Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] be of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
| 2 | The continued marketing of products of dubious provenance , dubious efficacy , and dubious quality could bring discredit to a new approach to stopping smoking that seems to be of great potential benefit . |
| 3 | At their wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve , 1873 , John took embarrassing matters into his own hands and nominated a Thomas Tiller as his father and claimed to be of full age . |
| 4 | Nationally , what both education and business produce is valued and thought to be of vital importance . |
| 5 | He considered good personal relationships between teacher and taught to be of paramount importance : the core , around which all other aspects of Basil 's teaching philosophy fitted into place . |
| 6 | It is within reach of the stage 's edge and seems to be of medium length , not an elongated canne . |
| 7 | When told to sod off by a man well over six feet tall , about fourteen stones in weight , with a four-iron in his hand , and known to be of uncertain temperament , even the most hardened reporter will do just that . |
| 8 | The compound was tried clinically , and proved to be of considerable benefit to a number of patients , but Swedish physicians were somewhat sceptical . |
| 9 | The Commission refused to characterise the demilitarisation as an international servitude , but held that a territorial arrangement made in the general European public interest and intended to be of long duration , would have this objective effect . |