Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 2 | Ideally , there should be more comprehensive information on housing need and the supply of dwellings across all tenures ( particularly if local authorities are to take on more of an enabling role ) . |
| 3 | Environmentalists in Czechoslovakia are becoming increasingly critical of their government 's decision to proceed unilaterally with the project . |
| 4 | Already , seed merchants are complaining that much of the seed already harvested is small , sprouting or diseased , which could lead to shortages next year and some farmers could face greater problems . |
| 5 | Medical researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the health and weight-control benefits of dietary fibre in general — but the indications are that different forms of fibre may perform different beneficial functions . |
| 6 | TWO enterprising traders are renting out hundreds of Christmas trees to families . |
| 7 | There are more and more opticians springing up in the High Street , shops selling healthcare equipment and equipment for the elderly are on the increase and shops are becoming more aware of deaf and disabled customers . |
| 8 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |
| 9 | The voluntary and private child care sectors are facing perhaps one of their most serious crises . |
| 10 | At Nicaea in 325 the bishops and priests ( from the Western part of the empire , only priests attended ) were called together by the emperor because theological disputes were putting too much of a strain on the unity he was striving to achieve . |
| 11 | A hybrid procedure combining most of the merits of both methods is to develop immediately one of the up- or down-problems ( This is depth-first search ) . |
| 12 | The bullet rolls momentarily and then comes to rest , but a slight lift of the rod-tip inches it round a little more , and then another lift until I am satisfied the crust is lying just short of the roots . |
| 13 | However , the Department is becoming increasingly conscious of the need to involve those sectors of the community with special needs , who in the past have not been encouraged to get involved in public consultation . |
| 14 | One of its great strengths is to show how many of the traditional values help people make sense of the world around them — no matter how irrational they might seem to outsiders . |
| 15 | It is very important that the prospective auditor/ adviser be made fully aware of all the relevant facts which might have led to the breakdown of the previous client relationship . |
| 16 | The purpose of this chapter is to fill out certain of the areas of the study of crime which have been discussed or referred to in earlier chapters , and to provide readings or extracts from original sociological work in this field . |
| 17 | By using the relatively new and rather powerful transactions cost analytical approach , combined with conventional and radical approaches within organisation theory , and insights from the sociology of work , combined with the results from recent empirical work on the introduction of new technology , the intention is to set out some of the possibilities and choices about the use of new technology at work , indicating the different pay-offs to particular groups , and suggesting that the outcomes in specific cases will depend not just on the technology itself but on the strategy and power of the various interested parties . |
| 18 | Blood is made up millions of cells . |
| 19 | Erm they estimated there was going to be a continued out migration , but the aim of the original West Yorkshire structure plan and the p erm strategic guidance was to contain rather more of the population . |
| 20 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 21 | The ‘ socialization ’ in school and in the Nazi youth movement — eleven-year-olds were told on their induction in the Jungvolk that ‘ from today onwards your life belongs to the Führer ’ — kept alive the heroic image of the Führer in many young Germans even when their parents were becoming increasingly critical of Hitler . |
| 22 | The fact that the Sun is producing far less of these enigmatic particles than expected could well be a symptom that it is going through a quiescent period — although it could equally well be that there is something wrong with our theories concerning what makes the Sun shine . |
| 23 | The sport is becoming ever more of a circus . |
| 24 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 25 | In looking at alternative uses , the first question is to decide how much of the interior it is desirable or practical to preserve . |
| 26 | On Dec. 21 El Sayed Noseir was found not guilty of murdering Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York in November 1990 [ see p. 37872 ] . |
| 27 | But after last Saturday 's impressive win at high-flying Shotton which broke their duck , Halkyn are feeling more confident of facing leaders Connah 's Quay . |
| 28 | The opportunities for domestic conflict are obvious , but at the same time the older generation of farm workers are made more aware of the opportunities that they themselves missed and of their lowly economic position compared with workers in other industries . |
| 29 | Thus just over a quarter of libraries were carrying out two-thirds of the formal management training noted by our sample , constituting an inequitable distribution of available expertise . |
| 30 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |