Example sentences of "are a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if union fees are a proportion of income , then stable . |
| 2 | Alas , they are a fruit of yesteryear . ’ |
| 3 | Such maladaptive assumptions are a feature of depression itself , of course , and may not be present in the individual when he is not depressed . |
| 4 | Tests of policy neutrality exploiting regime-switching for identification are a feature of Bean ( 1984 ) and Attfield and Duck(1986) . |
| 5 | Party politics are a feature of life in local authorities and as an officer it is essential that you are able to provide objective and impartial advice . |
| 6 | Long-term use of corticosteroids for diseases such as asthma or rheumatoid arthritis can make people more susceptible , and Candida infections in the mouth and throat are a feature of AIDS . |
| 7 | Stars are a feature of magazine launch |
| 8 | If they are as divorced from experience as they seem , the only explanations for their regular occurrence in a variety of people must be either , following Jung , that these are archetypal dreams with some allegorical significance , or that they represent an attempt to make sense out of experiences really occurring during dreaming sleep — an attempt to make a coherent story out of some pattern of the highly active discharges from the hindbrain which are a feature of REM sleep . |
| 9 | It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life . |
| 10 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 11 | If nothing else , the Christmas editions of NME , Sounds , and Melody Maker are a barometer of hip opinion , although not so revealing as the readers ' polls which follow a couple of months later . |
| 12 | In spite of a recent tendency to produce guides which are a mixture of service orientation and stock orientation , the usual formula of the subject guide is a lengthy list of references , infrequently annotated ( even descriptively ) , and rarely indexed . |
| 13 | He argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many artists adopted versions of the Aristotelian theory which asserted that colours are a mixture of black and white in different proportions . |
| 14 | Our feelings for Iago are a mixture of loathing and respect , or fear , at the resource of his deceptions , for there seem to be no limits to his skill . |
| 15 | The beaches are a mixture of sand and shingle , and the sea is very blue . |
| 16 | Many modern carbonate sediments are a mixture of aragonite and high Mg calcite , minerals which are theoretically unstable at surface temperatures and pressures . |
| 17 | Like the other intakes they are a mixture of schoolboy entrants , overseas cadets and ex-soldiers with varying degrees of experience and proficiency in the ranks . |
| 18 | I said , ‘ The novels are a mixture of fact and fiction . |
| 19 | Data on morbidity were reported in a variety of ways , and the results in table III are a mixture of prevalence , incidence , and episode duration ( measles studies ) . |
| 20 | In this , the double stops are a mixture of chord tones ( from A7 — A , C♯ , E , G ) , extensions to the chord ( ♭3 , 6th , 4th etc. ) and chromatically approached chord tones . |
| 21 | This is because the subjects taught really fall into three types , namely , appropriate parts of basic disciplines taught on a theoretical basis , e.g. economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics ; essentially practical , procedural subjects such as accounting , and problem areas which are a mixture of theory , practice and problem solving , e.g. marketing , policy studies . |
| 22 | Be friendly and try to give the impression that you are a person of integrity who knows his or her own mind , and are not likely to abandon a deal half-way through . |
| 23 | The artists in the index are a cross-section of landscape and genre painters that appeal to solid middlebrow taste and are bought today by the businessmen and professional people of the kind who bought them when they were painted . |
| 24 | This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders . |
| 25 | ( Martial arts are a way of life — skills learnt and practised over a long period , used to tune the mind and body to a state of superb readiness . |
| 26 | On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’ |
| 27 | Surveys are a way of life with an I B M. as they are in many companies today . |
| 28 | NAUGHTY greetings cards are a way of life these days . |
| 29 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 30 | Thus , notes that Public libraries are a type of Library . |