Example sentences of "[noun] that [am/are] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the lower-level sampling units that are of interest . |
| 2 | They will also be expected to submit answer books that are of acceptable standard . |
| 3 | Yet aposematic coloration has not always evolved among kin-grouped prey and we need to identify the variables that are of evolutionary importance . |
| 4 | All agree on the highly derived nature of the teeth , and it is the postcranial adaptations that are of particular interest , for Oreopithecus shares with living hominoids a number of apparent postcranial synapomorphies . |
| 5 | This use of contexts — marking objects that are of interest to some other system — is a frequent usage . |
| 6 | Earnings only build as office experience imparts skills that are of value to the employer . |
| 7 | The exposure draft also incorporates substantial revisions to the IAS , including : disclosure of the profit or loss from ordinary activities and extraordinary items on the face of the income statement ; guidance to assist in the identification of extraordinary items ( outside the ordinary activities of an enterprise and of a non-recurring nature ) ; a requirement to disclose the nature and amount of items of income and expense within profit or loss from ordinary activities that are of such size , nature or incidence that their disclosure is relevant to explain the performance of the enterprise for the period ; and additional disclosures in respect of discontinued operations . |
| 8 | The New Right in choosing to focus on , and criticise , pressure groups , parties , and elected governments as the very stuff of British politics , chooses to ignore other phenomena that are of political significance , such as the power of the secret state that we will be considering in Chapter S. Moreover , although it is a perspective which is critical of things , criticism is restricted to politics , and to democratic politics at that , and there is no attempt to direct critical attention to the functioning of the economic system and to the power which lurks hidden within it . |
| 9 | One of BirdLife 's tasks will be to identify and preserve sites that are of critical importance to bird diversity . |
| 10 | This is to do with finding values , ideas , goals and areas that are of common interest . |
| 11 | Mineral workings have produced earthworks that are of equal , if not greater , magnificence to Offa 's Dyke and the Iron-Age forts . |
| 12 | Try to include some elements that are of a geometric type , such as a circle , diamond and so on . |
| 13 | In analysing the impact of taxation on steady-state and equilibrium paths , there are several effects that are of particular interest : ( 1 ) on the rate of growth in the long run ; ( 2 ) on the level of per capital income and consumption ; ( 3 ) on the distribution of income among factors ; and ( 4 ) on the distribution of income among individuals . |
| 14 | It provides lots of building materials-type stuff of American origin that are of only limited use over here , but since it is meant only to be a very basic application , better suited to a visualisation rather than a concrete architectural drawing ( forgive the pun , by the way ) , this hardly matters . |
| 15 | I may be wrong about that erm but perhaps the minister could address himself specifically to that point and also to the question of pension schemes , perhaps er covered under some other legislation but I think these are matters that are of erm of of of some concern . |
| 16 | Mine takes place in my flat , all over the living-room carpet , with maps spread out like prayer mats and cats lying triumphantly and with great precision on the co-ordinates that are of particular interest . |
| 17 | Characteristics of thesauri that are of wider interest are : |
| 18 | Planting can be undertaken in the same way as described for the conventional pool , but be careful to select only plants that are of modest growth . |
| 19 | One is that academic research should pluck the fruits of the contemporary political agenda and lend credibility to vogue and vague notions that may fleetingly assume a high profile , reify concepts that are of the moment and endow them with the status of real analytical phenomena . |
| 20 | May we learn to recognise those things that are of lasting importance to us . |
| 21 | The issues of Al are fascinating and of enormous social importance , but they are largely over looked in the wallow of ‘ gee-wizz ’ about things that are of no significance . |
| 22 | Nothing can excuse a teacher of history who fails to draw attention to local things that are of historical importance . |
| 23 | There is also work on photorefraction — investigating the properties of certain fibre and structures — and spectroscopy , to help understand better the properties of doped silicate materials and substances like fluorides that are of major interest to developers of solid-state lasers . |
| 24 | Do we really need lots of people sitting around pondering on research topics that are of little benefit to man or beast ? |
| 25 | Rather it is the consequences of these changes that are of significance . |
| 26 | The research investigates the consequences of some specific relaxations of these assumptions that are of practical relevance to economic time series analysis . |
| 27 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 28 | Having eaten and digested its food deriving the necessary nutrients for health , growth and repair , fish , in common with all animals , excrete or eliminate the waste and other byproducts that are of no further use to the body . |
| 29 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 30 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |