Example sentences of "[be] [adj] of [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance . |
| 2 | Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism . |
| 3 | There were 37 attempted and full burglaries and once more hi-fi and electrical equipment has been top of the burglars ' list . |
| 4 | She maintains that many well-meaning New Agers are innocently misled through hypnosis and mind-control and are unaware of the movement 's ultimate goals . |
| 5 | Major Mike Twinn , who commands seven detachments within the Middlesbrough area , believes many people are unaware of the detachment 's existence . |
| 6 | This is the strategy employed by strangers who are fearful of the cat 's claws and have to find some way of picking it up without being attacked . |
| 7 | And so those architects who remember the Third Reich are fearful of the politician 's desire to build on an imperial scale . |
| 8 | They are indicative of the government 's shaky hold over grass-roots politics . |
| 9 | SIR — The reports that Mr Patten , having failed to hold on to his seat in Parliament , might be wheeled out as Governor of Hong Kong ( April 16 ) are symptomatic of the Government 's indifference to the wishes of the people who actually live there . |
| 10 | Too much apple pie ’ , kicked its way into many ears that had previously been unaware of the band 's existence . |
| 11 | In 1723 , for example , the member of parliament for Stirlingshire was John Graham of Killearn , the chamberlain of the Duke of Montrose , a man chiefly remembered for having been relieved of the duke 's rents at pistol point by Rob Roy MacGregor . |
| 12 | You see , Mach 's scheme works only if we 're unaware of the T'ang 's role in things . |
| 13 | Effective RE must therefore be concerned with the building-up of concepts which are worthy of a person 's total development , emotional , experiential and intellectual , and which fairly represent what is at the heart of all great religious traditions . |
| 14 | There is a relevant distinction here between data that are independent of the evaluator 's own judgements and data that are not . |
| 15 | Not only environment groups and analysts such as Nigel Haigh of IEEP are sceptical of the government 's claims . |
| 16 | Many Sri Lankans are sceptical of the government 's instant solution to the murder . |
| 17 | Although government officials are confident of somehow finding a way next year to pay for the national backbone network , they are sceptical of the LDP 's ability to break through the ceiling on overall spending on science . |
| 18 | HAVING REACHED the point of flying your model around in circuits , rather like a fixed-wing model , you will sooner or later-probably sooner-arrive at a point where you are unsure of the model 's exact position or attitude . |
| 19 | George was insistent that Tamar must be ignorant of the man 's presence . |
| 20 | The section makes it dangerous for a director to be unaware of the company 's financial position , since liability may ensue where a director fails to take appropriate action to ‘ minimise the potential loss to the company 's creditors ’ once it would have been apparent to a properly informed director that the company was heading for liquidation . |
| 21 | The range of drink-associated items buried as grave-goods may be symbolic of an individual 's role in society in the same way that pieces of weaving equipment in durable materials are found in richly accompanied women 's graves . |
| 22 | The result was widely considered to be indicative of the government 's increasing unpopularity . |
| 23 | The fact that the language acquired in this way often has English grammatical rules added to it , may be indicative of the adult 's need to learn as well as acquire . |
| 24 | Will he be conscious of the building 's associations and traditions ? |
| 25 | In the previous chapter , some conditions that an hypothesis should satisfy in order to be worthy of a scientist 's consideration were mentioned . |
| 26 | Hopefully by this stage the counsellee will be sure of the counsellor 's genuineness . |
| 27 | Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking . |
| 28 | The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault . |
| 29 | Stifling a giggle , she hazarded a guess that the wardrobe would be full of the son 's clothes . |
| 30 | We should also be proud of the NHS 's achievement in that respect . |