Example sentences of "of [noun pl] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this pattern of usage of solicitors is evidence of a restricted perception of the sorts of matters with which solicitors deal or of a failure of people to approach solicitors knowing that they could help is unclear . |
| 2 | Scientists ' methods are public , available to everyone after publication ; those of artists are trade secrets , part of their mystery , and are typically concealed . |
| 3 | In only 5 per cent of cases was rehabilitation considered by the social worker to be a possibility and in no case at all was there any definite plan towards rehabilitation . |
| 4 | Another pair of compatibles is husband and policeman ; both belong to the category of human males , and Arthur is/is not a husband and Arthur is/is not a policeman are logically independent . |
| 5 | The explosive power of volcanos is proof if ever it was needed , of man 's lack of control over the environment . |
| 6 | Some familiarity with such a chart is part of the skill of being a biochemist , just as some knowledge of the anatomy and classification of animals is part of the skill of being a zoologist . |
| 7 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 8 | His conclusion is that a religion which counts its success by numbers of converts is suspect . |
| 9 | The majority of CO-OPs are food stores , but some sell clothes , furniture and household items . |
| 10 | Another source of disputes was government resources . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that there is some relationship between surplus school buildings and the fabric of schools is nonsense . |
| 12 | Back in the early '60s , that 's how Shelby contrived it , and although the majority of Cobras were road cars , that does n't alter the fact that they 're all racers under the skin . |
| 13 | What topples the majority of candidates is lack of practised techniques . |
| 14 | As at all schools a playground full of youngsters was bedlam . |
| 15 | Come and see a range of crafts being hand produced in our craft workshops . |
| 16 | The common mint of gardens is spearmint ( M.spicala ) , with its pointed hairless leaves . |
| 17 | For a long time , the study of accents was part of the subject of dialectology , which aimed to identify all the ways in which a language differed from place to place . |
| 18 | Added to the morning procession of salesmen were melon sellers and juice boys , cool water vendors ( 50 paise a glass ) and great caravans of ice cream wallahs . |
| 19 | The equilibrium quantity of films is Q. Consumers pay a price P 1 , producers receive a price P 2 , and the tax per film is the distance EF . |
| 20 | In only 5% of classes was teacher guidance inadequate . |
| 21 | A number of grammars are unification based including Functional Unification Grammar ( FUG ) ( Kay , 1985 ) ; Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar ( GPSG ) ( Gazdar et al , 1985 ) ; Lexical Functional Grammar ( LFG ) ( Kaplan & Bresnan , 1982 ) and PATR-II ( Shieber , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | This treasure-trove of collections is proof that , when it comes to home making , imagination and ingenuity are more important than money or design trends |
| 23 | A lot of families are hell . |
| 24 | To a Marxist-Leninist , control of resources is power ; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it . |
| 25 | These studies show that in Bield schemes 12.7% of tenants are dementia sufferers ( 10.4% mild ; 2.3% moderate ) . |
| 26 | A number of things are part of the concern to secure a more " balanced " constitution — the second essential of the new constitution envisaged by the established constitutional authorities . |
| 27 | They were well aware that the natural secular order of things was rule by the monarch . |
| 28 | The government is dismissing doctor 's fears that millions of Britons are drinking water which has been contaminated by pesticides ; the Food Minister , David Maclean , describes the British Medical Association report , detailing the concern as outmoded , vague and inaccurate . |
| 29 | the content of communications is information and advice rather than instructions — participation rather than control . |
| 30 | Learning the meaning of symbols is part of the anthropologist 's practical semantics : discovering the meaning of words , noticing when their use is appropriate and when it is not . |