Example sentences of "of [det] [noun] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the snakes on the game board , making sure that the head and tail of each snake are on squares of the same colour . |
| 2 | An extreme conservative position would be to believe that , through the fact that God chose to become incarnate within a particular society , indeed through the fact that God chose a particular tradition and people , all aspects of that society are to be conceived to accord with the will of God . |
| 3 | ‘ Pick up a piece of chicken and all the flavours of that dish are on that piece of chicken . |
| 4 | To a high-ranking official in a planning agency , the mechanisms of informal help in house-building between rural villagers are just as much an external process as the workings of that agency are to the villagers . |
| 5 | The clients of that place are among the most powerful men and women in the Southern Capital . |
| 6 | For many , the worst memories of that era are of food shortages because of the disruption to the agricultural system . |
| 7 | The birch existed , particularly in the older public and grammar schools , nor was it absent from some of the newer schools , if the denunciations of some publicists are to be believed . |
| 8 | Only a small proportion of this total are in fact suspect , say the surveyors who accuse the societies of over-reaction in the wake of the discrediting of the standard test used to monitor impurities . |
| 9 | The facts of this case are of such gravity that a sentence of general deterrent is necessary , ’ said the judge . |
| 10 | The abstraction ‘ working class ’ is opposed to ‘ backward ’ sections of the real class and the needs of this abstraction are to be imposed upon reality . |
| 11 | Though the members of this genus are in many respects typical ascaridoids , their biology is sufficiently varied for it to be necessary to consider each species separately . |
| 12 | 1.3 If the goods and/or the work the subject of this order are to be used in carrying out or otherwise in connection with another contract specified overleaf this order shall be subject to the contract conditions of such specified contract in so far as the same are applicable and do not conflict with these purchase conditions . |
| 13 | ‘ We think that the products coming out of this factory are of such a standard and quality that there is a very good potential to sell them into the market , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The strongest youth cultures of the century were in the 1950s and 1960s , and now that the members of this generation are over the border into middle age , they are showing an egotistical , but maybe quite a healthy reluctance to let go of the limelight . |
| 15 | Examples of the application of this principle are to be found in Kempson v. Ashbee ( 1874 ) L.R. 10 Ch.App. 15 and Bainbrigge v. Browne , 18 Ch.D. 188 . |
| 16 | The four volumes of this work are to be accompanied soon by a further five , the whole series presented as making up the definitive study of of quantum theory in an historical context . |
| 17 | Earlier research has shown that if projects of this kind are to be successful , management needs to make organisational changes , as well as technical ones . |
| 18 | First , retrospective assessments of this kind are of necessity highly coloured by Nizan 's ultimate break with the party in 1939 . |
| 19 | The answer here is a very technical one , but the trustees of an organisation of this kind are of course the , the executive committee . |
| 20 | Masterly examples of this skill are to be found in the UK Government publication Social Trends and , though usually rather ambitious expositions , are certainly worthy of study and imitation . |
| 21 | Elements of this view are to be found in Africa today , as in Cameroon , where censorship and other laws have defeated efforts to form a critical , independent press . |
| 22 | The first two parts of this book are about understanding where things have to be done . |
| 23 | Many individuals of this sort are to be found amongst the nobility of Ulthuan . |
| 24 | Many individuals of this sort are to be found amongst the nobility , the Counts of the Empire and their sons , as well as the lesser nobility . |
| 25 | Examples of this sort are in direct contrast to what has been , in effect , the subconscious attitude of most geologists for the last hundred or more years . |
| 26 | Engineers of this discipline are in the greatest demand , and receive the highest salaries at an early age , Imagine also that the raw material used by these engineers has been rapidly increasing in abundance and dramatically decreasing in cost over a period of 20 years . |
| 27 | Secret agents of this ilk are at work all the time . |
| 28 | The origins of this movement are in the teaching machines first developed systematically about 1960 . |
| 29 | The vast majority of the speakers of this group are in China but there are significant numbers of Chinese speakers throughout South-East Asia and even in the US . |
| 30 | The vast majority of the speakers of this group are in China but there are significant numbers of Chinese speakers throughout South-East Asia and even in the US . |