Example sentences of "[be] [adv] of the [noun sg] [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 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 3 | Like the basic designs , which are mainly of the maze type , it is very difficult to predict from the punchcard or design what will appear on the fabric . |
| 4 | • A recent change in classification leaves the Atlantic species correctly referred to the genus Anthias , whereas those from elsewhere previously classified as Anthias , are now of the genus Pseudanthias . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Commercial people lagged behind , but they were ahead of the textile workers , the first working-class group to show strong limitation . |
| 7 | The first synthetic assembly glues were therefore of the ureaformaldehyde type which could h set with much weaker catalysts . |
| 8 | The vent is sometimes of the kangaroo pouch ventral type , if not realistic at the nose . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My view was mostly of the aluminium saucepans dangling from a rail above the range . |