Example sentences of "[adj] be a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 2 | The obvious checks to this are a sense of individual identity , a willingness to assume responsibility , a mature morality and a developed sense of integrity . |
| 3 | Added to this are a couple of million pre-cataloguing or inventorial forms . |
| 4 | Following this are a retrospective of Eva Hesse and a view of Carol Seborovski 's work . |
| 5 | Not sauntering but fanatically rooted to their hallowed places at the end of the ‘ Up ’ main platform in most big stations are to be found the train-spotters , living proof of George Orwell 's observation that the English are a nation of collectors , in this case of train numbers . |
| 6 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
| 7 | The estimates of a 1 and a 2 are a source of the substitution and income derivatives in equation ( 12–1 ) , which , when combined with the mean values for H , W and Yin the sample , can give the three elasticities in ( 12–3 ) . |
| 8 | Maastricht is now over ; let this be a test of the new Europe 's resolve . |
| 9 | Should this be a matter of concern ? |
| 10 | Could this be a symptom of a more fundamental and deeper problem ? |
| 11 | Now granted that current account deficits bring downward pressure on a currency , should this be a source of concern for the authorites ? |
| 12 | I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction . |
| 13 | If this were a list of localities where an industrial plant unleashed disaster on the folks next door , that would be bad enough . |
| 14 | Specifically , we are presented with a rather bland , urban or suburban , middle-class model of family living as if this were a model of or for society as a whole . |
| 15 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Only for the statement that Molla Fenari turned over the kadilik of Bursa to his son , Yusuf Bali , as naib , does Husameddin offer any source , this being a signature of Molla Husrev 's on a copy of a originally drawn up in late Jumada II 821/late May-early June 1418 attesting that " it " had been written by " Mawlana Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali b. al-Mawla al-Fenari " . |
| 17 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 18 | This is a celebration of Puccini in trivial mood , a collection of songs written for odd occasions at odd moments through his career . |
| 19 | This is a whole of a mish-mash , I think we ought to go back to what we did in nineteen ninety two , its the twenty ninth of January and to confer the rights of tenants and other occupiers of land to allow or stop fox hunting or any other hunting over land in their care and least trust some people instead of this business of we know best . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a friend of Bheki , ’ said Mr Thabane . |
| 21 | ‘ Mum , this is a friend of mine , Patrick Kelly . |
| 22 | This is a grandaddy of a long distance path which traverses Wales through some stunning and remote mountain country . |
| 23 | This is a description of an industrial disaster seldom experienced in peacetime conditions . |
| 24 | It has been argued that this is a description of a patinated alloy . |
| 25 | This is a description of Mnemba Club , one of the private island paradises featured in CV Travel 's Different World brochure . |
| 26 | This is a total of 23 000 tonnes : in 1978 the tanker Amoco Cadiz deposited nearly 223000 tonnes on the coasts of Brittany . |
| 27 | As well as a means of publicising information this is a document of some importance administratively , since without it the register would be cluttered , to a greater extent than it is , with files of moribund companies abandoned by their members . |
| 28 | Erm , the other important point I think , if by way of introduction , is in paragraph two , and that is , just to make it quite clear that this is a transfer of funding where people previously went to the Department of Social Security and claimed Income Support in order to assist them in accessing services that were provided by the voluntary and private sector . |
| 29 | A sale by a former husband to the former wife of property or his interest therein should incur no inheritance tax liability if at full value , but if a sale takes place at an under value on the basis that a benefit is intended this is a transfer of value for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 30 | This is a percentage of the selling price of these music products . |