Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [noun] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge of the user group is of particular importance and influences the content , layout and indexing of a database . |
| 2 | No , no but th erm erm , the only real difference was that lots and lots of the trolley buses were of the utility type . |
| 3 | The underside of the road bridge was of fiat construction , with about three feet of clearance above normal water level . |
| 4 | Possibly the hatching which caused most interest among some of the keeper staff was of sixteen yellow rat snakes . |
| 5 | of the winter records are of oiled birds . |
| 6 | The location of the tonic syllable is of considerable linguistic importance . |
| 7 | The island is aligned south-west/north-east , and the whole of the north coast is of cliffs with an average height of 100m . |
| 8 | Inside , the columns of the nave arcade are of marble and the capitals , with dosserets above , are typical — acanthus decoration with drilled holes pierced deeply . |
| 9 | Tony Donaldson 's first view of the clinic site was of a curious and ill-assorted hybrid of stone and canvas . |
| 10 | It later occurred to me that almost every one of the board members was of a different nationality . |
| 11 | The actual heights of the nick points are of little significance , because during their recession up various streams they may reach a wide variety of altitudes . |
| 12 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 13 | The burden of the import duty is of course borne by the consumer of the tariff-laden import . |
| 14 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |
| 15 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 16 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 17 | But the claims of the user organizations and of the trade unions were of declining standards and cuts in services ‘ by stealth ’ . |
| 18 | Penalties imposed for breaches of the Forest law were of course designed to fill an empty Treasury . |
| 19 | There seemed little awareness of how the mainstream activities of the housing department are of relevance to social services ' role in enabling independent living . |
| 20 | Well , er first of all , it 's a smaller er Authority , er the er meetings of the Authority area are of course er going to be in public , just as er always , and er I think probably the key er advantage is going to be the new emphasis that we 'll be able to place on buying health care services . |
| 21 | point there because the the environmental er considerations of the District Council are of course those of the Environmental Health Officer and those that is the report which raises considerable er concern about the dust blow problem and the moisture content of the material to be delivered into this tip . |
| 22 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 23 | At this end of Swaledale many of the place names are of pure Norse origin . |
| 24 | Effective management of the design process is of major importance in controlling project costs . |
| 25 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |