Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are anyway other anecdotes which for what they are worth trace the origin of political professionalism to dates earlier than Kleon : a Byzantine lexicon called the Suda , for instance , makes Pericles the first to take a written speech into court , while for Aristotle ( Cic . |
| 2 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 3 | CFCs are of course a new phenomenon ; entirely man-made . |
| 4 | Although these definitions are important to any attempt to compare different types of credit agreement in logic or law , they are of course a very far cry from how any consumer would define different types of credit . |
| 5 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
| 6 | My biases are of course no more or less biases than those I am going to examine . |
| 7 | Policy statements , DES/HMI publications , or research findings , whilst they are a useful source of encouragement for use with doubting colleagues , are of course no guarantee of action on the part of their authors , but often provide a useful framework in which to operate . |
| 8 | Sectors are of course the most significant creation of the 1980s . |
| 9 | The only mediaeval institutions to survive through to the present day are of course the older Universities . |
| 10 | But these are of course the modern city centre outdoor shops . |
| 11 | The thickened edges of these rafts are of course the mountain chains such as the Andes . |
| 12 | The only members of the hunt dedicated to the actual kill are of course the hounds , the huntsman whose job it is to train them to hunt , possibly a farmer whose stock has been damaged by foxes , and possibly the masters who are interested in controlling the fox population . |
| 13 | But as well as the bills and routine costs , there are of course the hidden costs of good health — hidden costs which can soon become expensive indeed . |
| 14 | The brightest objects are of course the lights themselves , but wide shots also include the darker areas which reduce the average brightness of the scene . |
| 15 | The baby was in the Rena for four weeks at two guineas a week … the bill amounted to £16.12s.10d. and so you see , with all these expenses , the cost of having a baby has turned out to be very great , and now there are of course the funeral fees . ’ |
| 16 | Everyday objects are of course the stock-in-trade of Arman , whose retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum continues until the 26th of this month . |
| 17 | These are of course the qualities most deficient since June 1989 . |
| 18 | The letters on the vane are of course the cardinal points of the compass in French , Nord , Sud , est & ouest . |
| 19 | Such alternations of musical sections are of course the basis of most conventional musical forms ( except those based on a single theme , such as fugue ) , and this important principle , of statement and change , coupled with the use of repetition , forms my main point . |
| 20 | These are of course the history teacher 's daily stock in trade , often taken for granted but when we are publicly called upon to justify the spending of taxpayers ' money on our subject , the most obvious may well be one of the strongest arguments for the teaching of history to all young people to the age of 16 . |
| 21 | Familiar ways in which such participant-roles are encoded in language are of course the pronouns and their associated predicate agreements . |
| 22 | There are of course the court of protection costs which are to be calculated and are not a source of disagreement . |
| 23 | The answer here is a very technical one , but the trustees of an organisation of this kind are of course the , the executive committee . |
| 24 | It it does seem to me that the Parish Council are of course an an elected body , who will if they have views on this subject no doubt have formal minutes which will set it out one way or the other . |
| 25 | There can be a number of ways to derive a reasonable model and there are a number of reasonable models ( there are of course an infinite number of inadequate models ) . |
| 26 | Erm you , you 're in fact a er everybody , er every Housing Officer erm oh what was I going to say ? |
| 27 | They 're on board an air ambulance which has just landed in Ancona , where they 'll meet the evacuees and prepare them for the journey to Britain . |
| 28 | We work a one-in-three rota , which means that we 're on duty every third night and weekend , as well as doing an ordinary working week . |
| 29 | But councillors are lokking for a more long term , solution … they 're to petion the county council for money for full time youth workers . |
| 30 | ‘ And once we 're at sea the food will be given out , ’ Ruth said . |