Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | In which group , or category , of industry are most of the factories on the Treforest industrial estate ? |
| 3 | ‘ This is something all local authorities are expected to undertake but I believe Clackmannan are ahead of the field in this respect . ’ |
| 4 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 5 | When the main wheel is ahead of the c.g. so that the glider is sitting tail-down , a forward movement is needed to raise the tail a little for take-off . |
| 6 | But if the electorate is indeed of a mind that it is ‘ time for a change ’ , then it should consider carefully just what sort of change it would be letting itself in for . |
| 7 | The almost absolute dependence of the small and medium-sized landholders on large-scale capitalist enterprise is illustrated by the case of tea , where the ago-industries possess their own haciendas and the organisation of labour is completely of the wage-earner type . |
| 8 | But their eyes and looks made love for them , and spread happiness around them , and their talk was always of the future they were to spend together . |
| 9 | the biology of the Chesapeake was clearly of an intricacy beyond present comprehension . |
| 10 | Both Beckett and Gould are firmly of the view that Prescott 's vote will be squeezed , although , contrary to predictions , he easily passed the 20 per cent nominations mark . |
| 11 | After careful deliberations on the whole situation the Session are unanimously of the opinion that the only satisfactory solution is to be found in the introduction of instrumental music . " |
| 12 | There was a war on and such emotional family matters were really of no account . |
| 13 | In England , the Criminal Law Revision Committee is unanimously of the view , however , that the present definition of sexual intercourse for the purposes of the law of rape should be retained . |
| 14 | Scotland is ahead of the rest of the UK in providing an accessible modular system of continuing education whereby qualified nurses can undertake planned learning experiences in the form of ‘ modules ’ designed to meet the needs of different clinical specialties , and in more generic form , drawing from major areas of study drawn from moral , legal and political issues related to nursing , nursing practice , technology and science related to nursing . |
| 15 | Cutting is typically of the wrist or forearm , and the cuts are usually multiple . |
| 16 | The IoT Council is firmly of the view that self-regulation of the tax profession is in the best interests of practitioners and the public . |
| 17 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 18 | When counting the number of links between two probes , missing clones are clearly of no relevance . |
| 19 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
| 20 | This type of mortgage is notionally of a term of 99 years and merely requires the borrower to pay the interest at the prevailing rate . |
| 21 | The vent is sometimes of the kangaroo pouch ventral type , if not realistic at the nose . |
| 22 | The equilibrium distribution is therefore of the Pareto type II form ( Atkinson and Harrison , 1978 ) , approaching the standard Pareto distribution for large wealth . |
| 23 | ‘ AJAG is firmly of the view that the original conditions of casual , low-key use by local people should be maintained , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Type sizes are measured in points ; one point is roughly of an inch , and can normally be controlled in at least one point increments . |
| 25 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 26 | The accountants are ahead of the psychologists in developing ideas such as profit centres applicable to small groups or even to individuals . |
| 27 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 28 | The first synthetic assembly glues were therefore of the ureaformaldehyde type which could h set with much weaker catalysts . |
| 29 | It appears that post-primary education is both a cause and a result of economic prosperity but most circumstantial evidence points to primary education being more of a cause than a result in this relationship . |
| 30 | Equally , the solutions to the problems were rarely of the government 's devising . |