Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of the total variance such correlations account for is of course small and their importance should be judged accordingly . |
| 2 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 3 | Eton and Winchester , foundations designed to be of national significance and high quality and therefore directly linked with sister foundations at Cambridge and Oxford , were the exceptions . |
| 4 | It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development . |
| 5 | As a staff development activity it is designed to be of both immediate and long-term use in the classroom and school setting , and thus meets an important stipulation for effective in-service work . |
| 6 | The matter has been considered by the services Committee ; the Order Paper is designed to be of greatest use to the House . |
| 7 | In these negotiations , we put forward a series of proposals designed to be of direct benefit to the European citizen . |
| 8 | When people think of giving help or support to those in trouble they nearly always imagine that this help will need to be of an intense and emotional nature . |
| 9 | The evidence would need to be of positive performance ; that is , pupils taking the tests should have a high chance of success . |
| 10 | Can I come back Mr Donson , or will that , and I take it , alright , I understand the point you are making about the long term solution and size , but if the panel were to be persuaded that to be a viable solution the settlement had , in the end , and I 'm not going to define where the end is , almost certainly beyond two thousand and six , that the settlement would need to be of the order of five thousand dwellings . |
| 11 | It is very often the intangible and indeterminate savings which provide to be of major significance . |
| 12 | Furthermore , different religions may need different symbols , and it is only when they are treated as fetishes , or when they become the means whereby one religion claims superiority over another , that they cease to be of value and are fit only to be discarded . |
| 13 | Thus the two causes appear to be of a similar size in the case of body temperature ( Fig. 1.3 , top ) but the internal cause in the case of urinary flow ( Fig. 1.3 , bottom ) is rather smaller , with daytime and night-time values on the constant routine being more similar . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 15 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
| 16 | Specific causes such as tumours , drug toxicity , infection and trauma appear to be of lesser significance as causes of dementia . |
| 17 | Such inferences appear to be of different kinds . |
| 18 | Other possible configurations , which will not , however , be discussed here at any length , are doublets ( exemplified by pairs of opposites — see chapters 9 , 10 and 11 ) , and clusters , which are groupings of lexical items characterised by a lack of structure ( some groups of synonyms appear to be of this nature — see chapter 12 ) . |
| 19 | These appear to be of two types . |
| 20 | British central government must be noted as a context where conflicts often appear to be of an ideological nature and where the representative model is treated as of some importance . |
| 21 | Hence , even though line-printer mapping systems might at first sight appear to be of little value in comparison with plotter-based systems , there are instances when it is convenient or cost-effective to make use of them . |
| 22 | All of these mosaics appear to be of the fourth century , or the very late third , ( Smith favours a date before 300 for the mosaic from Newton St. Loe : Smith 1969 , 101 ; although some doubts have been expressed recently : Smith 1983 , 326 ) . |
| 23 | As at Tockington , the type C arrangement at Halstock is associated with another mosaic which displays a saltire design , ( although it should be noted that the latter appear to be of a finer standard than the former ) . |
| 24 | At Chedworth , however , the simple geometrics of rooms 11 and 14 appear to be of a different quality to those portrayed in Lysons ' engravings of plates 44 and 45 ; although here ( and also at North Leigh : pI . |
| 25 | Other squat , duck-like birds are comparable to those at Barton Farm ; indeed , whereas the animals in these mosaics appear to be of quite different styles , it seems that the draughtsman responsible for the birds at Barton Farm was also responsible for those at Withington . |
| 26 | It is important to differentiate between those mosaics which appear to be of a similar quality and character , as well as of the same , general appearance . |
| 27 | Shop assistants in this period were expected to be of " respectable " appearance and speech . |
| 28 | Fellows , who will be expected to be of PhD status and/or to have an appropriate track record , retain their permanent employment so that their salary position and superannuation arrangements are undisturbed by the secondment . |
| 29 | The two narrative conditions were expected to be of intermediate difficulty with the after-theme condition being easier than the no-theme . |
| 30 | The final stages of formation are expected to be of the nature of an lhb . |