Example sentences of "be [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 3 | This shows , for instance , that the element most closely related to extremely is fast : these two are co-constituents of the adjective phrase construction . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that associatives are adjectives of which the properties are specifically not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase in which they figure . |
| 5 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 6 | Pheasants are birds of Asian origin , including the covert pheasants seen in the English countryside and bred for shooting . |
| 7 | ( The name , ‘ wheat ear ’ , is derived from its earlier name , ‘ white-arse ’ ! – Wheat ears are birds of hilly country , of short turf and boulders , of bracken , and of rabbit holes in which they can nest . |
| 8 | Among those which have reproduced in large numbers are birds of prey , including ospreys , marsh harriers and red kites — the latter having their most successful year for a century , with 79 breeding pairs in Wales raising 93 chicks . |
| 9 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 10 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 11 | Senior men , such as Charlie Nicholas , Paul McStay and Peter Grant and younger players like Gerry Creaney and Derek Whyte are products of Celtic Boys Club football ; their allegiance to Celtic goes far beyond a pay packet . |
| 12 | Many of the latest appointees to influential positions are products of Dorothy Heathcote 's and my own teaching . |
| 13 | Union Maids , The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter and , in this country , Women of the Rhondda are products of early feminist oral history , often interspersed with historical documentary footage . |
| 14 | Recreation , tourism and sport are products of the industrial era , and especially the result of increasing leisure time since the Second World War . |
| 15 | They are products of , on one hand , women 's own activities and values , or on the other , their oppression by men . |
| 16 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 17 | Both the bourgeois ideology and the proletarian false consciousness are products of particular social relations present in capitalism . |
| 18 | They argued that categories such as crime and mental illness ( and they could have added child abuse ) do not occur naturally , but are products of social definition . |
| 19 | Glial growth factors , proteins that are mitogenic for Schwann cells , and several ligands for the p185 erbB2 receptor , are products of the same gene . |
| 20 | Comparison of our GGF clones with these sequences reveals that the glial growth factors and those ligands , namely the neu differentiation factor ( NDF ) and the heregulins , are products of the same gene . |
| 21 | Although the three purified GGFs are products of one gene , specific assignment of a single mRNA to each protein is made difficult by the large number of alternatively spliced mRNA variants . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Collagenases are products of fibroblasts and are up regulated in tumour stromal cells . |
| 25 | These accounts imply that incidents of violence against women are few and far between ; that they are products of a few sick individuals . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Maybe that 's why so many children are products of broken , broken |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |