Example sentences of "[be] [noun] of [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 4 | Collagenases are products of fibroblasts and are up regulated in tumour stromal cells . |
| 5 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 6 | Many of the latest appointees to influential positions are products of Dorothy Heathcote 's and my own teaching . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After all , rhyme and metre are forms of equivalence which distinguish a very great deal of poetry , yet nowadays few would maintain that the presence of either or both is a necessary and sufficient condition for defining a text as poetic . |
| 11 | Remember also that cutting blooms for the house and dead-heading are forms of pruning , and the general principles should be observed , particularly with regard to leaving spurs . |
| 12 | Whereas religions have required worship , ceremony , and sacrifice , these are forms of activity alien to Western science . |
| 13 | There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art : for example , classical ballet . |
| 14 | Thus the structure and the information are forms of expression for copyright purposes . |
| 15 | Another complaint is that it is not clear that all the matters discussed in part III , perception , memory , induction and a priori knowledge , are forms of knowledge . |
| 16 | This implies the recognition and the self-centredness of addictive disease and the denial of its existence and of its consequences by the sufferer are forms of insanity . |
| 17 | What they are looking for , as they grope towards freer politics , are forms of government that would resurrect some of the best features of the Habsburg empire : economic stability , religious and racial tolerance , the rule of law . |
| 18 | There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky . |
| 19 | Rather , they are forms of politics and working class organisations which seem best to represent the interests of individuals and close kin . |
| 20 | Some historians have been arguing recently that payments of census and hostilicium specified in some polyptychs are forms of tax collection and demonstrate the continuity of taxation , and of the administrative structures to exact it , from the late Roman period to the Carolingians . |
| 21 | Rugby supporters , who are as much licence-payers as are aficionados of ballroom dancing , have , I think , been short-changed . |
| 22 | " There are crowds of people on the roofs . " |
| 23 | Often there are crowds of people doing parts of it and landowners and farmers are complaining . ’ |
| 24 | Jimmy Watson , defending , said : ‘ It is common ground there was a collision between the defendant and the principal prosecution witness within the Town Hall but thereafter there are divergences of fact . |
| 25 | Here are houses of distinction and cottages of charm favoured by lovely trees and gardens , an oasis of greenery in marked contrast to the savage background of rugged heights from which the Gruinard River rushes through a gorge . |
| 26 | None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience . |
| 27 | They are icons of money and sex . |
| 28 | Other issues on which morals can be drawn are whether dreams are forewarnings of events to come , and the image of woman as man 's confusion : the latter point , though , the Nun 's Priest himself refuses to present seriously : The burlesque treatment of matters of moral seriousness in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reaches its climax in the middle of the tale , with a reference to one of the crucial dilemmas or mysteries for Christian philosophers : that of reconciling human free will with the necessary truth of God 's Providence . |
| 29 | They also agreed that classes are aggregates of people who are distinguishable by one or by a combination of the following : wealth , occupation , manners , standard of living , power , material possessions . |
| 30 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |