Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [am/are] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most peasant communities agricultural operations are of considerable communal significance , and this is likely to be particularly true of wet-rice agriculture where irrigation is the key to survival . |
| 2 | If these changes in family structure and parental roles are of recent origin , current political dimensions of child care policy , which have rarely been more prominent than today , surely have a longer history . |
| 3 | Many Scots words are of French origin , which is bonnie , and an elite guard of the French Monarchy was formed from Scots who journeyed to France as mercenaries . |
| 4 | Finally , it is misleading to suggest that these relationships between government and the various private sectors are of no concern to the local housing authorities . |
| 5 | Spanish rugs are of good quality and very expensive . |
| 6 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 7 | Baker & Devaney ( 1981 ) consider O. rosea to be a species of Ophioprium because the oral papillae are of two sizes which are located on different parts of the jaw and the tentacle pores are large armed with large tentacle scales . |
| 8 | In such research , exact statistics of public attitudes are of small importance . |
| 9 | Now some relationships are of just this kind . |
| 10 | For example , a general election for the House of Commons must be held at least every 5 years but only certain people have access to the vote and not all votes for different parties are of equal power in the absence of proportional representation making for a close correspondence between votes cast and seats won ; the House of Lords ( once a very powerful state institution ) can now only delay bills passed by the House of Commons ; the Prime Minister " must " come from the Commons ; and it is " expected " that a government will resign and call a general election if it is defeated in a vote of confidence on the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Destinations contains a marked increase in text over the two previous Streamline English coursebooks and some units are of two pages , reflecting students ' developing proficiency in the language . |
| 12 | … as you can not reason concerning colours if you have no natural sight — because all the ideas received by your senses are of a different kind … so you can not reason concerning spiritual things if you have no spiritual sight , because all your ideas received by your outward senses are of a different kind … |
| 13 | As these broader functions are of importance in a theory of language change , I shall discuss them briefly here . |
| 14 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |
| 15 | Some judges are of the opinion that there must be an express or implied agreement between the parties before the defence can operate . |
| 16 | Critics of Townsend argue that this is a spurious claim inasmuch as it depends on Townsend making very dubious judgements about what the social needs are of which people might be ‘ deprived ’ . |
| 17 | South Mountains granodiorite is of normal polarity , whereas the Telegraph Pass granite , microdiorite and felsic dykes are of both normal and reverse polarity ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 18 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |
| 19 | As the Committee emphasised , however , the acoustic problems are of long standing and can not be attributed to television . |
| 20 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
| 21 | The operation of the offline system is designed on the assumption that any media used to retain offline files are of the nature of ‘ write-once ’ media . |
| 22 | Interestingly , some names are of a relatively late date : Elston is ‘ Elias ’ ( Giffard 's ) tun' and Rollestone is ‘ Rolf 's tun ’ , both twelfth-century names . |
| 23 | Although no meaning relation can be said to be totally without significance , by no means all conceivable relations are of equal general semantic interest . |
| 24 | include FINGER , for ‘ telephone'-type enquiries , i.e. finding the e-mail address for the person or institution you want ; GOPHER , a system of linked menus to help find resources anywhere in the Internet ; ARCHIE , which allows searching indexes to remote computers to find out which of their searchable files are of interest to you ; WAIS , for searching remote databases ; and WWW ( World-Wide-Web ) , which is similar but which uses an extremely user-friendly full screen with hypertext features . |
| 25 | Implied covenants are of little significance with regard to business tenancies , since business leases are usually comprehensive and expressly deal with many points which would otherwise be implied . |
| 26 | It is not just that , as it happens , some sentences are of this special sort . |
| 27 | As we shall see , most of the writing of Marx concerning primitive societies are of the historical type and argue that these societies are class societies . |
| 28 | Two further points are of importance in going about the budgeting process . |
| 29 | The most important change in the pattern of use of peptic ulcer drugs ( especially H 2 -receptor blockers ) is probably that the drugs are increasingly being used to treat non-ulcer dyspepsia and other unspecific gastrointestinal discomfort for which H 2 -receptor blockers are of little value . |
| 30 | If published claims are of any real importance others will want to repeat , verify , contradict , or confirm them . |