Example sentences of "and [det] be [adj] of " in BNC.

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1 The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East immediately tried to suppress that , and that is indicative of the battle that is going on in the Labour party — It was said by the Leader of the Opposition himself .
2 Er erm and that is typical of anthropologists .
3 Miss chalk and that is terrible of you implying that Miss is only doing it to get her voice on the recorder .
4 On average the cost here would be , in this particular marquee , it 's a hundred and ten pounds a head for a party for the three days , and that 's exclusive of drink .
5 All the women were , and that 's true of of the hosiery industry , of course you 've got a a there 's a big distinction between the hosiery industry as such and the hosiery finishing industry which was then the , they 're amalgamated now , but there were two entirely distinct unions , in tho Er as a matter of fact they n n they never met together .
6 Great events often have small beginnings and that 's true of the Artweek exhibition at Sutton Courtney Abbey .
7 And that 's true of most of the forms you 're going to get , that there 's certainly more than way of using them .
8 Some themes recur in several papers and this is indicative of their urgency .
9 Fortunately SCOTVEC had already developed a sophisticated database system to cope with the scale and complexity of the National Certificate and this is capable of extension to allow all qualifications achieved by an individual to be held against one key number .
10 The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters .
11 He went on to say that the use of non-book resources was one aspect in which hoped-for developments had not taken place , and this is typical of the awareness that , despite general satisfaction with the project , there were limits to its success .
12 One of the points on the sense-spectrum presented above — and this is typical of the metaphorical variety — has a special status , which manifests itself in two principal ways .
13 However , at higher concentrations collagen also causes release of ADP from platelet granules and this is independent of the prostaglandin pathway .
14 Luminal bile salts inhibit terminal ileal motility and this is independent of PYY release .
15 And this is true of all training in the arts because nobody — no tutor , no establishment , however excellent , can finally lay down rules .
16 Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans .
17 And this is true of the theatre , art and music .
18 Another agreed : ‘ I found that when the canvassers come to the door , and this is true of all parties I think , on the whole they feel embarrassed if a disabled person goes to the door and they always ask for my husband . ’
19 The first action using any new technique is usually one of the most interesting , for the simple principles can be seen without any complications of secondary purposes or complicated gear , and this is true of the first beach reconnaissance at Rhodes .
20 And this is true of all actions : every action is caused by some combination of belief and desire .
21 Outwardly the terminus at Devil 's Bridge appears little changed from BR days and this is true of the intermediate stations , but track appears to have improved considerably .
22 Instead and this is true of so much performance of pre-Baroque music we start with a ready-made ensemble or choir and ask , ‘ What will we sing or record next ? ’
23 Third - and this is true of any chamber music it takes only one indifferent member of an ensemble to weaken the effect of a whole performance .
24 And in a way , what they then have to be prepared for is people who are living into adult life because health for children is better — and this is true of many parts of the world , not only Latin America , but also Africa — and you 're going to have to find more jobs .
25 On the other hand , as we have changed to electricity , because of the inefficiency of the electricity generating process this has reflected an increase in the primary fuel consumption by the nation for domestic purposes , and this is true of most western countries that the consumption in the home has not increased , but changing to electricity increasingly has led to burning more oil and coal nationally to produce this constant home demand .
26 An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm .
27 But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different .
28 ‘ These are the same types of rays as nuclear Gamma and X-rays and both are capable of seriously damaging the skin 's DNA . ’
29 Both note the signs of alteration and transition — old houses for sale or to let , new ones being built — and both are aware of the encroaching tide of middle-class building .
30 The struggle now became more equal , for the churned , blood-stained mud affected both sides ; and both were short of food and ammunition , since their supply lines had been largely demolished by rival artillery fire .
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