Example sentences of "[subord] be [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 2 | The same kind of criticism is sometimes levelled at newer , vocationally orientated courses in higher education ( such as secretarial studies , catering or nursing ) which are perceived , however inaccurately , as being largely a matter of skill acquisition . |
| 3 | People of his generation do tend to regard £1000 as being rather a lot of money , although the rest of us realise that it will hardly keep your motor car in petrol for long . |
| 4 | In ordinary language , this node expresses the situation in which readers judge their own satisfaction as being solely dependent on their own processing efforts ; and they judge the author 's satisfaction as being purely a matter of the authorial effort of writing . |
| 5 | He argued against those who saw the world economy as being merely a summation of national economies , and instead he posited that the world economy is a system with its own particular equilibrium . |
| 6 | Franca was amazed at her sudden power to develop vivid visual images of her mental states , a power which she had never exercised before , and which she thought of , not without satisfaction , as being perhaps a symptom of incipient madness . |
| 7 | Using BM though is mainly a question of understanding the basic principles and then carefully experimenting on the job , learning through doing . |