Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
| 2 | The continued marketing of products of dubious provenance , dubious efficacy , and dubious quality could bring discredit to a new approach to stopping smoking that seems to be of great potential benefit . |
| 3 | The paper published photographs , taken by Crowe , from a distance of half a mile , that purported to be of a topless Trevor and a scantily overcoated Yvonne sucking toes on the lawn of Proby 's Thornham Bridge hacienda . |
| 4 | It is only its subsequent accounting reference periods that have to be of 12 months duration beginning immediately after the end of the previous accounting reference period and ending on the accounting reference date . |
| 5 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 6 | At their wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve , 1873 , John took embarrassing matters into his own hands and nominated a Thomas Tiller as his father and claimed to be of full age . |
| 7 | Nationally , what both education and business produce is valued and thought to be of vital importance . |
| 8 | He considered good personal relationships between teacher and taught to be of paramount importance : the core , around which all other aspects of Basil 's teaching philosophy fitted into place . |
| 9 | It is within reach of the stage 's edge and seems to be of medium length , not an elongated canne . |
| 10 | When told to sod off by a man well over six feet tall , about fourteen stones in weight , with a four-iron in his hand , and known to be of uncertain temperament , even the most hardened reporter will do just that . |
| 11 | The compound was tried clinically , and proved to be of considerable benefit to a number of patients , but Swedish physicians were somewhat sceptical . |
| 12 | Meetings were usually held twice a month , and tended to be of an intellectual nature , like art shows , plays , card games , outings and theatre parties . |
| 13 | The Commission refused to characterise the demilitarisation as an international servitude , but held that a territorial arrangement made in the general European public interest and intended to be of long duration , would have this objective effect . |
| 14 | Archbishop Wulfstan of York had done his best under Æthelred to rectify social conditions worsened by ravaging , taxation and famine , and produced for the 1018 meeting of Danes and English at Oxford a text " devised according to many good precedents " and intended to be of " advantage in religious and secular matters " which he later used as a basis for his more extensive legal material in Cnut 's name . |
| 15 | It 's use for tasks such as stylistic analysis was recognised but considered to be of only minor interest since it did not consider the ‘ important ’ questions , such as how humans are able to process language . |
| 16 | Other crustal fragments , while appearing to be of more local origin , have , none the less , experienced significant horizontal displacement and rotation with respect to the plate of which they form a part . |
| 17 | First , as a support for services that have a national or general significance as opposed to being of simply local concern . |