Example sentences of "[det] be of " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is of course an extremely simplistic presentation of the after life but it may illustrate why many people , as they approach the end of their lives , are concerned to ‘ put their affairs in order ’ . |
| 32 | This is of course traumatic in itself and involves an interview with the Registrar which we will discuss in more detail in chapter 11 . |
| 33 | This is of course not always so . |
| 34 | This is of great advantage to good horse trainers , but a real bane to poor ones . |
| 35 | This is of course very useful diagnostically where the teacher does not know the class . |
| 36 | This is of particular importance on coach and motoring holidays . |
| 37 | For Italy or France this is of no particular significance , since the role of their parliaments is not great , but Britain would be depriving itself of its most important political institution . |
| 38 | This group of fish was also fully fledged in the Devonian , and this is of particular significance because the origin of all land vertebrates has been considered as lying within a species of this group . |
| 39 | ‘ I suppose this is of Livesey . |
| 40 | At the present stage of development of US television , on the other hand , the schedules of the majority viewing channels ( and this is of course complicated by the much wider dissemination of cable ) are stripped in a way which concentrates particular genres and subgenres within the same time-slot : the competition is directed quite blatantly at the same demographic group or taste constituency , and , characteristically , for the network viewer , the choice is within genres and subgenres rather between them . |
| 41 | This is of importance since closer follow-up and longer treatment is needed in such cases . |
| 42 | It could be argued that this is of little moment , as only popular texts are involved . |
| 43 | On a macro scale , this is of course how Blacks were and to a large extent are still viewed : as a disruptive , damaging force disturbing the previously calm , stable landscape of cultural superiority . |
| 44 | This is of more value than infrequent formal contact |
| 45 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 46 | This is of great interest from the aromatherapy viewpoint because there is no risk of solvent residues in the resulting extraction . |
| 47 | This is of course the area with which certain members of the library and information profession have sought to become intimately involved , and even to command the heights . |
| 48 | This is of course what architects are supposed to do . |
| 49 | This is of direct importance to the view of health and the function of disease in Homoeopathy . |
| 50 | This is of less importance but may confirm what was already clear or it may help to differentiate between two or more remedies which are equally close . |
| 51 | This is of course directly contrary to the past experience of most British ‘ curriculum managers ’ , certainly at secondary level . |
| 52 | ( This is of course , a local variant of concerns expressed by Johnson ( 1977 ) regarding the welfare state as a whole , and discussed in Chapter 2 , section 2.2 . ) |
| 53 | The painter has given us most interesting information of the types and uses of craft on the different lakes , but this is of secondary importance to his using the water as a well-lit stage to the main theme , the mountains . |
| 54 | This is of course the famous ‘ Principle of falsifiability ’ ( or as Imre Lakatos terms it in his immortal words ‘ sophisticated methodological falsificationism ’ ) . |
| 55 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 56 | Their only movement is that of growth , though this is of the most intricate detail and form , a reflection of each individual species ' subtle pattern matrix . |
| 57 | The male can be left with the female , probably mating her two or three times , but this is of no importance . |
| 58 | No signal can be received outside that range but this is of no consequence . |
| 59 | Alternatively a pair can be maintained and bred in an 18″ or 24″ tank of their own , or make excellent additions to a Discus aquarium as long as this is of the planted rather than the bare type . |
| 60 | For most applications , this is of low significance , but there is a more involved method of making the tube which brings the wall to a constant 1mm over the same variation of outside diameters , from 6.35 through 7,7.5 and 8mm . |