Example sentences of "[be] [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There are crowds of people on the roofs . " |
| 2 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 3 | But there are signs of haste in the recording or editing process — at 23'04 ’ in the first movement ( eight bars after fig. 69 ) the first piccolo appears to play G and A flat together , as though two takes have been momentarily overlaid ; then there is a stray timpani stroke at 9′52″ in the third movement , what sounds like a stray clonk on the xylophone at 3′54″ in the finale , and , most unfortunate of all , a discrepancy of tuning between the timpani and the rest of the orchestra later in this movement ( at 4′25″ , in the return of the introduction ) . |
| 4 | While Europe is still suffering the effects of recession , it believes there are signs of upturn in the US economy . |
| 5 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 6 | If there are signs of infection on the smear , you may be asked to see your own doctor for treatment before having the smear repeated . |
| 7 | and you were in your room , erm it was , like all day at work today there 's been loads of activity outside the magistrate 's court with like , with erm various |
| 8 | Hence unfair dismissal and redundancy are considered by the tribunal , as are cases of discrimination on the grounds of race , sex or trade union activities . |
| 9 | On the walls are copies of portraits of the Habsburgs from Rudolf II to Maria Theresa . |
| 10 | Above are illustrations of sections of the central ridge of the Cuillin . |
| 11 | They carry quasi-symbolic meaning : bears , cats and forest fires are objects of fear to the people and so convey their recognition of the power and danger of the new people . |
| 12 | Key to the work on markets are considerations of change in the world religions and in painting . |
| 13 | I found this broken object , which is possibly a dog , in a field with Celtic and Roman coins , I have been told that it may be the end of a knife as there are fragments of iron on the base of the dog . |
| 14 | In England there had been talk of reunion since the 1830s and some reunions had taken place . |
| 15 | Salvo Lima had been Mayor of Palermo in the building boom of the Fifties and Sixties , when the Mafia set the rules of many public contracts . |
| 16 | These are the Department of Education and Training ( DET ) , responsible for providing education to African children living in ‘ white designated areas ’ ; the departments responsible for education in the so-called ‘ self-governing states ’ or bantustans/homelands ( Kwazulu , Lebowa , Gazankulu , Kangwane , Kwandebele and Qwaqwa ) ; and finally there are Ministries of Education in the so-called ‘ independent states ’ of Transkei , Bophuthatswana , Ciskei and Venda , whose ‘ independence ’ is recognized only by the South African government . |
| 17 | These are roles of advocacy on the part of individual or collective needs , monitoring of standards in a general or specific way and of exercising occasional social control . |
| 18 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , sir , the forensic people say there are traces of blood of the same group as Gray 's , rhesus negative ’ — he consulted his notes — ‘ A , on the inside of the scabbard and on the hilt . |
| 20 | These differences have multiple causes since trade unions are responses of workers to the varying economic and political features of the environments in which they operate . |
| 21 | All around the fringe of the urban area there are pockets of land in the ownership of private builders just waiting for the signal to turn from red to amber . |
| 22 | There have always been movements of people across the world who have changed the way of life in the lands they have occupied . |
| 23 | Although in this connection too the higher courts are likely to say that the terms used are matters of fact for the magistrates , it will be open to those courts to say that in certain circumstances , the reactions of the victim were not likely to be those of harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 24 | On the one hand , the most obviously appropriate analyses of the incidences are comparisons of Seascale with the rest of Copeland plus Allerdale and of each of these areas with the rest of Cumbria , but such comparisons are based on comparatively small numbers . |
| 25 | Course there are versions of Windows for the Two Eight Six . |
| 26 | Are marvels of technology in the Middle East |
| 27 | There are applications of genetics from the molecular to the quantitative level in medicine and agriculture . |
| 28 | On an international front , there are rumblings of discontent from the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 29 | Yet there are rumblings of discontent among the Kenyan medical establishment . |
| 30 | If there are seeds of truth in the theories outlined in this sub-section , actual redistribution taking place in the public sector will reflect altruistic , malicious , vote-maximizing , insurance- and protection-seeking behaviour . |