Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winstanley set to work with a fantastic design , eighty feet high , the lower part to be of stonework covered with metal , the upper part of wood . |
| 2 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 3 | Potential hardrock sources , associated with basic igneous rocks , do not have sufficiently high concentrations to be of commercial interest at present . |
| 4 | We expect this exhibition to be of particular interest to sports administrators and physiotherapists . |
| 5 | Just because you can do something well does not mean that you are not brainy but when you show your academic prowess along practical lines you are not considered by this government to be of the same worth as someone who can recall knowledge on one day . |
| 6 | How true do you consider this statement to be of Mark Antony ? |
| 7 | Excavation beneath this mosaic has shown the mortar beneath the central -roundel to be of a different character to that used elsewhere in the pavement ( Goodburn pers. comm. ) : the overall picture , therefore , suggests two workmen , or ( less probably given the remarkable variety of the meander ) one workman using " acquired " sections of prefabricated mosaic . |
| 8 | Although Decimax 's current ad shows these switches to be of the keypad variety , our unit used membrane types ; each push of the switch on the plus or minus end gives a corresponding level change ( indicated by the LEDs ) on that particular frequency . |
| 9 | It is true also that with respect to free trade in some of the more intractable areas ( which happen also in many cases to be of greatest interest to Britain ) some progress has been made . |
| 10 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 11 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 12 | Clanricarde published long statements in which he denied the allegations and explained that he had become involved with the Hancock family 's legal arrangements purely out of a good-natured wish to be of assistance . |
| 13 | Because the authors perceive oral communication to be of great significance in business , they further recommend that : |
| 14 | By the time the children , taught solely lipreading and speech , were 5 or 6 years old there was a certain inadequacy in the levels of communication they could reach compared by a quotation in one book to be of a level ‘ scarcely above the signals we use to our pets ’ . |
| 15 | For one thing , the 1988 Act specifically states that it is not necessary for every act of collective worship to be of a broadly Christian character providing that most of such acts are . |
| 16 | More generally , therefore , an employee 's initial idea may be several steps ahead of the present state-of-the-art and yet be too far removed from practical and profitable application to be of immediate benefit . |
| 17 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 18 | He still managed to get up the stairs in the pavilion to help launch Berkshire 's new sponsorship , but then perhaps he thought that the name of the sponsors — the Head Partnership — was far enough removed from his own problems to be of no concern . |
| 19 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 20 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 21 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 22 | For this new pill to be of real help , we need a change in the law , making it easier to get abortions . |
| 23 | Or ( another possibility ) , one may judge one theme in scripture to be an organizing focus ( first stage ) , and then ( second stage ) bring that criterion to scripture , judging other themes to be of lesser importance or frankly wanting . |
| 24 | Here is a man , to anticipate terms we shall find in the next two chapters to be of lasting significance in respect of Chaucer 's use of the fabliau , who can indeed find " " Goddes foyson " " in his wife 's " " queynte " " without enquiring further . |
| 25 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 26 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the draft guidance issued by his Department does not require local authorities to be of any particular size to deliver an effective and efficient service ? |
| 27 | The following possibilities of choral orchestration are limited to the most-used textures ; traditional forms such as fugato , fugue , and canon are omitted , being too closely identified stylistically with past epochs to be of effective use today ( though some mention of them will be made later ) . |
| 28 | My dealer lacks sufficient knowledge to be of any help . |
| 29 | ‘ Tell me , my lady — is it mere courtesy that makes the bells ring , that makes moonlight of a sudden more desirable than sunlight and makes one yearn for this Twelfth Night to be of the past ? |
| 30 | Ostensibly asexual lineages of fish and salamanders have been shown by analysis of their mitochondrial DNA to be of some antiquity ( 4–5 million and 100,000 years , respectively ) . |