Example sentences of "be [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recreation , tourism and sport are products of the industrial era , and especially the result of increasing leisure time since the Second World War . |
| 2 | There are secrets of the Nizari Ismailis that are never spoken of — never spoken of ! |
| 3 | In a nutshell , ‘ Christian doctrines are accounts of the Christian religious affections set forth in speech ’ . |
| 4 | I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district . |
| 5 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 6 | Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century ‘ citizenship ’ had been part of the civilizing process ; so it was not without reason that T. H. S. Escott , writing in 1897 , described ‘ Social Citizenship ’ as ‘ a Moral growth of Victorian England ’ , probably best exemplified by the Settlement Movement , beginning in the 1880s , with its emphasis on ‘ civic idealism ’ . |
| 7 | Glenrothes College has been part of the general SVQ programme from the start , and , like many piloting centres , we are learning as we go . |
| 8 | But the move may have been part of the general trend by oil companies to reduce drilling commitments as cash flow was squeezed by sluggish oil prices and huge spending programmes in the North Sea . |
| 9 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 10 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 11 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
| 12 | The cohesiveness of the governing coalition was called into question as both Sigua and Kitovani had been part of the Round Table which had had Iosseliani arrested in February 1991 [ see p. 38015 ] . |
| 13 | Then , a New York collector paid a record $1.2 million ( £657,500 ) for ‘ Femme assise en blouse roumaine ’ , a drawing by Henri Matisse that until recently had been part of the private collection of New York dealer William Acquavella . |
| 14 | Among the Library 's most spectacular purchases during the year was a copy of Confessione della fede Christiana di M. Theodoro Beza , Vezelio ( [ Geneva ] , 1560 ) , reliably considered by scholars to have been part of the private library of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 15 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 16 | It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’ |
| 17 | This would not have been part of the usual flight to Los Angeles . |
| 18 | Collection of statistics , such as the housing returns , has always been part of the central department 's work , but the more specific information currently requested that can form part of long-term planning is a relatively recent development . |
| 19 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 20 | Seven of its members had also been part of the previous Labour administration — Thorvald Stoltenberg , Johan Joergen Holst and Gunhold Oeyangen in identical posts , and Kjell Borgen , Finn Kristensen , Oddrun Petersen and Tove Strand Gerhardsen with different portfolios . |
| 21 | The March name has been part of the racing scene for some twenty years , attracting top drivers including Nikki Lauda and James Hunt , and winning three grand prix in the 70s . |
| 22 | Ever since the victory of the Red Army in the Revolution , soldiers have been part of the Chinese people 's sense of themselves . |
| 23 | It was in this community that the closest approximation to a traditional participant observation study was achieved , since the observer had for her entire life been part of the social setting which she was observing . |
| 24 | The room in which they were dining must , he thought , have been part of the original cottage . |
| 25 | Patronage by the Church has been part of the musical world for centuries , and in the past many of the greatest composers have depended upon it for their livelihood . |
| 26 | Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students . |
| 27 | On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] . |
| 28 | She spoke of her with a feeling of pity and horror difficult to understand — until one recollected that ‘ B ’ block , now modernized and comfortable , had been part of the old Workhouse building . |
| 29 | With boundaries go hedges , and some of those still remaining have been part of the farmed landscape since Saxon , or possibly even earlier , times . |
| 30 | A high regard for ivory has been part of the human heritage since the first appearance of modern man . |