Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man of unity possesses no rivals for the very meaning of unity is to be at one with all men and all things . |
| 2 | If any sense of unity is to be preserved it must be created by the historians who tell the story . |
| 3 | This new form of Unity was to be concerned with foreign policy issues , virtually to the exclusion of the domestic policies contained in the original Unity Manifesto . |
| 4 | I have asked LRDA , per Paul Furbank , to try and find out what the state of play is with Service Inns Ltd . |
| 5 | The aim of assessment is to : |
| 6 | The importance of ISDN is as the foundation for the entire model ; the single , standard interface through which all the rest will be provided : ‘ Our model says that this guy needs one interface ’ , says Corris , then he can decide when making a call that he wants to use certain intelligent aspects of the network , he can say ‘ I need another channel … |
| 7 | This interpretation of the universal direction of progress is of course in keeping with the more liberal Victorian assumptions . |
| 8 | Its defenders claim that to create the impression of progress is in itself a vital part of crisis management . |
| 9 | The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays . |
| 10 | The most striking absence of progress was in economic policy . |
| 11 | All power , all profits , all our sources of livelihood are in their hands — but the one thing they leave behind will destroy them — the hatred of a million coolies ! |
| 12 | Their main line of support is through the day centre manager . |
| 13 | Labour 's traditional bedrock of support is among the working classes as exemplified by the trade unions . |
| 14 | The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell . |
| 15 | In fact , an examinations of historical documentation ( real-time evidence ) suggests that the direction of change is towards raising . |
| 16 | This pattern of change is by no means exceptional in the fossil record ( see , for example , Gould & Calloway , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Where these agents of change were in accord with each other , and where some at least of them were directly engaged in the deeper levels of the everyday classroom practice of the teachers concerned , significant change tended to follow . |
| 18 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 19 | The inner layer of shell is of nacre , or Mother-of-pearl . |
| 20 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 21 | None the less , observers of animal behaviour know that altruistic acts with differing degrees of self-sacrifice are of common occurrence , ranging from parental care to group defence and rescue behaviour to complex forms of co-operation . |
| 22 | Where flows are heavy , segregation would be the norm ; elsewhere integration with vehicular traffic in calmed areas would be perfectly acceptable , provided that safety was the principal criterion and that directness of route was in no way compromised . |
| 23 | Bills of exchange raise special transparency considerations , for it is a tenet of the law relating to such instruments that the terms of payment are to be found exclusively in the instrument itself , without reference to extraneous facts . |
| 24 | This was the conclusion of the House of Lords in May & butcher v. R. ( 1934 ) where an agreement for the purchase of government tentage provided that the price , the manner of delivery and dates of payment were to be agreed upon from time to time . |
| 25 | The candle of hope is to me a more satisfactory symbol than a sickly stanza . |
| 26 | Initially , the immigrants provided too much competition for the aspiring local working class , as , coming from countries where the process of industrialisation was under way , they were able to use their knowledge and experience to seize the initiative in entrepreneurial activity . |
| 27 | The parents ' sense of disempowerment was at this stage complete . |
| 28 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 29 | The 275 acres of pasture are of the best and surround the house on all sides , undulating towards distant hills — and to Dublin airport only half-an-hour away . |
| 30 | A penn'orth of heart 's worth all your skinny clever heads ! … . |