Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun] of [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have said they are not cases of estoppel in the strict sense . |
| 2 | Teachers are not figures of respect in my country . |
| 3 | But there are still prisoners of conscience in Europe , and in every other region of the world . |
| 4 | Their export adviser confirmed that there are now indications of growth in the Turkish economy , with a balance of payments in surplus for the firs time in several years . |
| 5 | The Public Sector Borrowing Requirement ( PSBR ) is expected to be almost 6% of GDP in 1992/93 . |
| 6 | There are undoubtedly items of software in use today that could produce negative sums of squares and many others giving answers that are undetectably wrong . |
| 7 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 8 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 9 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wherever the records of mankind 's history and prehistory are to be found , whether in the ancient and strangely charactered , but nevertheless understandable by the learned , writings of bygone civilisations , or in the numerous findings of decades of archaeological investigations into the past history of human life , there is always evidence of belief in some form of ‘ god ’ . |
| 12 | There is also pressure of space in the town centre premises , although this has been partly alleviated by moving one advice worker to Easterside Library . |
| 13 | However , the Director of the Royal College of Music , Sir Hugh Allen , a pretty terrifying man to a young student , was also Professor of Music in Oxford , so I tremulously consulted him . |
| 14 | Diana was typically matter of fact in response to this ever-present threat . |
| 15 | In the early 1980s total lending to industry was around 35% of GDP in the UK , 36% in France and 43% in West Germany . |
| 16 | Mermaz , who had been president of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and was briefly Minister of Transport in 1988 , had been leader of the Socialist group in the Assembly since 1988 . |