Example sentences of "of [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eighties surf bubble has well and truly burst , and competition prize money for the sport side of surfing is on the wane . |
| 2 | The sensation of seeing is for us very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 3 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 4 | This means that the thankless task of nagging is of an elevated importance in the unknown band 's armoury of skills : the less notice they take , the more you need to pester them . |
| 5 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 6 | ‘ With adults the process of acting is about the losing of inhibitions . |
| 7 | yeah I think right but I think the way of analyzing is through just saying you , what are your grievances and then ultimately that will result in landlords being driven out . |
| 8 | The most obvious sign of ageing is through our skin tissues . |
| 9 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 10 | She argues that the main task is that of deciding what to do , and that the best way of deciding is through a genuinely democratic epistemology . |
| 11 | A further use of microprogramming is in writing programs to test for and diagnose faults in the computer hardware . |
| 12 | Another display entitled ‘ La Corrida ’ featuring 120 paintings and drawings by Botero on the theme of bullfighting is at the Grand Palais from 20 to 29 November . |
| 13 | Zimbabwe 's environment minister Herbert Murerwa ( who had also unsuccessfully advocated a limited legalisation of trade in rhino horns ) complained afterwards that the integrity of CITES was in question , and that politicians and pressure groups had ignored scientific evidence that southern African elephant populations were " not only healthy but growing " . |
| 14 | The subject of feeding is of considerable importance and needs to be considered from two angles , the quantity fed and the feeding regime ; and the quality of the food . |
| 15 | The average size of holding is between 3 and 6 ha , and below 3000 m irrigation is practised . |
| 16 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 17 | The main problems of overcrowding are in local prisons , which act as holding centres before inmates are moved to training or open prisons . |
| 18 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 19 | As she wheeled her bicycle down the vicarage drive , she had a purely professional sense of having done nothing , but nevertheless of having been of use . |
| 20 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 21 | And for other girls in Carlen 's study , the scars of having been in care are more vivid . |
| 22 | Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage . |
| 23 | I had the advantage of having been in the Civil Service in the war and [ was ] even offered establishment in the Treasury as a permanent thing . |
| 24 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 25 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 26 | This is interpreted as : maximum aperture 2.8 , focal length 32mm and the range of focusing is from a minimum of 0.6 metre to infinity . |
| 27 | Much of the controversy in the literature of weeding is over the most effective method of predicting the future use of a collection . |
| 28 | But erm she was saying there were a group that she sort of went were alongside their group which were the |
| 29 | With the provision of booths and sound systems , most conference interpreting is now of the simultaneous variety but , as is frequently pointed out by interpreters themselves , the most common use of interpreting is in some personal consecutive mode and not in conferences . |
| 30 | One way of ensuring that locals have a reasonable chance of winning is to slightly bias just a few of the questions . |