Example sentences of "be that of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two themes that seemed to flow through the work are that of ‘ the body ’ , images of male and female sexuality and ‘ the reappropriation of images ’ . |
| 2 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 3 | Among the sites listed are that of the 1956 crash of a nuclear-armed bomber aircraft at Albuquerque , New Mexico , and the Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville , Maryland , where scientists used radioactive matter to test the effects of fall-out on crops in the 50s and 60s . |
| 4 | The characters in the novel are that of an extensive range from the proud , head high Mr. Darcy to the clever Mrs. Phillips who is affectionate of talking ; from the sweet Jane Bennet to the most jealous Miss . |
| 5 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 6 | The actual sphere of competence the church had sought to monopolize had been that of sexual morals , temperance , the semi-private sphere of the family , and education . |
| 7 | Of all the proposed mega-mergers this year , the only success has been that of Ernst & Young , which merged all its significant practices expect for Canada . |
| 8 | Typical of the complaints had been that of David Fletcher , a Wirral councillor , who said his constituents ‘ objected most strongly to subsidising the extravagancies of hard-left councils like Liverpool ’ . |
| 9 | His mainstream career prior to 1917 had been that of a journalist . |
| 10 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 11 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |
| 12 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 13 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 14 | One of the most popular trends has been that of Drama Games . |
| 15 | In the last decade a new basis for argument has been that of consumerism and accountability . |
| 16 | The first actual direct steam-driven flour mill is thought to have been that of Young and Co , of Bristol in 1780 , in Lewis Mead , near the city centre and powered by a Wasborough/Pickerd engine . |
| 17 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 18 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 19 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 20 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 21 | An important explanatory concept has been that of ‘ divergent thinking ’ ; or what de Bono in a different context has called ‘ lateral ’ thinking . |
| 22 | ‘ Corporal ’ — her voice was clear and could have been that of a schoolteacher reprimanding — ‘ I have n't much opinion of my legs , but I can assure you you are not the type of man I would allow within parade ground distance of them , let alone pull them . ’ |
| 23 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 24 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 25 | An aim of educational policy in this and many other countries has been that of enhancing equality of opportunity . |
| 26 | The most influential presentation of the ‘ strong ’ version of the ‘ autonomous ’ model has probably been that of the social anthropologist . |
| 27 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 28 | The royal grant which had offered Richard the best chance of a viable power base had been that of the forfeited de Vere estates , made in August 1462 , but these had been restored to the earl of Oxford at the beginning of 1464 . |
| 29 | This desolate landscape has been that of much of the earth for the greater part of its history . |
| 30 | It is tempting to think that one of these robbed tombs may have been that of Imhotep , buried near to the king he had served . |