Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They 're breaking their part of the contract now . |
| 2 | as if I had n't been through enough today , I 've just been dubbed your plaything of the week — ’ |
| 3 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | The value of the project will be to increase our understanding of the conditions for social and political stability and instability in the contemporary world . |
| 5 | If he expected any other price level he would not be acting rationally since he would not be forming his expectation of the price level in line with the process determining it ; that is , the aggregate supply and demand process depicted in figure 4.4 . |
| 6 | But the distinguishing feature of those films ( even if they can not quite be credited with inventing the conceit ) was what might be called their sense of the inverted anachronism . |
| 7 | Sri Lankans , who have lost two of their three main political leaders within eight days , will be asked their opinion of the remaining politicians at provincial elections on May 17th . |
| 8 | Serbs and Albanians rarely talk to each other now and are mutating their image of the opposing culture into something evil and sinister . |
| 9 | We take considerable heart from the knowledge that — despite the strain on educational resources — many teachers are showing their awareness of the importance of money management education to the future lives of their pupils by active efforts to integrate it into curricula . |
| 10 | Phonological spelling errors are often characteristic of good readers who are extending their use of the phonological strategy into an inappropriate task . |
| 11 | The multiples in particular are increasing their share of the market . |
| 12 | Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket . |
| 13 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 14 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 15 | It was immediately adjourned by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party when it became clear that the opposition parties were continuing their boycott of the legislature . |
| 16 | As Japanese , Thai and Khmer Rouge officials met in Bangkok to try to end the impasse , the Khmers Rouges suddenly announced on Aug. 27 that they were dropping their boycott of the peace monitoring process and would resume co-operation with UNTAC . |
| 17 | Indeed , in the pre-war years peasant households of this kind were increasing their proportion of the land , output and inventory of central Russia . |
| 18 | The baby , despite the fact that he has been denied his birthright of the care of deeply loving parents who created him in love , is as well cared for — ’ |
| 19 | And although a three-man Newcastle delegation will watch Andersson against Ghent tonight , boss Keegan fears club politics are hampering his assessment of the player . |
| 20 | The unifying theory of plate tectonics is transforming our understanding of the birth and destruction of oceans , the origin of volcanoes and of ore deposits , and the building of mountains . |
| 21 | In his early discussion of defamiliarization Shklovsky chooses a number of examples which imply that the business of art is to restore our perception of the world outside art , ‘ to make one feel things , to make the stone stony ’ ( 1965a : 12 ) . |
| 22 | The basis of his theory of democracy is a theory of capitalist enterprise , and Schumpeter emphasizes the connection not only by discussing the historical relation between capitalism and democracy , but by treating political parties as analogous to business concerns engaged in a competitive struggle ( for power in one case , profits in the other ) the aim of which for each party/enterprise is to increase its share of the market ( constituted by voters or consumers ) . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases . |
| 24 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 25 | Rather the role of the Holy Spirit is to heighten their awareness of the problem and enable them to identify with those to whom they are called to speak . |
| 26 | Now , Brion Gysin , Burroughs 's fellow denizen of Tangier , is getting his share of the spotlight . |
| 27 | Western feminists ' growing interest in differences between women is strengthening their awareness of the need for a more complex view of socialization . |
| 28 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 29 | The significant point however is that the speaker is evoking his view of the possibility of the daring , and it is only by logical implication that we infer his opinion of its realization . |
| 30 | Furthermore , not only does Hilton imply that he is implementing his treatment of the subject in Scale 1 at the beginning of Scale 2 , there are also points in Scale 1 where he anticipates a development of his subject beyond that relevant for his immediate recipient . |