Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it demanded an immediate custodial sentence , but as Spencer was of previous good character and had already spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence , he made the community service order . |
| 2 | By 1916 , bereft of most of its heavy guns for service elsewhere , the fortress of Verdun was of little strategic importance to France , still less to Germany . |
| 3 | Gedge does not think the absence of Solowka and Gregory was of real importance . |
| 4 | Lady Lucan and Sandra Rivett were of similar age and build . |
| 5 | Rising as it did , when the nobility and knightly classes in England were of Norman stock , it follows that the language of armory was French , and so it has remained ( in remarkably garbed form with English interpolations ) to the present day . |
| 6 | If the remedies provided in England were of universal application then it is clear that this appeal would not have been before your Lordships . |
| 7 | The Cleer family in Anjou were of knightly status . |
| 8 | I have no doubt that the wishes of a 16- or 17-year-old child or indeed of a younger child who is ‘ Gillick competent ’ are of the greatest importance both legally and clinically , but I do doubt whether Thorpe J. was right to conclude that W. was of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 9 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 10 | One section advanced into eastern Slavonia where the ensuing fighting around Osijek , Vinkovar and Vinkovci was of unprecedented violence . |
| 11 | Antique dealer Roger Woodfin said the vintage Rover was of great sentimental value : |
| 12 | In whatever form it took , the economic health and prosperity of Paris was of fundamental importance to all French governments , as the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 had proved , since both were associated with hard times for the mass of the population . |
| 13 | The Gospels of Matthew and Luke state explicitly that Jesus was of royal blood — a genuine and legitimate king , the lineal descendant of Solomon and David . |
| 14 | The reaction of the DP was of particular significance . |
| 15 | Now the Voigt assumption was of uniform strain in the composite whereas that of Reuss was of uniform stress . |
| 16 | Also like Roman , Borila was of Jewish origin , something which neither of his daughter 's prospective in-laws looked upon favourably . |
| 17 | The Christian base on Cyprus was of immense strategic importance for the crusaders , who now had both a jumping-off point for their armies and a supply base which was virtually impregnable . |
| 18 | Arafat claimed that four people had been killed and 231 injured in the town by Israeli forces " as a result of the erroneous announcement that the driver of the bus carrying Israeli tourists in Egypt was of Palestinian origin and came from Rafah " . |
| 19 | The stiffer penalties announced by Mason were of limited value by themselves . |
| 20 | Simpson was of slight build and ‘ shy and retiring ’ in character . |
| 21 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 22 | Her son , Lord Switham , was still a boy , but the two Misses Switham were of marriageable age , and their mother had cleverly secured a good match for the elder in her very first season . |
| 23 | During the eighteenth century superior local cattle known as Teeswaters ( in the north east of England around Darlington ) and Durhams were of good repute for their conformation and milking ability and were being systematically improved by various notable cattlemen . |
| 24 | Bubiyan and Warba were of great strategic importance since Basra , Iraq 's main port , remained inoperative because of a lack of agreement with Iran over the Shatt al-Arab waterway linking Basra with the Gulf . |
| 25 | The hospice in Cricklewood was of recent design and construction ; from the road it resembled a clutch of igloos against the sheenless tundra of the sky . |
| 26 | John Harris was of great help to me in collecting architectural drawings , and I 've always admired his grasp of that field . |
| 27 | Iran ( Persia ) and Turkey were of great strategic importance to the Iron curtain countries because of their borders with Russia . |
| 28 | As a result , many of the films emerging from Rank were of poor quality . |
| 29 | The door to the pub called The Armitage was of thick wood , lacking a bell or knocker . |
| 30 | Her knowledge of the USA was of great service to the Ministry of Information during World War II . |