Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits . |
| 2 | ‘ Young men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than women and the risks of being raped by a stranger are very small indeed ( approximately one in 25,000 ) but most women would put the risk at a lot higher . |
| 3 | More usually street gangs such as the Nachos , Montañeros and Calvos are hired by drug barons for a ‘ kill ’ for between £1,000 and £5,000 , depending on the importance of the victim and the risks of being caught . |
| 4 | Just as the injunctions may serve to exaggerate the feeling of powerlessness , in the face of a limited ( even if substantial ) loss of power , so they lead people to exaggerate the imagined risks of being honest . |
| 5 | While the lure of profits are as appealing as ever , the perceived , if not actual , risks of being caught have increased . |
| 6 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 7 | The Doctor ordered Howard to stop the car at the top of the road leading down into the city , weighing up the risks of being attacked by one side or the other . |
| 8 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 9 | Perception of reality is a matter of having ‘ ideas of sense ’ , which have the characteristics of being involuntary and not subject to our control , of being strong and lively , and of having a coherence and order . |
| 10 | Similarly the old Roman cities in Languedoc , Burgundy , and the Loire valley regained a truly urban character , after centuries of being pared down to walls , cathedral church , and market place ; townsmen outnumbered clerics , new streets were built for their houses , roads inside the walls began to be levelled to prevent rubbish from blocking the entrances to new stone churches or entrance gates , trades diversified , immigrants poured in . |
| 11 | Of course , we had many political differences but the twin oppressions of being Irish lesbians and immigrants brought us together and gave us a strong framework upon which to build our own movement and within which to begin articulating our anger at English feminism . |
| 12 | Victims have been openly accused by their husbands of being ‘ Chetnik whores ’ . |
| 13 | Erm and people will take on board different methods of being probed , some will respond to audio probes , some will re respond to some visual stimulation er conceptualize er ideas you know the ones we looked at last week like the old PEGGY symbols and erm the cheque book , PHI and life assurance , the ten percent rule and there is one another which we can look at , another mnemonic called er erm some of you may have come across it before , others may not and is hey so Mr Prospect if you had n't made an adequate retirement plan , what financial problems do you think you or family could have ? |
| 14 | But is accuses manufacturers of being misleading . |
| 15 | Er Brothers of were manufacturers of sheep dips and various disinfectants . |
| 16 | MPs often accuse journalists of being overly simplistic , of personalising politics instead of considering policies . |
| 17 | I 've had mine done twice , mine done twice , mm , the police were up the other day lying in ambush , and I 'd spotted them and phoned the local police station and said there 's men lurking in the bushes of are they policemen ? , she said yes madam , they 're policemen . |
| 18 | This is a year when you could realise the attractions of being self-employed . |
| 19 | For , hard on the heels of being asked to play in Jack Nicklaus 's Memorial Tournament in June , he has also been invited to play in the Benson & Hedges International at St Mellion , prior to which he will play a practice round with Jose Maria Olazabal , himself a former British Amateur champion . |
| 20 | The more couples are able to tolerate differences in their partnership — between men and women , and between babies and parents — the less will the satisfactions of being a parent and being a married partner be eroded by children . |
| 21 | Considering the deeper aspects of being alive , one notices , too , that the higher the consciousness , then the greater is the capacity for both love and the awareness of other creatures as living entities . |
| 22 | And having done it , and having experienced aspects of being a solo artist , I know that in many ways it 's a lot easier being a solo artist ! |
| 23 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person . |
| 24 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person |
| 25 | Thank you once again for giving me a really good laugh at just one of the many aspects of being a happy single parent . |
| 26 | Having explored some aspects of being a principal carer , and the cared for elderly person in a close relationship in a family , we need to look in more detail at the character of informal care networks , where there may be more people involved in a less intense way . |
| 27 | The first two of these are questions about the ‘ best ’ and ‘ worst ’ aspects of being a housewife . |
| 28 | That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her . |
| 29 | So I try an encourage them that their images and what they chose to make pictures of are as important as my ones . |
| 30 | In its own , gentle way , poignancy is as profound an intimation of the contradictions of being , as any of the mindfuck experiences or headlong plunges into the horror-of-it-all that the anti-Morrissey brutalists advocate . |