Example sentences of "[pron] be of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite their often middle-class origins , these uprooted opponents of Fidel Castro , who have never gained the support they anticipated would enable them to return in triumph to their native land , find consolation in the arms of the Santeria spirits , which are of partly African origin . |
| 2 | What had hitherto been a sporadic , locally-based protest movement directed against specific wars thus acquired an international dimension of steadily increasing significance and coalesced around these two much broader issues which are of considerably more lasting and widespread concern . |
| 3 | Erm it 'll it 'll be enquiries which are of very general interest , Mm erm which I should think you 're just as much of an expert as anybody else at answering . |
| 4 | Analysis has been limited to manufacturing , but similar trends were occurring in other sectors , and the process of concentration had features which are of more general significance . |
| 5 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 6 | Why do some clouds , especially those which are of only a small height , fail to produce rain ? |
| 7 | It is surmised therefore that such claims generally relate to Bf110s , which were of generally similar appearance . |
| 8 | While it freed him from a form of dependency — his succession to the LDP leadership had been achieved with the faction 's support — it also meant that the future of his premiership would depend on the skill with which he was able to balance the party 's competing factions — including his own — all of which were of roughly equal strength . |
| 9 | The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size . |
| 10 | The other issue , which is of much greater interest , is the nature of the coverage and will be considered in Chapters 3 and 4 . |
| 11 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 12 | The great neo-classicist , Sir John Soane , for example , vehemently opposed the use of a pediment upon a building which was of neither sacred nor great civic importance . |
| 13 | The album 's title is a rather self-conscious reference to her delicate frame of mind , and if you are of more robust taste the cover portrait of a blonde with an impossibly white complexion climbing up the wall will indicate that you should explore no further . |
| 14 | Many of those on board who were of merely ordinary calibre would serve by yielding up their vital force to feed the Emperor 's insatiable soul , so that he could continue to be a watchful beacon and protector . |
| 15 | But her evidence by itself is of very little value . |
| 16 | There were no tourists , and my air of demure solitariness must have been conspicuous , for I attracted the attention of a man whom I then thought of as middle-aged , and who was of distinctly raffish appearance . |
| 17 | So you 're saying , there 's more chance of getting the blue out of out of the second , than there is of just |
| 18 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
| 19 | Before dismantling the fence , it is wise to number the three wires as they are of slightly different lengths . |
| 20 | AS , in thee matches , they both faced the same bowlers on the same pitches , it may be deduced that , as batsmen , they are of roughly equal merit . |
| 21 | Out on the fields , the flocks of golden plover begin to show an increasing number of black-fronted birds as they moult , and the extent of these markings suggest they are of more northerly origin . |
| 22 | They are of more recent origin in statutory planning and , apart from a few basic considerations , tend to vary in their incidence in different districts . |
| 23 | While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance . |
| 24 | Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern . |
| 25 | But they are of very common occurrence . |
| 26 | Certain of the various inert gas isotopes have to be excluded , some because they are of sufficiently low mass to escape in appreciable quantities from the terrestrial planets , others because they are produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes of elements other than inert gases , and others for both reasons . |
| 27 | Although of very traditional design and similar in appearance to Nos. 1–35 , they were of rather more robust construction . |
| 28 | The main drawback of such workings was that by their very nature they were of only limited duration . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , there was a collection of letters written by Martin Beale to his mother ; they were of purely family interest , kept by her out of sentiment I suppose . |
| 30 | The coins themselves spanned the period 14th to 17th centuries and four of them were of quite high denomination for the period they were in circulation ; not the highest value coin available , but nevertheless high . |