Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The only real teacher of Prayer is God Himself .
2 Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime .
3 Her outburst had at least got some of her anger off her chest , but she was still a prisoner , and when fresh falls of snow were forecast she felt near the end of her tether at the prospect of being trapped any longer at Rocamar .
4 The impression given by the Bulletin and its Supplement is that there is universal acceptance that the car will be the preferred and available mode of transport throughout the lifespan of the houses that are being constructed ; that individual car-ownership for all eligible people will be the norm ; and thus , though the need to curb the excesses of the car is recognised , other forms of transport are aberrances which must be made to fit around the key elements of the design , which are car-friendly .
5 Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives .
6 In practice , of course , economies of scale and economies of scope are processes which are usually run together as any firm diversifies .
7 ( 1 ) The primary meaning of democracy is government which is derived from public opinion and is accountable to it .
8 In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain .
9 The double of theatre is reality which today 's mankind leaves unused ’ ( Esslin 1976 ) .
10 As said , ‘ The history of science is science itself ’ and , appropriately , Fox uses the history of the study of heat in eighteenth and nineteenth century France to demonstrate the changing aspirations and preoccupations of the participating scientists .
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