Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are few examinations of the special management problems thrown up by library systems , and the area could provide a fruitful one for future work . |
| 32 | There are few predators of bristleworms which can be safely introduced into a reef tank though doubtless a large crab or Triggerfish would devour them happily , but would also probably eat all your expensive corals as an appetiser . |
| 33 | Although this is highly plausible there are few studies of the skills possessed by older unemployed workers . |
| 34 | After all , there are few areas of human experience that have not been written about , and you can experience your chosen one through other writers ' words just as well , perhaps even in some ways actually better , than through your own eyes . |
| 35 | The most positive view comes from the United States : ‘ The fact that much is being done , and that there are few areas of stagnation , makes one believe that better and more fruitful days are ahead ’ . |
| 36 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
| 37 | At the time of writing , no indigenous British originated discs have been announced and , despite substantial potential interest on the part of British information publishers , there are few signs of a clear , decisive lead being given by Sony to encourage initial investments in disc development . |
| 38 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 39 | In fact , there are few corners of the world where Madeirans are not to be found : from Alaska to Australia , from California to Macau . |
| 40 | There are few descriptions of the histological features of gold induced colitis , but a preservation of glandular architecture and diffuse inflammatory cell infiltrate sometimes with a prominent eosinophil component are said to be characteristic . |
| 41 | Precisely when this occurred can seldom be determined on any estates , because there are few series of complete manorial records , but it is safe to say that by the early fifteenth century the change had taken place widely on both lay and ecclesiastical lands , the latter being better documented over different parts of the country . |
| 42 | Most evaluations of health technologies are performed ex ante and there are few examples of situations where researchers have investigated whether the preferred option as indicated by their study has performed well in practice . |
| 43 | There are few examples of brackish fish for the hobbyist here . |
| 44 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 45 | There are few examples of the last two phases , primarily because we can not specify unambiguously the user problem to be solved — beyond very simple situations . |
| 46 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 47 | Nor must it be assumed that the whole of the Sahara shared in this climatic amelioration , for , as Gautier says , there are few traces of wadi patterns in the Libyan desert , which , forming the core of the Sahara , was probably less affected . |
| 48 | There are few violations of the ceasefire . |
| 49 | Curiously , most of the rules seem to have been conceived for print media : there are few pieces of TV and radio ‘ folklore ’ of this kind . |
| 50 | Although there are few indications of local industries at Rochester itself , the town may well have acted as the service centre for the potteries in the Cliffe area to the north and those situated downstream on both sides of the Medway estuary . |
| 51 | There are few economies of scale as such of the work is duplicated . |
| 52 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 53 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 54 | There are few ways of increasing the speed at which your body metabolizes food , but this is a very valuable one . |
| 55 | For women trying to survive in the game of life there are few ways of improving the balance of power within the family ( or within the workplace ) . |
| 56 | In MIPS ' mind , there are few points of further comparison between the R4400 and the anaemic Tsunami . |
| 57 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 58 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 59 | Although most country parks are monitored by crude counts of visitors , there have been few studies of whether they have achieved the aims set out above . |
| 60 | There have been few studies of adults with cystic fibrosis with respect to employment , education , housing , insurance , and other features of lifestyle , and most such studies have been based on patients attending large clinics , who may be unrepresentative of the total population with the disease . |