Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [be] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Until about five years ago most boats in general club use were of this sort .
2 On the drive to Pelham Woods Rachel realised just how short the concentration span was of some members of the group .
3 Consequently , until 1935 the labour movement is of more interest when studied in its extra-parliamentary role , which centred largely around the issue of unemployment .
4 In the section on specific speech systems , we shall see under what conditions the speech search problem is of this type .
5 The East African Rift System is of this type and its interpretation as an incipient site of plate rupture is further supported by its continuity with the divergent plate boundaries of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden .
6 This means that expert determination is of little use in cases where international enforcement is required , as experts ' decisions can not be enforced like arbitration awards under the 1958 New York Convention or like judgments of courts of European Community countries under the 1968 Brussels Convention .
7 A yearly body clock is of most significance in the tropics , where there are few seasonal indicators to alert animals and plants to the passing of the year .
8 Its opening shot is of some character walking , walking across a featureless landscape .
9 The results of a normal co-ordinate analysis are of several kinds .
10 In assessing the relative efficiency of alternative forms of hierarchy , the extent to which they economize on bounded rationality and control opportunism is of some importance .
11 Road , air , and even river transport were of little significance by comparison with the railways .
12 Georgia had long provided a cadre for the Social Democratic movement , and the Tiflis Soviet was of more substance than many in the region .
13 Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution .
14 They found that neither the new port at Gdynia nor Free City status was of much use to them .
15 Bankers are generally in a position to make specific conditions for providing finance and so have little need for the audit , abbreviated accounts filed 10 months after the year end are of little value to trade suppliers and customers , and the Revenue 's reliance on audited accounts is ‘ largely illusory ’ , the Institute says .
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