Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context . |
| 7 | One sign of change is that some senior politicians have broken with the establishment by founding a reformist faction within the ruling party . |
| 8 | The most frequently mentioned aspect of change was that the consciousness of the cost of treatment now had a bearing on decision making . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The early process of change was as follows ( Figures 36.136.4 ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this case , the test of discrimination was whether the applicant was invited to interview . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The advantage of this concept of function is that it avoids absolute distinctions between one kind of text and another . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Their understanding of racism was that it was about Afro-Caribbean people and maybe people from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During his subsequent trial , however , Poindexter 's central line of defence was that he had acted with the general authorization of the President . |
| 21 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 22 | The test for remoteness of damage was whether the kind of damage suffered by the plaintiff was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant at the time of the breach of duty . |
| 23 | The less common view of physics was that it was concerned with exploration , breadth , uncertainty . |
| 24 | The allegation of negligence was that the defendant had failed to observe a foetal abnormality during pregnancy and the plaintiff had been denied the possibility of an abortion . |
| 25 | The problem with this type of measure is that compiling the figures is a time-consuming and essentially clerical task . |
| 26 | What happens in the Celebration is of Election is that the erm it happens at the end of mass I think or round the end of mass . |
| 27 | The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled . |
| 28 | Yet the danger of both these kinds of literature is that they offer just the kinds of all-explaining and deterministic theories as the form of Marxism we reviewed earlier . |
| 29 | The difference between the two classes of case is that , whereas the innocent party has the option of affirming the contract after a fundamental breach , there is no possibility of affirmation after a breach of fundamental term , since the breach amounts to a total non-performance of the contract . |
| 30 | But actually in between , I 'd forgotten the in between bit of course is while all this pandemonium 's going on , the neighbourhood did n't realize she was moving , or perhaps one or two did . |