Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I am Treasurer of the Scottish Cycling Council ( the Scottish ‘ arm ’ of the CTC ) , and I do quite a bit of cycling for leisure , including much of the Borders Region which is , in many ways , ideal for cycling ) . |
| 2 | I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district . |
| 3 | I 'm head of the Zimbalan President 's security team . ’ |
| 4 | I was secretary of the working party which produced the statement . |
| 5 | Angela and I was head of the International Department from nineteen forty-eight to nineteen seventy-two . |
| 6 | I actually invited him when I was Director of the British Film Academy to come to London erm and with the help erm of Brian Coe of Kodak we actually reconstructed about thirty seconds of this two-colour process erm and put it on a screen for our filmmaker colleagues in London . |
| 7 | Mackie thinks the idea that there could be such inherently prescriptive properties and relations , which are part of the genuine fabric of the world . |
| 8 | In particular , prepositions , which are part of the closed class because of the fixed size of their numbers and their grammatical function , often express an essential aspect of the meaning of an utterance . |
| 9 | At 17 , she suddenly became very lethargic , put on weight and suffered ‘ swollen glands ’ ( enlargement of the lymph nodes , which are part of the immune system ) . |
| 10 | He points out that most ignore the astonishing number of racist attacks which are part of the everyday life of black people in many of the inner city areas , and that the police in such areas are notoriously selective in their surveillance of black people . |
| 11 | Of course the student also needs to learn how to co-ordinate dialogue with all of the necessary actions and movements which are part of the natural traffic of performance , and learn about prop handling . |
| 12 | Erm by insuring that direct line , and that we have training facilities here which are part of the social contract , and that we have er investment , through regional investment , in this particular area , then we can create jobs that suit the skills that we 've er made available to the general population , and that we got through that rail link a direct line access to all the markets within Europe , which is going to expand , er not withstanding my objections , from the twelve to the sixteen and right the way through to Russia . |
| 13 | Sir , in making reference to erm policies which erm have relevance to the question of the status of the two sites we 're concerned with , I will start with those which are part of the statutory plan , that is to say the North Yorkshire County Structure Plan approved by the Secretary of State , and then proceed downwards to the more recent documents which do not employ . |
| 14 | If we attempt to put the wrong type of things together , or attempt separate explanations of things which are part of the same natural kind , then we are going to struggle to produce successful science . |
| 15 | The desire to establish that one was the first to arrive with the finding , and the priority disputes which are part of the scientific game , are testimony to the point . |
| 16 | Fig. 10 includes large proportions of rabbits and birds , neither of which were part of the comparative fauna obtained by trapping , so that the two samples appear very dissimilar . |
| 17 | Because of the workings of the housing market the local working population tends to congregate on the village council housing estate ( where one is available ) , where the closely knit patterns of neighbourly association which were part of the occupational community are retained . |
| 18 | v. Commission of the European Communities ( Joined Cases 154/78 , 205/78 , 206/78 , 226/78 , 227/78 , 228/78 , 263/78 , 264/78 , 31/79 , 39/79 , 83/79 , 85/79 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 907 that the guarantee afforded to the ownership of property did not extend to protect commercial interests , the uncertainties of which were part of the very essence of economic activity . |
| 19 | As a sign of this , a statue of Sanjurjo in Pamplona was adorned with one of the red berets which were part of the Carlist uniform . |
| 20 | The reflection of political partisanship in the establishment of broadcasting stations could , if current trends continue , lead to a near-doubling of the present number of radio and television stations so that each state capital will have two of each : one which is part of the federal system and the other belonging to the state broadcasting service . |
| 21 | Protagon is the brand name of Arrow Sport which is part of the 45 company strong Pees Group , the Head Office of which is in Essen , Germany . |
| 22 | And , when the Committee of the Four Home Unions refused Australia 's application to play a handful of games in South Africa before touring Ireland and Wales in October , all that was left on the table was next year 's tour which is part of the International Rugby Football Board 's tours rota . |
| 23 | WORK IS now proceeding on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway 's 1.4 mile extension to Far Stanley , which is part of the long-term aim of re-opening the line to Cheltenham . |
| 24 | The tutor and clinical teacher can give guidance and support to ensure that too large a topic is not undertaken : ‘ advice to patients before discharge ’ needs to be narrowed to an area of care which is part of the modular experience . |
| 25 | The defence is , of course , one which is part of the common law , not statute , being founded upon public policy . |
| 26 | Yes , and this planet is moving round the sun , which is part of the solar system . |
| 27 | The undermining of local government ( which is part of the deliberate down-grading of all alternative power systems to the central State ) means that communities are being weakened by having no means to advance their own ambitions and to tackle their own problems in their own way . |
| 28 | And it was interesting because er , we were talking about propulsion , talking about all types of er mechanics and sciences , and the way they 'd write up a report at the end which is part of the English part of it , and one of the youngsters said to me , he said , can I go home Mr ? |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a security measure and it will continue for some time , ’ said a police spokesman , who revealed that the roads , one of which is part of the main Clogher to Omagh Road , had been closed under a Secretary of State 's Order . |
| 30 | The Bank of England is divided into the Issue Department , which is part of the public sector accounting system , and the Banking Department . |