Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] of [noun] " 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 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
| 4 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are obviously loads of permutations . |
| 9 | The other two types of charters are basically contracts of affreightment . |
| 10 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |
| 11 | The Crimea had been administratively part of Ukraine since 1954 , before which it had belonged to Russia . |
| 12 | This piece of writing sums up Owen 's feelings of war and his poems , we see , are somewhat warnings of things to come . |
| 13 | As he explains , ‘ Those immediate objects of perception , which according to [ some ] … are only appearances of things , I take to be the real things themselves . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Abilities are only indicators of potential , not predictors of performance . |
| 17 | True , drugs are only 40pc of Zeneca , but they are the fast growth 40pc . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These newly discovered pieces of evidence are only fragments of scales , but they can be identified because they match those from complete skeletons that have been found in later rocks . |
| 20 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 21 | Are only drops of water and even the dead man suddenly |
| 22 | Remember , too , that there are literally scores of cafes in Zurich where you can have a quick and cheap snack . |
| 23 | There are literally scores of opportunities for retired people to make a valuable contribution within their own community . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | The ‘ leafy screens ’ of Birnam Wood are merely sets of plastic riot-shields . |
| 27 | They do not represent additional demand for resources , they are merely transfers of purchasing power from the taxpayer to other sectors of the community . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The main point , however , is not simply that the premisses are largely matters of choice . |