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

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1 But he accords them the right to boast , for they have returned with money and presents which are proof of their achievement .
2 Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention .
3 Can I ask a question please , who will determine what is the most important work which is part of our promise , list
4 Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life .
5 I think we call er the volunteers , or those who run the shops anyway , Sally 's Army and that is in my way a tribute to Sally Barker who 's chairman of our branches advisory committee and does so much to make sure that the money does get raised in the field .
6 The Secretary of State for Education and Science has referred to LEAs ' and schools ' ‘ important responsibility to work towards the promotion of equality of opportunity for the different ethnic groups who are part of our national life ’ .
7 Buildings which were evidence of its 900 years history have disappeared and their places taken by unremarkable retail stores and car parks so that several references to streets and buildings in the book are difficult to follow .
8 The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century .
9 Oh , it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they 're doing of it .
10 Yes at the moment he 's sort of he he 's the lone ranger is n't he Collimore .
11 Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure .
12 How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ?
13 controls those authorised persons who are members of it by requiring them to comply with the rules of the organisation .
14 controls those authorised persons who are members of it .
15 When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked .
16 Incidentally , it was he who thought that if the tsarist library actually still existed , then it would be situated beneath the Moscow Kremlin ( to this day there are legends of its sealed-off hiding-places and passages ) .
17 These he carried home , partly because the little room lacked storage space , partly to appease the secretive , magpie instinct which was part of his nature : he loved to keep , hide , obfuscate , cover his tracks ; he had fantasies in the watches of the night of other scholars stealing a march on him and publishing the definitive study of Walter Machin first ( though how that would be possible , in view of his privileged position , he would have been hard put to it to say ) .
18 The result is a slightly elusive quality which is part of its singular attraction .
19 Was it a Government commitment which was part of their manifesto ?
20 Not just the right to negotiate , but to but the organization should actually be organized to benefit the people who are part of it .
21 Who do you spend your time with her , are your commissioning editors people who are part of your daily life ?
22 The same goes for your relations with language helpers and other local people who are part of your team .
23 If the restraint is confined to acting on behalf of people who were clients of your firm during the subsistence of the employment , it may be valid .
24 I include in that the staff of Westminster Strategy who are part of our team .
25 Yeah we have a number of doctors who are part of our distribution er set up , we have people like Brian who 's busily growing his hair back , there are medical exclusions for people who ca n't invert so
26 They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this .
27 Where you have a persistent problem with perennial weeds , label them and tell your friends they are part of your bid to conserve our natural flora .
28 But in a sense it is part of their responsibility .
29 It 's part it 's part of your pack Desmond , I gave you papers and you should have in it erm
30 The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them
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