Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once such a formulation is proposed then it can of course be applied to other phenomena ( other than those originally used ) and these are explained as additional instances of the abstractions that have been established . |
| 2 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 3 | The provision of specialized academic courses for students , and the take-up of such courses by students , need not of course be justified in instrumental terms at all . |
| 4 | The terms of the contract between the auctioneer and the vendor can of course be varied by contrary agreement ( i. e. usually by the printed auction conditions ) . |
| 5 | Such a play on emotions could of course be depicted in different ways . |
| 6 | It may of course be used in other applications requiring high levels of compression , possibly using conventional hard discs or other magnetic media , but currently it remains most significant in relation to CD-ROM systems . |
| 7 | Representations of system-sentences may of course be used in metalinguistic discussion of the structure and functions of language : and it is such representations that are customarily cited in grammatical descriptions of particular languages . |
| 8 | Hedging instruments such as swaps , options and financial futures can of course be used by financial institutions to limit risk , but these also contain ( often unknown and unlimited ) risks of their own — witness the losses of Midland Bank in its interest rate risk hedging in 1990 . |
| 9 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 10 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |