Example sentences of "[vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction .
2 Mortensen ( 1933a ) concluded that the characters of the disk are subject to a number of variations , especially occurrence of spines , differences in scaling , but that features of the oral frame are sufficiently constant to easily identify this species .
3 All that exists of the imposing dwelling is a few feet of wall and an open fireplace adjoining Cumnor Church .
4 read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns .
5 The picture that emerges of the founding treaties is thus one , not of immutable texts , but of texts subject to periodical evolution .
6 All that remains of the Saussurean model is the primacy of language and an emphasis on the signifier , both of which are even more strongly asserted here than in poetics .
7 Tuttle stopped short of saying that the Laetoli footprints were Homo — fossil remains of the same age were needed at Laetoli , he said .
8 ( RB ) INSET : Freames Mill has now one but remains of the old boiler were still visible in 1984 .
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