Example sentences of "[det] be of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusions from that are of profound consequence . |
| 2 | Some are of low intelligence , most of low educational attainment . |
| 3 | Among the many buildings of the University , some are of particular note . |
| 4 | Fortunately the other discs are available separately , though some are of considerable more interest than others . |
| 5 | During the third millennium BC most axes were made of unalloyed copper and few were of arsenical copper , but by the middle of the third millennium arsenical copper gradually supplanted copper and this , in turn , was replaced by tin bronze and also some leaded tin bronze . |
| 6 | Some were of definite dislike . |
| 7 | Some were of servile status and others free , although with the passage of time more and more secured their freedom ( Ch.4 ) , some might occupy barely enough land to sustain themselves and their families , while others accumulated substantial farms and became themselves employers of labour . |
| 8 | Some were of classical music , one a relaxation tape she used herself , and the rest an assortment belonging to the children . |
| 9 | I have mentioned research , and this is of prime importance in gold prospecting . |
| 10 | This is of major importance . |
| 11 | This is of real interest to me , since I am currently running a study into tourism ( we have convened an expert advisory group ) in order to influence the new ‘ Tourism 2000 ’ strategy being prepared by the Wales Tourist Board . |
| 12 | Intact proinsulin and 32–33 split proinsulin constitute a higher percentage of the total insulin and insulin precursor molecules in the plasma of fasting subjects with non-insulin dependent diabetes but this is of uncertain pathophysiological significance . |
| 13 | All this is of great significance for exploring Leonard 's characteristics , for what was natural to Leonard 's incipient viewpoint and versification now found stimulating and corroborative encouragement . |
| 14 | This is of great advantage to good horse trainers , but a real bane to poor ones . |
| 15 | This is of great interest from the aromatherapy viewpoint because there is no risk of solvent residues in the resulting extraction . |
| 16 | This is of great significance to our understanding of children as writers . |
| 17 | This is of great interest since perfect contestability " turns out to have important efficiency properties . |
| 18 | This is of great importance in providing a basis for the cultivation of cereals and the grazing of animals in an area where opportunities for agriculture are severely restricted . |
| 19 | Minimising — acceptance that the sufferer has a problem and that there are some consequences in the family but refusal to accept that any of this is of great significance or that the family can not cope from within its own resources . |
| 20 | This is of great importance in practice because planning permissions are invariably granted subject to a condition that the permitted development is begun within a stipulated time . |
| 21 | If this is of limited interest , say a knitting wool , you would find it wasteful to go on TV because so many viewers would not be knitters . |
| 22 | Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file . |
| 23 | It is assumed that they will act responsibly , and if there is maladministration or corruption there is the right of appeal to the ombudsman or the courts , though in practice this is of limited use . |
| 24 | This is of limited use in personal injury work where these items can not be recovered separately on a taxation . |
| 25 | In telling such stories , people display the ways in which they think about health and illness , and this is of central interest to this study . |
| 26 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 27 | This is of key theoretical importance in many of Freud 's writings , both in the more sociological works and in many case-histories . |
| 28 | For most applications , this is of low significance , but there is a more involved method of making the tube which brings the wall to a constant 1mm over the same variation of outside diameters , from 6.35 through 7,7.5 and 8mm . |
| 29 | But there is a very urgent sense in which the Caribbean family fails to encourage sufficiently or places too much pressure on their offspring at school ; and there is every reason to surmise that this is of general relevance — not just to sportsmen . |
| 30 | This is of crucial importance , because restrictions on trade between EC countries will not be permitted post-1992 ; hence with the present system of VERs , Japanese cars would be imported into one EC country without a VER and then moved to another EC country with a VER . |