Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the criticisms levelled against the world 's religions are criticisms of failure . |
| 2 | Promissory notes are bills of exchange to which special rules are applicable . |
| 3 | Lions are enemies of zebras . |
| 4 | Ideologies are constructions of reality that serve to support claims to power or authority ( Holzner 1972 : 144 ) . |
| 5 | When you perform this algorithm , the states are pairs of numbers ( x , x ) where x |
| 6 | TRADE-UNION leaders in Germany are creatures of contradiction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But if disciplines are bodies of people as well as bodies of knowledge , are not academic courses also ‘ professional ’ in the sense of preparing people for entry to the academic professions ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One takes the point , whilst insisting that scrupulosity and rigour are matters of means not ends . |
| 11 | The IT and CTT policies are policies of indemnity and are settled up to the limits of each policy section less applicable excesses . |
| 12 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 13 | Both cases are examples of abuse of a dominant position in a ‘ bottleneck market ’ in which there is room for only one major supplier . |
| 14 | Public authorities are creatures of statute and can do no more than the statute permits them to do . |
| 15 | Some of you I know are working but some now Roger are people of leisure and will therefore I hope er be able to find more space in their diaries to quaff the glass of er cheap wine and er raise it |
| 16 | Lurking behind their response are images of RE reflecting past experience : " dull " , " irrelevant " , " soft option " , " load of nonsense " , " dangerous — trying to get at people " , " morals and all that " , " a training in prejudice " , " an anachronism in the modern world " , " the odd one out in schools " , " to do with the God squad " . |
| 17 | You and some other Members of Parliament are residents of Westminster . |
| 18 | Beginnings , endings and titles are sections of texts which usually repay particular study . |
| 19 | All over the northern Highlands are shreds of birch and hazel woodland which are perceptibly decaying under grazing pressure from under-culled red deer and unenclosed sheep . |
| 20 | Meanings are functions of words ; they are not some ghostly essences , capable of subsisting independently of their phenomenal embodiment . |
| 21 | Meanings are principles of unity inasmuch as they represent the same basic orientation of thought in different mental acts and different instances of use of language . |
| 22 | Verba and voluntas are words of dread in writing of interpretation in Roman private law : how far did the Roman jurists interpret according to the letter , how far according to the spirit , and how far according to the spirit as embodied in the letter ? |
| 23 | And there 's something you should know , the amethysts are stones of tranquillity , it might do you a bit of good to wear them . ’ |
| 24 | Jobcentres , commercial agencies , hospital noticeboards , shop windows and vacancy boards on industrial estates are sources of vacancies for all ages . |
| 25 | The kind of areas that will be covered in this course component are types of schools , their structure , management and ethos , the roles and expectations of both teachers and pupils , teachers ' working conditions and status , pastoral care and discipline . |
| 26 | ‘ Me Mum ses that theatres and pitcher houses are dens of sin . ’ |
| 27 | Here is another even better function for the eight queens problem whose values are lists of numbers . |
| 28 | Durham University are champions of divisions two and four , and Newcastle University have won division five . |
| 29 | Great passes like the Cairngorm lairigs are rights of way , as are many major glens . |
| 30 | Yet a third kind are colonies of polyps but ones that have , confusingly , given up their attachment to the sea bottom and sail free like medusae . |