Example sentences of "be [adj] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |
| 2 | Since in the pizza query the last two words in the name are descriptive of the business , the Mothercare case is well in point and helpful to the reader and his client . |
| 3 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 4 | Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance . |
| 5 | ‘ The society are supportive of the continuation of the local brick-making industry and the employment it provides . |
| 6 | Both Church of Ireland and presbyterian political ethics in the North are supportive of the union and the forces of law and order , whereas the sects have a more flexible respect for state authority . |
| 7 | ‘ This Government , these men , are guilty of the betrayal of Britain . ’ |
| 8 | But at its heart , the message is a simple one ; the people of Israel have turned their backs on God ; they are guilty of the sin of apostasy . |
| 9 | Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism . |
| 10 | Their pleading averts such a complete disaster , and succeeds in focusing God 's punishment on those who are guilty of the rebellion . |
| 11 | Both are guilty of the crime of war … |
| 12 | But by far the most difficult and tiresome task had been that of the telephone girls , who had made scores and scores of transatlantic calls that Tuesday morning , afternoon , and early evening : calls made to one address that led to calls to another address ; calls to one friend that led to another friend or colleague ; from one police department to another ; one State to other States ; calls for one set of records that referred to another set of records that led … ad apparently infinitum . |
| 13 | One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory |
| 14 | One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory |
| 15 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 16 | It is not very easy to judge when you are two-thirds of the way through a turn , so turning round a buoy provides a good reference point . |
| 17 | If findings from Liverpool are representative of the rest of Britain then many unnecessary circumcisions are performed each year at considerable cost to the health service and morbidity for the patients . |
| 18 | The proposals of the six schools selected as the focus for our evaluation are representative of the range of proposals reviewed , and the evaluators are satisfied that the picture which emerges from this sample is true to the general flavour and direction of the Major Project as a whole . |
| 19 | These are representative of the intellectual and intuitive cognitive faculties . |
| 20 | It is also important that the thin sections counted are representative of the sequence studied , thus necessitating preliminary overviews of the thin sections . |
| 21 | The lines of data are of the form ‘ line-number alternative — characters [ destinations ] ’ , and the alternative characters are each of the form ‘ reference-character : confidence ’ . |
| 22 | At the peak of the wave , the open latches are clear of the sinker posts . |
| 23 | This process continues until the chip 's pins are clear of the socket . |
| 24 | I will wait until we are clear of the island , I thought . |
| 25 | To tell him the truth — that she 'd been afraid of the depth of her own feelings — would be far too revealing . |
| 26 | When they were children , she said , the villagers had been afraid of the forest folk . |
| 27 | THE CLASH : ‘ The Story Of The Clash ’ ( Columbia ) now they are top of the chart mountain , the last gang in town flood the place with an avalanche of Westway Rockin' rereleases — out on Monday |
| 28 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 29 | We are top of the League and have to sell . |
| 30 | Almost anything Western has cachet but the crime stories the Russians call krimmies are top of the list . |