Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] not of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its high notes are not of good quality . |
| 2 | It is important in any analysis of a crime such as cattle stealing , in which individual cases are not of great significance , to assess the frequency of the offence . |
| 3 | But industrial conflicts are not of this kind . |
| 4 | Public law remedies are not of much use to the citizen who has suffered actual injury ( whether physical or economic ) as opposed to one who has an intangible grievance . |
| 5 | As yet , coronal images are not of such high resolution as the transverse sequences . |
| 6 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 7 | We held out strongly in the EC to have our standards implemented widely throughout the Community and when it was clear that other nations were not of a similar mind , we voted against the directive . |
| 8 | The plastic the French company uses for its interior trimmings is not of high quality and looks brittle and cheap , and in most places it sounds not to be screwed as tightly down as the designers originally intended . |
| 9 | Time and again the complaint from articulate working class women 's groups about husbands was not of ill-treatment or economic neglect , but rather of lack of sympathy and understanding . |
| 10 | The implication of the study was that assisted areas are not of themselves ‘ uneconomic places ’ ; the rate of closure in assisted areas was higher simply because they had attracted investment in expanding products in the 1960s which were at the stage of losing markets twenty years later . |
| 11 | Therefore the details of their origins are not of paramount importance . |
| 12 | But their parents were not of European origin . |
| 13 | And he concluded : ‘ I find that the defendants have failed to satisfy me that the dogs are not of the type known as the pit bull terrier . |
| 14 | And these conventions are not of common currency throughout a speech community . |
| 15 | The lower classes were not of course alone in making a habit of over-indebtedness , nor indeed were the middle classes . |
| 16 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 17 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 18 | As an ensemble the effect is rich and exciting , but the paintings are not of top quality . |
| 19 | The president , convinced that his real problems are not of substance , but of ‘ communication ’ , then hires as his chief communicator a man of the opposite party . |
| 20 | The scope of this section is wide , since there are three reasons why a person may be dealing otherwise than as a consumer : first , because he is a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( a ) ) ; second , because the other party is not a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( b ) ) ; and third , because the goods are not of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption ( see s 12(1) ( c ) ) . |
| 21 | These Dutch cattle were not of the Friesian type but an old type which was devastated by cattle plague in the Netherlands in 1745 . |
| 22 | Of his study visits to pre-war Vienna , his strongest memories were not of virtuosos but of composers conducting , notably Richard Strauss directing his operas and Anton Webern the symphonies of Mahler . |
| 23 | Erm I think that the exercise on ponds is not of very long standing . |
| 24 | In one respect the local political structure in Clermont was relatively simple : although Theuderic mounted a raid on the Auvergne , and although Chramn took up residence in the district , for the most part the civitas was not of great interest to the Merovingian kings . |
| 25 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 26 | The 1966 amendments are not of importance since they are concerned with stalls and vehicles . |
| 27 | These characters are not of sufficient weight to warrant maintaining O. enopla as a separate species . |
| 28 | Marx 's abstractions were not of such an order , rather his abstractions were concrete historical ones . |
| 29 | Social themes are not of major importance in the first part of the exhibition . |
| 30 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |