocentric . |
| 28 | The result of these decisions is that if the effect of an indemnity or similar provision is to require A to indemnify B against B's own liability to A , the clause will be treated as an exclusion , subject to the UCTA 1977 , whereas if the effect of the provision is to require A to indemnify B against B 's liability to C , the clause falls outside the provisions of the Act . |
| 29 | The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute . |
| 30 | The obvious problem with the designs of these experiments is that it is impossible to know whether the difference observed in the test depends on positive transfer in the distinctiveness group , negative transfer in the equivalence group , or both of these . |