Example sentences of "be [pron] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power . |
| 2 | There are just two comfortable and well-appointed apartments available at the Residence Elena and outside the building there are plenty of sitting areas — all around and under the mulberry trees where chicken and ducks cluck and quack away contentedly . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Brazil , even if the economics ministry succeeds in uniting the country 's industry behind quotas , there will be plenty of arguing before any international system can be set up . |
| 4 | The teacher had been specific about dress : ‘ Do n't wear your best clothes , girls , there 'll be lots of running around and some floor-games ! ’ |
| 5 | There were plenty of eating places about the heart of the city . |
| 6 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 7 | There is plenty of shipping in the Crouch . |
| 8 | Curled alongside the mighty Rhine there 's plenty of messing about on the river to do , and the hospitality would certainly help when entertaining Mr. Toad . |
| 9 | And from soccer to speedway , the season starts tomorrow and there 's plenty of racing this weekend . |
| 10 | What hope is there of saying anything about a whole work , if each small sentence deserves to be scrutinized in this way ? " |
| 11 | She 's a woman in love , so she 's very melodramatic and a bit neurotic and there 's lots of to do , but it 's good fun . |
| 12 | Okay so there 's lots of showing somebody , actually demonstrating how something is made then doing it together step by step and as you say follow up with going through the whole stage not just making the plane but actually demonstrating how it works . |
| 13 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |
| 14 | Demonstrators are called to the microphone to be presented with their prizes and there 's lots of hugging and kissing . |
| 15 | Easily Accessible : There is lots of walking to be done as New Capernwray is only half an hour from both the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales and the immediate area has much unspoilt countryside to explore . |
| 16 | There are lots of planting opportunities left for the season : I would like to try a little herbary , for example , and go for a bigger emphasis on autumn colour . |
| 17 | There are lots of stirring epigrammatic statements aimed at inspiring our inspirers . |
| 18 | There was plenty of tooting going on already . |
| 19 | Gradually , over the years , the colour of the breed became darker through mahogany to black , and there was plenty of crossing to the Hereford for its grazing characteristics and to the Ayrshire to restore milk yields . |
| 20 | There was plenty of crossing with Jerseys and Friesians in the 1960s and 1970s , so that the pure Swedish Mountain is now rare . |
| 21 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |