Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fossils appear to be relatives of Hallucigenia , with flat scaly plates reminiscent of its spines ( though not leg-like ) and similar tentacles . |
| 2 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 3 | Two such ‘ In nomines ’ in Mulliner 's book by the Scottish religious refugee Robert Johnson ( C. 1490–c. 1565 ) and Robert White ( c. 1530–1574 ) — appear to be transcriptions of viol compositions . |
| 4 | An additional 3 per cent of meteorites are irons and 1 per cent are stony-irons , Some achondrites are basaltic in texture and composition and appear to be samples of lava flows from the surfaces of their parent bodies . |
| 5 | However , the main underpinning causes of this erosion appear to be methods of management and land tenure rather than erosivity and erodibility ( section 6.2.2 ) , especially as sugar-cane provides a protective cover for most of the year . |
| 6 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 7 | We will be prepared to sell stations — which we want to be centres of activity — either to franchisees or independent companies . |
| 8 | Before the Secretary of State sets sail to be Governor of Hong Kong , will he exercise his subtle and calming qualities on behalf of the 5,500 British expatriates , many of whom are Scots engineers working in the oil industry in Libya ? |
| 9 | A lot of them seem to be leaders of countries or religions or armies . |
| 10 | These seem to be whirls of motion of a particular kind called eddies , and at the cloud tops they are very numerous . |
| 11 | Time and again they seem to be reactions of weakness and fear , attempts to erect barricades to keep at bay the forces of the modern world . |
| 12 | But there seem to be differences of opinion about how they are perceived , with some getting more political — kinder and more gentle , if you will — while others are as militant as ever . ’ |
| 13 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 14 | ( i ) With some obvious exceptions , such as questions and commands , all linguistic utterances purport to be statements of fact . |
| 15 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 16 | Just as there are families of correctly spelled words , so there tend to be families of error . |
| 17 | Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game . |
| 18 | White attackers often claim to be members of organizations like this and to be acting on their behalf and , certainly , the National Front has contributed to an atmosphere in which some white people think it acceptable to assault blacks . |
| 19 | Since it is unlikely that all preferred paths would have an exact alignment there have to be changes of alignment . |
| 20 | As we pray for peace , we have to be makers of peace , channels of peace . |