Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discursive practices are rather fields of play , capable of infinite substitutions . |
| 2 | Deltas are fundamentally features of river deposition , not marine deposition , though marine sediments may be incorporated in their fronts and intercalated with river deposits if phases of subsidence alternate with phases of delta building . |
| 3 | Apart from the fuel used directly to power farm equipment and to transport food , processed or unprocessed , to the consumer , the fertilizers and pesticides which are an integral part of modern cultivation methods are overwhelmingly derivatives of oil . |
| 4 | It does not follow , however , that incised meanders are necessarily signs of rejuvenation , as if a stream starts to meander before it attains grade it may incise its own meanders to some extent without being rejuvenated . |
| 5 | There are obviously loads of guitar overdubs on it , but they 've managed to keep it sounding like a record made by a three-piece band . |
| 6 | The other two types of charters are basically contracts of affreightment . |
| 7 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 8 | They are of a completely different sort from purely material things , such as trees and stones , which are only objects of perception , and not themselves perceivers . |
| 9 | Abilities are only indicators of potential , not predictors of performance . |
| 10 | They sometimes put these dramatic claims in the form of semantic theories : some of them said that propositions of law are synonymous with predictions of what judges will do , or are only expressions of emotion and so not really propositions at all . |
| 11 | Are only drops of water and even the dead man suddenly |
| 12 | Of course , most of these assertions are merely matters of opinion , often rather wild opinion , for one ca n't help wondering just how much Messrs Ashdown , Smith and Brown really know about the ‘ other European countries ’ they so blithely summoned to their aid . |
| 13 | In other words , how do you distinguish between those changes in neural activity that reflect the coding of information in the brain and those that are merely signs of activity with no functional significance ? |
| 14 | The ‘ leafy screens ’ of Birnam Wood are merely sets of plastic riot-shields . |
| 15 | They do not represent additional demand for resources , they are merely transfers of purchasing power from the taxpayer to other sectors of the community . |
| 16 | Olsen points out that this sort of imagery is alienating for poets who happen to be women ; I would point out in addition the rather sinister implication that men are somehow masters of language , so that they and not we are entitled to decide her fate . |
| 17 | The former , generally in Latin , are normally grants of land or privileges by kings and others , while writs , also in royal and private usage , were addressed to named individuals in the vernacular . |
| 18 | The main point , however , is not simply that the premisses are largely matters of choice . |
| 19 | And since children are already members of society the nature of their lives , and especially their lives as they grow up and leave school , is a part of the nature of society . |
| 20 | " There are already flashes of independence from the units . " |
| 21 | At first , their signals are just cries of protest . |
| 22 | They 're just bits of flesh , gee whiz |
| 23 | So they 're just examples of attitude gents , which And it 's attitude which causes the problems . |
| 24 | And you 're now Director of South East Arts , having left the Arts Council . |
| 25 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 26 | I mean they 're very sort of vandal easy or whatever . |
| 27 | It should be borne in mind that there are always problems of definition and of classification in compiling figures such as these and also that all the figures for currencies other than the US dollar have had to be converted to dollars and hence depend upon the exchange rate used . |
| 28 | There are always moments of doubt . |
| 29 | This never in fact takes place , in that the fields are always sites of struggle for the stake of more or less autonomization . |
| 30 | There are always accusations of piracy and copy-catting , though they ca n't usually be substantiated . |