Example sentences of "be [pron] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that . |
| 2 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 3 | Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs . |
| 4 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 5 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 6 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 7 | Only do this where you think there may actually be someone of the right calibre available . |
| 8 | Any such deep body of liquid is likely to rise to a level corresponding to isostatic equilibrium , and there would be none of the observed mascons . |
| 9 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 10 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 11 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 12 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 13 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 14 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 15 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 16 | With what a masterly skill is everyone of the varying tints displayed . |
| 17 | A key question is which of the existing ITV companies will win back their contracts — and what happens to their programmes if they do n't ? |
| 18 | The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts . |
| 19 | There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there . |
| 20 | There is none of the restless westwardness of the US . |
| 21 | And perhaps the most difficult one to remember is the easiest of the lot , the acid plus the metal cos there 's none of the usual stuff , no salt no water just the hydrogen coming off . |
| 22 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 23 | There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together . |
| 24 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 25 | What we do learn , however , from the article and the use of it by Hildyard and Olson is something of the ideological nature of recent claims for the consequences of literacy . |
| 26 | When you or , when you order five hundred reams of paper , do you get five hundred reams and is it of the right quality from the sheets . |
| 27 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 28 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 29 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
| 30 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |