Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 2 | Dr Williams has been through the ranks of the order and now holds the post of County Surgeon for County Durham . |
| 3 | In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives , the pickers have been through the contents of the bins . |
| 4 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 6 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 7 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 8 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 9 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 10 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 11 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 12 | When you no longer have children dependent on you — and provided you are between the ages of 40 and 60 — you are eligible for a widow 's pension . |
| 13 | The majority of carers are between the ages of forty and sixty , with some eight per cent under forty . |
| 14 | If you are between the ages of 36 and 45 , the maximum is 20 per cent . |
| 15 | If you are between the ages of 46 and 50 , the amount is 25 per cent . |
| 16 | If you are between the ages of 51 and 55 , you can pay 30 per cent . |
| 17 | If you are between the ages of 56 and 60 , the maximum is 35 per cent . |
| 18 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 19 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 20 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 21 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 22 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 23 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
| 24 | They 're like the emperors of old : they do n't like bad news , so their servants make sure the truth never gets through to them . |
| 25 | Erm I think what we have to do in particular as , as , as full time officers is , is probably try and er and erm chase things up although they they 're within the realms of the respo the respective LEC 's but to try and make sure that they do get some clearer , if not confirmed , insight into re in relation to the contribution aspect . |
| 26 | Most training jumps are done from a height of 12,000 feet ; any higher and you need oxygen and you 're in the realms of military freefall , which is just what we 'll be looking at in part 3 of Free fall USA . |
| 27 | By the time she 's cleared the jam , they 're in the outskirts of Bournemouth . |
| 28 | I think that 's one of the purposes Mr chairman also of the , of the educational seminar that we 're in the throes of organizing , to actually to do that . |
| 29 | I did in fact attempt to return your telephone call , but when I rang you were out , and our current panic ( we 're in the throes of mounting our summer exhibition ) prevented me from getting back to you before your letter reached me . |
| 30 | Unperturbed , he said , ‘ When you 're in the throes of passion I might be able to make you admit to it yet . |