Example sentences of "[pron] are [adv] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are also Companions of Honour , an order additional used as a way of rewarding prime ministers ' political friends , so ‘ that Norman Tebbitt and Lord Whitelaw , neither known as retiring aesthetes , rub shoulders with Anthony Powell , Lucien Freud and Dame Ninette de Valois . |
| 2 | Their attraction is based on an image which is at the other extreme from the uncertainty and powerlessness which are also part of adolescence . |
| 3 | There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) . |
| 4 | They are of a completely different sort from purely material things , such as trees and stones , which are only objects of perception , and not themselves perceivers . |
| 5 | This chapter is intended for those who are not teachers of reading but who , as parents , teachers , and librarians , wish to support both the specialist teachers and the learner-readers . |
| 6 | Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands . |
| 7 | Without doubt , the construction of such a hegemonic bloc for socialist objectives must involve winning the support of many people who regard themselves as ‘ middle class ’ or of no class , many who have never considered themselves socialists , many who are not members of trade unions , by colonising and re-defining the notion of the popular or national interest ( while avoiding chauvinism and the opportunistic erasure of real social differences ) . |
| 8 | These men , you will remember , often come to our MRA assemblies , and told the British press last summer , ‘ we are not apostles of apartheid ; we are champions of change . ’ |
| 9 | In other words , that we are not victims of chance and fate , but take an active part in our destiny , which is a spiritual drama . |
| 10 | Not having set off from directly overhead Gransden ( a practice advisable in murky conditions ) we are slightly south of track . |
| 11 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 12 | Indeed there are even differences of opinion among environmentalists over how this increasing demand upon the countryside is to be accommodated . |
| 13 | There are also reports of exit visas being refused . |
| 14 | There are also areas of confusion : it is not uncommon to meet feminists who disagree with Wages for Housework ( on grounds similar to those quoted above ) yet would support increases in child benefit or the right of wives and cohabiting women to claim SB for themselves . |
| 15 | There are also claims of drug taking and vandalism . |
| 16 | There are also differences of detail : for example , on the Lyon coin the pedestal under the figure of Mars is missing , and there is no relief sculpture on the attic below the chariot . |
| 17 | There are also differences of religion and of family structure , and quite different expectations about the possibility , or desirability , of returning ‘ home ’ . |
| 18 | There are also complaints of litter . |
| 19 | There are also difficulties of child-rearing and politicking at one and the same time . |
| 20 | There are also samples of microdata from the 1991 Census of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( the Samples of Anonymised Records or SARs ) ; these will be held at Manchester , and are being handled and supported by the Census Microdata Unit . |
| 21 | There are also beds of limestone close on the line at Snead and Lydham suitable for building stone , although not sufficiently pure to compete with Porthywaen lime for agricultural purposes . |
| 22 | Other viewpoints may be defined which occupy an intermediate location between these two , and there are also schools of thought which are not readily assimilable to the dimension suggested , for example those which put emphasis on a radical definition of ‘ children 's rights ’ . |
| 23 | There are also sectors of growth , and the geography of these is explored . |
| 24 | There are also scores of appellation contrôlée country wines of real quality costing between £1 and £2 per bottle . |
| 25 | There are also pitfalls of training ; you ca n't just take someone on , on test and say ‘ you are on test on the motorway ’ , that there 's got to be training . |
| 26 | There are also reminders of church life in earlier times . |
| 27 | There are also costs of compliance , for example , the costs of delays or of more expensive design or construction . |
| 28 | However , there are also aspects of ideology which are not quite so obvious . |
| 29 | There are accordingly pages of text in the surviving papers which have been mutilated : sections cut out or pasted over , and some very heavily scored through . |
| 30 | " There are already flashes of independence from the units . " |