Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb mod] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some of the revision work will probably be piecemeal , e.g. correcting definitions to which the editor 's attention had been drawn by other scholars or informants , quite a lot of it would be of the ‘ blanket ’ variety . |
| 2 | Some of the required information may be susceptible to precise description in numerical terms such as body size and strength , but most of it will be of the ‘ awareness ’ kind when the designer recognises broadly that particular kinds of people have particular advantages and limitations . |
| 3 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 4 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 5 | Lexical checking here has the advantage that knowledge about how letters may legally combine by position is represented succinctly , and that any output from it will be of real words . |