Example sentences of "of [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important function of assessment is that it can help determine the extent to which a child 's language is subject to changes over time . |
| 2 | The final point by way of preface is that it is a mistake to assume that all black people are deprived . |
| 3 | A major benefit of ISDN is that it is a dial-up service , just like the ordinary phone network . |
| 4 | Our measure of progress is that the way that we ask these questions has changed . |
| 5 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 6 | The first consequence of the battle of Maserfelth was that Penda was left as sole king of the Mercians , without question the most powerful Mercian ruler so far to have emerged in the midlands . |
| 7 | The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries . |
| 8 | The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context . |
| 9 | One sign of change is that some senior politicians have broken with the establishment by founding a reformist faction within the ruling party . |
| 10 | The most frequently mentioned aspect of change was that the consciousness of the cost of treatment now had a bearing on decision making . |
| 11 | Good humour was needed — but the main message throughout the school 's planning and implementation of change was that every party in the system had to trust everyone else . |
| 12 | The early process of change was as follows ( Figures 36.136.4 ) |
| 13 | The problem with a lot of acts is that they do n't realize their limitations . |
| 14 | As Lord Keith said in Lonrho Plc. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 525 , 539 : ‘ The only significance of the absence of reasons is that if all other known facts and circumstances appear to point overwhelmingly in favour of a different decision , the decision-maker , who has given no reasons can not complain if the court draws the inference that he had no rational reason for his decision . ’ |
| 15 | The composition of the Cytherean atmosphere in terms of relative numbers of molecules is as follows : 96% CO 2 ; 3.5% N 2 ; 0.015% SO 2 ; about 0.01% H 2 O in the lower atmosphere ; 0.007% Ar ; plus traces of several other gases . |
| 16 | Perhaps the only glimmer of hope is that there has been no increase in the use of heroin , cocaine and crack just 1.2pc admit to trying them , the same as in 1990 . |
| 17 | The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing . |
| 18 | The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing . |
| 19 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 20 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |
| 21 | In this case , the test of discrimination was whether the applicant was invited to interview . |
| 22 | The plan of operations is as follows . |
| 23 | An interesting comparison between the two periods of operations was that in the Bennett era , only one aircraft failed to make the crossing . |
| 24 | The age and sex distribution of children who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed in the study area conformed to expected patterns , with slightly more boys and a peak age at diagnosis of 3 years ; the excess of Down 's syndrome in young children with non-lymphocytic forms of leukaemia is as would be expected . |
| 25 | The advantage of this concept of function is that it avoids absolute distinctions between one kind of text and another . |
| 26 | Yet the whole point of crossbenchers is that their values are unpigeonholeable . |
| 27 | For their part , the problem faced by the proponents of epigenesis was that no one could provide a reasonable explanation of how the embryo was formed . |
| 28 | Their understanding of racism was that it was about Afro-Caribbean people and maybe people from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 29 | The big drawback of FAXgrabber is that the quality of the text conversion is totally dependant on the quality of the original material — the received fax . |
| 30 | Final results for 498 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were as follows : PMDB 109 ( pre-election 130 ) ; PFL 92 ( 90 ) ; PDT 41 ( 31 ) ; PRN 41 ( 31 ) ; PDS 40 ( 32 ) ; Social Democratic Party of Brazil ( PSDB ) 37 ( 60 ) ; PT 34 ( 17 ) ; PTB 33 ( 28 ) ; Partido Democrata Cristao ( PDC ) 21 ( 15 ) ; Liberal Party ( PL ) 15 ( 13 ) ; Brazilian Socialist Party ( PSB ) 12 ( 8 ) ; Communist Party of Brazil ( PC do B ) five ( six ) ; Social Reform Party ( PRS ) 4 ( 7 ) ; Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) 3 ( 3 ) ; others 11 ( identified by acronyms as PSC 5 , PTR 2 , PST 2 , PMN 1 , PDS 1 ) . |