Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be recognized that identification of fluctuation effects of small magnitude requires data with a high signal-to-noise ratio . |
| 2 | For instance , the relatively high costs of a quality orientated operation can only be justified if forecasts of market demand show that customers will remain insensitive to price increases , but sensitive to variations in product quality . |
| 3 | DOZENS of men are to be exposed as clients of vice girl Kathy Willets after a court ruled her little black book can be made public . |
| 4 | However , it could be checked if questions of competence arose . |
| 5 | This problem is an integral part of the acid rain problem and will only be solved when emissions of sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen are substantially reduced . |
| 6 | Though designed both to save foreign exchange and for social welfare reasons , this policy had later to be modified as problems of quality and unreliable supply multiplied . |
| 7 | If the cucullati could be depicted as objects of ridicule , other religious images could have suffered too . |
| 8 | To attain efficiency , it would be expected that factors of production would be allocated so that their marginal products would be equal . |
| 9 | The contradiction remains that in a liberal framework , feminism can be tolerated in a piecemeal way , and be claimed as evidence of enlightenment and progress , so long as nothing else — the rest — has to change . |
| 10 | The assumption tends to be made that principles of normalisation , the self-advocacy movement , and professional/client relationships will somehow remain in tune with each other . |
| 11 | From Figure 4.3 it can be seen that shareholders of Jaguar have done very well since privatisation — especially as a result of the bid from Ford . |
| 12 | It can be seen that questions of lawfulness and legitimacy shade into one another here though the answers do not : the lawfulness of the action taken , confirmed by the House of Lords in 1984 ( Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 935 ) did not and does not dispose of its legitimacy . |
| 13 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 14 | It should also be said that people of influence , who have n't put it in writing , also openly agreed with the placing of a bolt . |
| 15 | It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district . |
| 16 | Prejudice ( encompassing Racism and Equal Opportunities which are listed separately in the Arrangements document , but can be presented as forms of prejudice ) |
| 17 | Although some physical geographers such as Thomas ( 1980 p. v ) have argued that study of the energetics of the land surface ‘ has perhaps robbed the subject of some of its scope and depth ’ it can be argued that investigations of process energetics have provided some depth of understanding and have extended the scope towards recent temporal change ( p. 153 ) . |
| 18 | It can be argued that rates of interest may also influence the precautionary demand . |
| 19 | It can be argued that techniques of drone and repetition are particularly sympathetic to connotations having to do with ‘ collectivism ’ : they play down ‘ difference ’ , privilege the ‘ typical ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 21 | Daily efficiency may be affected and bouts of preoccupation lead to difficulties in concentration . |
| 22 | He said computer networks would not be affected and copies of information should be made on floppy discs . |
| 23 | Changes in sea level may cause the swamp to be flooded and layers of sand to be deposited on top of the peat . |
| 24 | However , it should be noted that Secretary of State for Employment Gillian Shephard has announced that the Government intends to bring forward more employment legislation . |
| 25 | It should be noted that degree of disinfection depends on heat and time . |
| 26 | It should be noted that counts of breeding pairs of this species must be made early in the year to be accurate . |
| 27 | For if all ontological claims are to be understood as forms of man 's own self-understanding , rather than conveying , successfully or otherwise , certain objective existential facts ' , then existentialism itself turns out to be a form of reductivism . |
| 28 | Policies must be understood as products of politics , and attention must be given to the policy creation roles of politicians , civil servants , pressure groups and the electorate . |
| 29 | How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince . |
| 30 | Indeed , the idea that women might take control of their desire to the point where men come to be judged as objects of pleasure is felt to be so threatening as to be tabooed . |