Example sentences of "be [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However there seems to be little of worth in the other characters to hold up against Thersites 's world view .
2 One , one might be that for people who are on a fairly low income or on benefits , the home-loss compensation which the council was offering did i would in fact seem like quite a lot of money erm and for any tenants who were n't in arrears , then they would receive the full amount .
3 You role will be that of diplomat .
4 I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life .
5 An example of corporatism at work may be that of Britain in the 1960s where the unions , represented by the Trades Union Congress , and big business , represented by the Confederation of British Industry , seemed to have easy access to government .
6 Masai on the government payroll contentedly drew their salaries and accepted whatever titles were bestowed upon them , but either did nothing or interpreted their duty to be that of spokesmen for their compatriots labouring under some inconvenience inflicted on them by the government .
7 According to reports in the media at that time , the resulting likeness was thought to be that of Abu Talb , a PFLP — GC terrorist who had visited Malta twice before the bombing and was subsequently arrested in Sweden while in possession of large quantities of clothing purchased in Malta .
8 If quality is to be controlled in a tight and limited way , the price can be that of narrowness and aridity .
9 The relation between stress and strain in rubbers and other polymers capable of high reversible extensions can not be that of Hooke 's law except at the start of the deformation where the strain approaches an infinitesimal value .
10 Her spectre is reputed to be that of Frances Culpepper , daughter of Lord John Freschville .
11 Furthermore , asked to identify the researcher central to the project , it is odds on that the name they would come up with would be that of Eric Kandel , charismatic Howard Hughes Professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York , author of one of the key neuroscience text-books of the decades and prolific contributor to others , tireless and brilliant proselytizer for Aplysia as god 's organism for the study of memory , and for reductionism as the methodological and philosophical route to its understanding .
12 And death number one looked set to be that of Albert Roger Quigley .
13 The major difference appears to be that of timescale ; perfusion is spread over a much longer time scale than arterial infusion .
14 The critical aspect to Coal Measures source potential along the flanks of the London-Brabant Massif is considered to be that of maturity and generation timing ( see Eames 1975 and Lutz et al. 1975 ) .
15 The second is a recumbent military effigy , thought to be that of Robert de Tattershall himself .
16 A signature purporting to be that of Mrs. Steed appears opposite .
17 The inheritance of those on the losing side will be that of mistrust , and the peculiar scars , fears and obsessions that run through their later political and cultural life and which never disappear entirely , but reappear in constantly changing guises .
18 Unless some of these things are to be found in it , the relationship is unlikely to be that of husband and wife . ’
19 A murder hunt was launched yesterday after a body , believed to be that of Monica Cantwell , aged 24 , from Lingfield , Surrey , was found in New Zealand .
20 They knew of a fourth case , later confirmed to be that of Keith Parchment , and believed the fifth referred to the Brown case , which technically involved two separate trials .
21 In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages .
22 An additional financial burden for a woman in situations such as these may be that of arrears which have accrued , of which she may have been previously unaware ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 128 ) .
23 The hardest task of all may be that of people choosing to live alone who are either disabled or who have been members of an institution .
24 Mr Mugabe asked the conference : ‘ Is our development path to be that of socialism or capitalism ?
25 His music often appears to be that of gesture rather than thought , he says , but only superficially .
26 The inspiring and impressive castle gatehouse , with a trio of towers , and a superb archway , is surmounted by a figure believed to be that of Edward I. Visit the exhibition and nearby Denbigh Friary , Leicester 's Church and St Hilary 's Chapel .
27 The most important issue was considered by electors to be that of unemployment , an issue on which more preferred the Labour position to that of the Conservatives .
28 The Constitution 's main concern appeared to be that of conservation .
29 On other occasions we detect language which can only be that of James , the third-person narrator .
30 In the Supreme Court 's ruling , the normally conservative Sandra Day O'Connor , the only female justice , voted with the liberal minority ; the decisive vote proved to be that of David Souter , Bush 's only appointee to the Court , whom abortion rights advocates had long suspected of harbouring anti-abortionist views .
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