Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] of the " in BNC.

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1 The length of the ridge is of the same order as the size of the remnant .
2 What is possible already is to detect the chromosomal sex of a fetus either by amniocentesis or , at an earlier stage of development , by sampling of chorionic villi ; and if the fetus is of the unwanted sex , it could be aborted .
3 If he was a zealot , it was in his strict adherence to his Faith ; if he was bigoted , it was in his belief that the kirk was of the people and answerable to no master other than God .
4 However , the measure is of the number of organisms in aerosol at the time of testing and not the dose of organism to which the patient was actually exposed .
5 The grave is of the late sixth century , but the krater was probably made some decades earlier , most likely in Laconia though some argue for a South Italian colony .
6 If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions .
7 Cole continues : That explanation is significant as much for its excusatory tone as for its substance ; and the excuse is of the Pioneers , decision to establish a production arm as a separate entity from the consumer society , a decision pointing production for consumer co-operatives along a road to the industrial co-operative form of organisation , along a road it was not to take .
8 Much of the building is of the thirteenth century and comprises encircling outer and inner curtain walls incorporating over 50 towers .
9 It took Rosemary about a minute to answer the door , but , as all the flats in the building were of the same layout , Leith 's ‘ Ready ? ’ query never got said .
10 Founded in 1269 , most of the building was of the fourteenth century , though it has been extensively restored after damage in the late Middle Ages .
11 The truck was of the usual Brill 21E design with truss rods , but carried an additional pair of wheels under the motor springs at one end with rail brushes .
12 These underlying questions can only be fully studied in a situation where the curriculum is of the type recommended by Cockcroft , and a graduated assessment scheme is in operation .
13 The content of the course is of the highest-quality .
14 Inside , the roof is of the nineteenth century but the fresco painting on the walls is one of the oldest decorative schemes in Germany , dating from c. 1000 .
15 At the Kinlochewe pub , all the talk was of the Countryside Commission 's just published report ‘ The Mountain Areas of Scotland ’ recommending that Wester Ross have National Park status .
16 In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare .
17 At suppertime in the servants ’ hall all the talk was of the coming party .
18 The question always is whether the defamation is of the class itself ( in which case no action arises ) or whether ordinary readers would believe that it reflected directly on the individual plaintiff .
19 Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ?
20 The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years .
21 However , a firm may treat a client or counterparty as a market counterparty by virtue of its status as a member of a listed category only if : ( 1 ) The investment is of the right kind ; this will mean seeking information in advance from overseas persons as to the kinds of investment they regularly deal in and , if necessary , from exchange members as to the kinds of investment dealt in on the exchange ; ( 2 ) Normally , the firm notifies the client or counterparty in writing in advance that it will be treated as a market counterparty ( so that a notification is essential , except as referred to below ) and he has not told the firm that he does not want to be treated as a market counterparty in relation to the investments concerned .
22 But the font is of the twelfth century , so there was a church here then ; and deep in the churchyard to the east of the chancel is a buried wall which is perhaps the east wall of a Saxon church .
23 Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence .
24 equipment , particularly in regard to such matters as route board brackets and the destination boxes on the ends of the car were of the L.C.C .
25 WILLIAMS : The Countess is of the party with your husband in Oxford .
26 A filter that transmits only the most energetic K line and absorbs less energetic X-rays then leaves an almost monochromatic X-ray beam , though the linewidth is of the order of 1–2 eV , and the ‘ line ’ may in fact consist of two or more components .
27 I ca n't believe the review is of the same show I saw .
28 The review was of the Government 's failure under the Treaty of Rome to ensure equal treatment for EC and British nationals who apply for grants to pay the cost of their fees to study in this country .
29 You can not see the bearers until they are right by you so the effect is of the person floating on air as he passes along the heads of the crowd and leans over to shake hands .
30 The Revenue are of the view that a taxpayer 's home ( even if a rented flat ) can be his main residence even if he does not own it .
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