Example sentences of "be [num] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though Cannes gets all the attention , there are hundreds of film festivals around the world , all keen to ‘ premiere ’ the latest hot American independent . |
| 2 | There are hundreds of specialist archives around the country . |
| 3 | And every day , there are hundreds of home accidents , many serious enough to require medical treatment at a hospital or from a doctor . |
| 4 | If there are hundreds of trade creditors ( as for a retailer ) or a lot of liability suits ( for example , for asbestos sufferers ) , then firms benefit by using the courts . |
| 5 | There are hundreds of apple varieties , so make sure you choose well |
| 6 | ‘ And unless you 're one of Charity LeVille 's nubile masseuses over from Gros Islet … ’ he 'd reached the bed , and to her horror slung his jacket over a nearby chair and sat down on the edge of the bed , far too close for comfort , continuing in the same bland tone , ‘ … which from the pious clutching of bedclothes I somehow doubt , maybe you 'd like to explain exactly who you are ? ’ |
| 7 | You 're one of life 's sowers , Andrew . ’ |
| 8 | They 're two of football 's straightest talkers with a record of championships … cup finals and promotion … |
| 9 | And I know he worked in insurance , but there must be hundreds of insurance offices , and dozens of schools . ’ |
| 10 | The survival of such a record can not be a unique event — there must be hundreds of account books , minute books , and such , waiting to yield up information on past activities . |
| 11 | The Bill will be a special one in that the political parties are allowing their members in both Houses a free vote because the issue is deemed to be one of conscience . |
| 12 | But it was because Aaron said a mildly humorous comment about somebody in one of Whit 's photos who turned out to be one of Whit 's very good friends . |
| 13 | Alternatively , parties may be dominated more by individuals than by issues , and the process may be one of competition for political leadership ( Schumpeter , 1954 ) . |
| 14 | Where the 80s economy was one of bust-boom-bust , the 90s economy would be one of stability . |
| 15 | This image might be one of reliability and technical competence , of innovation or sensitivity to customer needs ( etc ) . |
| 16 | The difference could be one of life or death . |
| 17 | Supremely happy not to be one of life 's ‘ practical men ’ . |
| 18 | Yet most people would agree that the fax machine has got to be one of life 's easier contraptions to master . |
| 19 | He 'd never exactly believed that his life was charmed youngest in a family of seven in Stoke Newington would have been a damned strange place to start out from if that had been the case — but he 'd never believed himself to be one of life 's victims either . |
| 20 | The charge against Carter should be one of manslaughter . |
| 21 | We found that neither in theory nor in practice need the net effect be one of disincentive . |
| 22 | Generalizations about the state of the towns in late medieval England are , however , risky ; each had its own history , which might be very different from that of its neighbour , and it is likely that even when more individual studies have been made of particular towns the general picture will be one of diversity rather than of similarity . |
| 23 | If one were to suggest to an electronics engineer that he might want to study how a circuit works by pulling bits out and observing changes in function his reaction would probably be one of horror ! |
| 24 | The first is that there may well be disagreement as to whether , on analytical grounds , a question should be deemed to be one of law or fact . |
| 25 | Thus some courts have reasoned on the hypothesis that if an issue is deemed to be one of law then this must inevitably involve substitution of judgment on their part . |
| 26 | The goal on which we would all agree , I suggest , would be one of fairness , whereby resources are distributed and technology applied in the right way . |
| 27 | The charge should be one of assault ( or battery ) contrary to s.39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 . |
| 28 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 29 | It should be noted , however , that the relationship between descriptive fact and pedagogic prescription can not be one of determinacy . |
| 30 | Our approach is to be one of evolution rather than revolution . |