Example sentences of "be [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes they 're just aesthetically pleasing things ; some of the old Gretsch amplifiers and that kind of thing are kind of cool to look at . |
| 4 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 5 | what somebody said that the , sometimes the pupil 's comments are kind of as Andrew pointed out earlier that er |
| 6 | There are other reasons as well , things like peace and tranquillity er time to reflect er and yeah there are other motivations as well which you , if you like , are kind of negative . |
| 7 | So in effect there are kind of like negative motivating factors which is basically all to do about escape where you do n't care where you go as long as you get away from here . |
| 8 | A taboo is something beyond reason and as we saw , what Freud does in the book is compare it with neurotic prohibitions which are kind of personal taboos , and in fact the sub-title of the book is some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics . |
| 9 | Other groups however , possibly smaller ones or more erm or , or more er or ones that are kind of more fired up with er , wi wi with with feelings of group membership , you find the opposite , you find stronger identifications , more emphasis on leaders and consequently followers . |
| 10 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
| 11 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 12 | There is absolutely no question that there are kind of money advice people in the City sitting around with nothing to do , quite the contrary , so I mean it 's not a duplication , erm and of course we make sure that we that all the people involved in money advice within the City , whether funded directly or indirectly by the City Council , work with each other and co-operate with each other and form a network . |
| 13 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 14 | The first 11 cantos are preparation of the palette . |
| 15 | I am mistress of this house and I have to see that all is well . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 17 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 18 | The main aims are funding of a two story terminus building at Leicester as well as developing the double track project partly funded by enthusiast David Clark . |
| 19 | ‘ I am Prince of Wales , after all . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Most of the downland woods are west of the Arun gap and , apart from plantations , beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) is the dominant tree , although it rarely regenerates , and where no replanting takes place ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ) quickly asserts itself . |
| 22 | I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district . |
| 23 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 24 | It may , for example , have been part of a private collection which itself was catalogued , especially if the collector in question was rich . |
| 25 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 26 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 27 | Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice . |
| 28 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 29 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 30 | It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’ |