Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 2 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 3 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 4 | The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains . |
| 5 | In most towns , however , the factory system was hardly evident and many urban workers seem to have been still keeping hold of Saint Monday as , almost , an accepted holiday in 1815 . |
| 6 | Unless a union is negotiating with a monopoly corporation or with companies which are collectively violating standards of decency and justice in their own employment practices , the outcome of such a bargain must of necessity be unjust . |
| 7 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 8 | Detectives are also viewing hours of video tape from cameras covering the grounds of the four offices involved . |
| 9 | Unlike previous operating system releases , which are often handcrafted patchworks of technology , Solaris is an assembly of working , tested and quality-checked components , Bourne declares , and the thing undergoes some 40,000 tests . |
| 10 | All the C&P businesses are now using Cost of Quality as one of their criteria of success . |
| 11 | The reform of both workforce training and of pre-vocational preparation in schools , in order to raise productivity , are now accepted priorities of government policies . |
| 12 | Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's . |
| 13 | Training Ffestiniog slate men one of these days they say there is no more Ffestiniog slate and that 's it its gone bankrupt and er But I mean that can be easily arranged sort of thing . |
| 14 | ‘ All mom and dad talk about is politics , I 'm already getting kind of sick of it , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Mock solemnity of this kind may seem rather tiresome , just as practical jokes are often not funny to those on whom they are played ( they may often appear to be lightly camouflaged forms of aggression ) , but such jokes were characteristic of the society in which he now moved : it is difficult to imagine him playing tricks on Pound or Lewis , for example . |
| 16 | Those curtains are called ‘ precipitation ’ by meteorologists and are fast falling products of condensation in the atmosphere of rain , hail or snow . |
| 17 | Both are today showing signs of weakness , but they are still far short of the east-coast mess . |
| 18 | Micro-organisms growing in ventilation systems must be carefully controlled , since they are well known causes of ill-health , especially in ‘ sensitive ’ people . |
| 19 | Biopsy trauma is itself a stimulus to the synthesis of eicosanoids , but tissue fragments used for short incubation periods overcome the problems of tissue viability and both mechanical and chemical stimulation of synthesis of leukotriene are well established methods of generation under standardised conditions . |
| 20 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 21 | The time was 6.30 a.m. , the bunks on either side of the hut were now showing signs of life and the Sergeant made his noisy way towards the door at the far end of the hut , banging on each bed with his stick as he went . |
| 22 | This Imperial Manifesto stated that the people of Russia were now allowed freedoms of speech , conscience and assembly ; trade unions were to be legalized ; individuals could not go to jail without having a trial ; the people were now allowed to elect a new parliament called the Duma , which would advise the Tsar and approve new laws . |
| 23 | Totems , he argued , were mystically charged symbols of group cohesion and identity — badges of belonging . |
| 24 | The decline of family life , the lowering of standards in the schools , the ‘ permissive ’ worm within , the irresponsibility of working mothers and their delinquent ‘ latch-key ’ children , the excessive leniency of the law , and the unwarranted interference of the ‘ softy-softy , namby-pamby pussyfooting ’ of the ‘ so-called experts ’ — these were well trodden avenues of complaint by ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts and ‘ anti-permissive ’ moralists , warning of a vast historical degeneration among the British people . |
| 25 | Fry were simply fed jugfuls of snail tank water as required . |
| 26 | I was there recently and the spectacular cliffs are a wonderful place to see seabirds from close up , but the paths were definitely showing signs of erosion . |
| 27 | I would guess that the ‘ something or other ’ are negatively charged ions of fluorine , chlorine and maybe oxygen . |
| 28 | In Japan ‘ Grand Champions ’ are so highly prized that they are officially made wards of court , and can not be exported from the country . |
| 29 | The leading case is Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission , where the House of Lords held that the effect of an exclusion clause is only to prevent errors of law by a tribunal which are within its jurisdiction : the clause would not prevent the review of decisions outside jurisdiction . |
| 30 | Dr Mason said the move , which involved the loss of about 18 staff , went against Strathclyde 's long held policy of education pre-school children . |