Example sentences of "[that] [noun] is of " in BNC.

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1 Other studies suggest that cyclosporin is of therapeutic value in ulcerative colitis , but there have been no controlled trials .
2 The House of Lords in Savage , above , confirmed that recklessness is of the Cunningham variety .
3 Despite one doctor 's comment ‘ I know of no specific evidence to show that aromatherapy is of any real clinical value ’ aromatherapy can indeed be practised on a clinical or down-to-earth scientific level .
4 It is a fact that exercise is of general benefit to people of all ages because it is necessary for the optimum function , structure and preservation of muscles , bones , joints , and the heart .
5 You have to suppose of B that B is of an age to have children .
6 I find it difficult to believe that intervention is of necessity harmful .
7 In the light of Government protestations that safety is of the highest order , the idea that that service should be privatised is brought into focus .
8 This still leaves the problem of which particular deviant group to join , and of how typical that group is of all such groups .
9 Redemption and disavowal are not compatible and the final lines suggest the yet severer knowledge that desire is of its nature the desire for what is lost :
10 Taking purely environmental factors first , we can see that diet is of great importance in both the maintenance of health and in the production of disease .
11 Posters also teach young people how to develop a sense of erm they also make life much more fun more interesting and erm this is great contrast with Harlow and an urban area like Greater London area where as the report by erm in er the report the report on observation in London you know did n't mention the fact that publicity is of course is much more much greater than the London area erm and erm er one thing I see is missing could er er the reason is we found er the film society we ca n't advertise our events very well because of the restrictive bylaws on advertising poster advertising in Harlow I wonder if something could be done about this ?
12 The evidence that theophylline is of benefit in such cases is inconclusive .
13 Research evidence also shows that learning is of two qualitatively different kinds :
14 Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid .
15 This has tended to reinforce dominant assumptions that employment is of lesser importance to young women because they will only get married and have children later and consequently that young women were of lesser importance to the sociologist .
16 This case is rather more difficult : the difficulty derives from the appearance of a unit in the superdiagonal of the spectral matrix of the given matrix A. For simplicity of exposition we assume here that A is of order 4 : extension to larger matrices is obvious .
17 ‘ Then you know that time is of the utmost importance ? ’ he continued .
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