Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be of [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Eton and Winchester , foundations designed to be of national significance and high quality and therefore directly linked with sister foundations at Cambridge and Oxford , were the exceptions . |
2 | In these negotiations , we put forward a series of proposals designed to be of direct benefit to the European citizen . |
3 | The evidence would need to be of positive performance ; that is , pupils taking the tests should have a high chance of success . |
4 | It is very often the intangible and indeterminate savings which provide to be of major significance . |
5 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
6 | Such inferences appear to be of different kinds . |
7 | Specific causes such as tumours , drug toxicity , infection and trauma appear to be of lesser significance as causes of dementia . |
8 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
9 | The two narrative conditions were expected to be of intermediate difficulty with the after-theme condition being easier than the no-theme . |
10 | His father sold off some copyrights in 1969 when , as Wilson 's lawyers now claim , Brian could not be claimed to be of sound mind . |
11 | ‘ People are looking for something different , ’ said Steve , a chiropodist , which seems an ideal profession to be indulging in lots of ballroom dancing , ‘ but it has to be of good quality . ’ |
12 | The actual state of the market is that it 's flooded with property , so we have a case where supply has increased , demand is still at a fairly low level , so we 're having to be very honest with our clients , our vendors , and let them know that the situation is that their property has to be of good value in the market place . |
13 | At the same time , the central office may argue that local offices are too parochial and that central control and the imposition of a uniform provision of service has to be of paramount importance . |
14 | But the vast experience , stability and guidance to young colleagues that Hastings can impart has to be of particular import to Scotland 's 1993 efforts . |
15 | The introduction of education support grants , whereby central government sets aside money for educational topics it deems to be of particular importance . |
16 | The rocks primarily consist of unfossiliferous conglomerates the age of which is not known with certainty , other than being post-Caledonian , but they are considered to be of probable Trias age . |
17 | With the court finely balanced between liberals and conservatives ( the latter possessing a slight but unreliable majority ) the appointment was considered to be of crucial importance as it offered an opportunity to shift the balance decisively to the right . |
18 | The award used to denote hotels considered to be of outstanding merit within their classification . |
19 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
20 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV and Mitsubishi Electric Corp duly announced their agreement to work together on development of Flash memory chips , designing 16M-bit parts using a 0.5 micron CMOS process : the agreement is considered to be of equal value to both companies , so no financial compensation will be made by either ; SGS-Thomson has begun production of 1M Flash memories but no-one is doing 16Ms yet . |
21 | It is related to the development of a resurgent caldera to the south of Snowdon and is considered to be of late stage fumerolic origin as it predates the Caledonian deformation ( Reedman and others , 1985 ) . |
22 | The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy . |
23 | In all six companies the corporate planning department formulated a list of environmental issues which were considered to be of key importance to the company as a whole . |
24 | However , the fact that the issue was raised at all by a US President , and in such an unequivocal manner , was widely considered to be of great significance . |
25 | As the responsibility of the Department of Employment , TVEI represents a determined government effort , practically by-passing the government department that has traditionally exercised responsibility for the schools and the school curriculum , to effect a swift and decisive orientation of the curriculum towards what is considered to be of immediate relevance to the skills and know-how required by a technological society . |
26 | Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that international football was considered to be of paramount importance to the status of Rugby League and that selection for Great Britain must not be devalued . |
27 | Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that international football was considered to be of paramount importance to the status of Rugby League and that selection for Great Britain must not be devalued . |
28 | Many of these buildings are now considered to be of special interest by current standards — particularly where they possess ‘ group value ’ — and are being added to the statutory lists as these are revised . |
29 | But when discovered it was assigned by its excavators to the late-third or early-fourth century ( Britannia VIII ( 1977 ) , 413 ) : a dating subsequently accepted by Neal ( 1981 , no. 63 ) and Swain and Ling ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 168 : where the wall paintings from the same room as the mosaic are considered to be of late-third/early-fourth century date ) . |
30 | His involvement with the drug barons of Colombia was known , but - like his thuggish way with political opponents — considered to be of secondary importance . |