Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switching , if I may , from Victorian novelists to more contemporary novelists , who do you think are good novelists of today ? |
| 2 | Also calculated are various indices of readability , including Flesch-Kincaid , Flesch Reading Ease , Gunning 's Fog Index , and the LIX factor . |
| 3 | Now , what we do n't want are detailed particulars of the shop , the salesperson 's home address and physical attributes . |
| 4 | Also listed are possible courses of subsequent development for each margin subtype . |
| 5 | Resting , sleeping and generally vegetating are obvious ways of unwinding . |
| 6 | Changes over time to things that are seen and heard are powerful forms of stimulation for young infants , and the main purpose of the research is to explore systematically infants ' ability to detect and respond to such change . |
| 7 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 8 | ‘ There has been specific targeting of areas like the Shankill and Ballymurphy areas of West Belfast , ’ said one detective . |
| 9 | ‘ Autumn is my season , twilight is my hour and all my life has been one chain of related twilights ’ , he has written . |
| 10 | There has been extensive coverage of select committees ( especially in the Thursday programme as many committees meet on Wednesdays ) and some coverage of standing committees ( perhaps not surprisingly , the committee on the Broadcasting Bill seems to have had particular appeal for the broadcasters and 16 of its sittings were televised ) . |
| 11 | For example , there has been extensive coverage of the controversial actions of a few local councils in London , and of the campaign for black sections in the Labour party . |
| 12 | In the United Kingdom there has been extensive discussion of the ‘ quango ’ phenomenon , but not always in the context of corporatist theory . |
| 13 | ( 1982 ) have used old Ordnance Survey maps to show that there has been extensive reclamation of moorland on the plateau uplands of the North York Moors , Exmoor , Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons . |
| 14 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 15 | Since 1974 there has been increasing evidence of party politics intervening in local elections , with local-authority-wide campaigns being fought on national policy programmes . |
| 16 | In recent years , there has been increasing criticism of the view that professionals provide valuable services to society . |
| 17 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 18 | Recently there has been increasing recognition of the importance of tax operating costs , both administrative costs to the government and compliance costs to taxpayers and third parties . |
| 19 | There has been much criticism of the government 's housing policy , much of it from organisations outside parliament . |
| 20 | There has been much criticism of Morgenthau on the latter score , as we shall point out in a moment . |
| 21 | There has been much criticism of the overlap period , particularly in the afternoon . |
| 22 | Ever since this system was introduced there has been much criticism of the validity of basing the TDR on the profitability of the private sector , especially when used for non-commercial public sector evaluations . |
| 23 | There has been much discussion of the need to increase the speed at which new products are brought to the marketplace and a ‘ rugby team ’ in contrast to a ‘ relay ’ approach to project management has been suggested as a way of making faster progress ( Takeuchi and Nonaka , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | There has been much discussion of attempts to increase labour force " flexibility " and the rise of the " flexible firm " , although it is not always clear if this discussion is based upon descriptions , predictions or prescriptions . |
| 25 | There has been much discussion of recent SNP parliamentary tactics . |
| 26 | To a greater extent than with other mathematically-based research tools there has been much difference of opinion as to its relevance and utility . |
| 27 | Since Sherrington 's classic The Integrative Action of the Nervous System , there has been much talk of ‘ the integrative activity of the nervous system ’ , based upon the convergence of nervous pathways . |
| 28 | There has been much talk of comets , asteroids and exploding supernovae . |
| 29 | In France there has been partial privatization of banking , industrial , and insurance groups . |
| 30 | Where there has been malicious tampering of a product , if this occurs before the time of supply by , for example , an employee of the manufacturer , the latter will be strictly liable . |