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

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31 As the recombinant GGFs described here and several putative p185 erbB2 ligands are products of the same gene , we reasoned that bovine pituitary GGFs and rhGGF-II might activate a p185 receptor tyrosine kinase ( perhaps erbB2 ) on Schwann cells .
32 The social reality is that the uses of ‘ history ’ , if not always as crude and blatant as this , always involve selection , speculation and hypothesised connections , and that the scholars operating this process are products of a specific society , speak its language and are imbued with its ideology , so their work must always bear a complex if not tangential relationship to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ .
33 Collagenases are products of fibroblasts and are up regulated in tumour stromal cells .
34 These accounts imply that incidents of violence against women are few and far between ; that they are products of a few sick individuals .
35 That is to say , characteristics of places , which give rise to the equilibrating tendencies of neo-classical theory or the reinforcing tendencies of cumulative causation , or which propel capital 's restless search for profit described by Marxism , are characteristics produced by society itself ; indeed they are products of the very industrial system which subsequently reacts to them .
36 Maybe that 's why so many children are products of broken , broken
37 All these figures show that , in broad terms , four out of five full-time professional judges are products of public schools , and of Oxford or Cambridge .
38 Saddam 's means of war are products of modern science and technology , as are those even more lethal systems being unleashed against him by the Western allies .
39 These young ‘ stars of the future ’ are products of the Coca-Cola ‘ Centres of Excellence ’ which are administered annually by the IFA from September through to May The 1993 winners of the hail from Banbridge , Londonderry , Portadown , Newry and Belfast .
40 Shares , goes the patter , are products like any other and so deserve the same marketing effort .
41 Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements .
42 The fireworks are products within the rule .
43 Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death .
44 However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers .
45 Consciousness is structured and there are reasons for supposing that this structure differs with the socio-economic situation of the experiencing subject .
46 These reflections on the mediating role of authoritative directives and of rules generally explain why they are reasons for actions .
47 They are reasons for holding that it is not binding .
48 This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief .
49 In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties .
50 There are reasons for believing that the official UK unemployment figures , measured as the number of people claiming benefits , may understate the actual number of people unemployed .
51 Here too there are reasons for reversing the priority .
52 There are reasons for believing that if the above liberal reforms were implemented , they might not significantly reduce the volume of corporate crime .
53 There are reasons for this , reasons rooted in social circumstances rather than natural abilities and these can be highlighted by examining the period between Johnson and Ali .
54 Given these considerations I think Warnock is wrong to claim that there are reasons for saying that the baby saw these things .
55 If , however , the Chief Inspector decides there are reasons for conducting an investigation in greater depth , he will order an inspector 's investigation to take place .
56 But there are reasons for thinking his pleas to the Bosnian Serbs to accept the peace plan were sincere .
57 For earlier times , though , there are reasons for doubting certain simulations .
58 OSF/1 on MIPS customers are mostly policy-led companies who want the operating system to come from an independent source , although there are reasons for changing , according to Stone , including loadable drivers for accommodating new graphics options and shared libraries that reduce the size of the applications .
59 There are reasons for Cardus ' confidence .
60 This is one of the reasons why fertility is expected to rise a little in official projections , to 2.0 ( OPCS 1989a ) , although there are reasons for believing that these high expectations will not be matched by performance ( Shaw 1989 ) .
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