Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] they [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , despite the complications , each of these types of function has a relatively clear central core , and the distinction between them is of importance in several areas of administrative law . |
| 2 | The distinction between them is of considerable importance . |
| 3 | Community policies , and expenditures upon them are of course not perfectly substitutable for alternative national policies . |
| 4 | The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these . |
| 5 | It will be pleasing if the features of this sketch seem intuitively natural , as indeed we would claim , but justification for them is of course to be sought primarily in the observations of Chapters 2 to 10 and the way that these observations fit our assumptions about the bases of adjectival syntax . |
| 6 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 7 | The modern architect makes sure his church and his school are built of less stern stuff , for the landscape around them is of shifting sand . |