Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their brains are delicately tuned packages of miniaturized electronic wizardry , programmed with the elaborate software necessary to decode a world of echoes in real time . |
| 2 | There can be no middle class with even those who are highly paid , they are highly paid members of the working class , they 're not middle class . |
| 3 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 4 | Probably the basic ideas of democracy — the idea of equal political rights for all ( or at least for all men ) , the idea of a government of the poor or of the people , the idea of turning the traditional social hierarchies upside down — have never been entirely lost sight of among the vast submerged majorities of history . |
| 5 | ( If you are only using part of the bean mix at one time , the remainder will keep , covered , for 2–3 days in the refrigerator . ) |
| 6 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 7 | At the four ancient Scottish universities , however , first degrees in art faculties are generally called Master of Arts ( MA ) , although the newer Scottish universities and the CNAA in Scotland follow the English system and award bachelor degrees . |
| 8 | As well as being asked how often they commit illegal acts , respondents are generally asked details of their social characteristics , social class , race and so on , in an attempt to get round the biases in official criminal statistics . |
| 9 | This is quite correct and yet the preferences of green consumers are already impairing sales of poor-world wares like palm oil , coffee and sugar . |
| 10 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 11 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 12 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 13 | I think it 's really quite heartening to see so many aspects that the City Council are already taking notice of , and really are already putting it into their policies to view the environment as something precious , something we 've got to look after , but you 're warning us not to be too complacent are n't you ? |
| 14 | Borrowers with companies financed by the wholesale money markets are already paying rates of about 14.75 per cent . |
| 15 | The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains . |
| 16 | Word of it is beginning to get round and the Copts are already showing signs of growing restive . |
| 17 | The discussion is illustrated by the results of interviews with ten directors of social services , and draws on illustrative material from authorities which are already tackling aspects of the community care reforms . |
| 18 | CRYSTAL PALACE , the club which ordered its non-playing staff to take a 10 per cent drop in salary , are shortly to announce profits of £1 million . |
| 19 | well we 're not having any ginger bread men cos we have n't got any ginger , huh , well we 're just having sort of nothing really |
| 20 | Right now , you 're probably making guesses of your own and , listen , I 'm not giving you any help with those . |
| 21 | They 're now paying rentals of twenty four million pounds a year . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't blame those individuals who have cashed in ’ , says Probyn , ‘ they 're simply taking advantage of the system . |
| 23 | I thought I had that in my introductory letter , the one that says we 're a small company making recordings , we 're currently collecting recordings of erm sort of English as used in everyday situations and we would like to record on your premises if we may . |
| 24 | Peter Tickner , the college 's director of publicity and marketing , said : ‘ We are always seeking ways of getting students involved in the real world they hope to join when they leave college ’ . |
| 25 | I just mean people are always getting hold of the wrong end of the stick . ’ |
| 26 | In most towns , however , the factory system was hardly evident and many urban workers seem to have been still keeping hold of Saint Monday as , almost , an accepted holiday in 1815 . |
| 27 | In some other cultures , there may have been socially validated ways of defining reality and of acting which would enable them to be less socially isolated , and therefore less neurotic because less privatized . |
| 28 | These are usually un-refereed publications of limited circulation , containing only factual data , and where the level of interpretation and intellectual content is small . |
| 29 | Unless a union is negotiating with a monopoly corporation or with companies which are collectively violating standards of decency and justice in their own employment practices , the outcome of such a bargain must of necessity be unjust . |
| 30 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |