Example sentences of "[be] of [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 2 | Other factors such as the personal and public importance of the event are equally likely to be of significance and it seems inappropriate to regard such memories as providing evidence for a general enhancement of memory related to increased arousal or emotion . |
| 3 | It may not be of safety but it maybe er not the sort of thing that we want . |
| 4 | Kin may still be of importance when it comes to seeking work or accommodation . |
| 5 | The reality of life is of course that it is the bad news man who should be the most prized . |
| 6 | And erm the effect though of holding beach material on one part of the beach is of course that it starves the area which is along the Sussex Channel coast to the east of beach material that it would formerly have received . |
| 7 | To illustrate this with an example , on the objectual interpretation " ( Ex ) x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance is Hades ' is false , because there is no such entity ; but on the substitutional interpretation a replacement of x in " x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades " with " Cerberus " yields a true proposition ; which , if we are talking about Greek mythology , is of course as it should be . |
| 8 | ‘ But Una is of age and it 's she who will decide who she wants to marry . |
| 9 | It is of interest that it would seem to be the case that the Galatians verse , that in Christ ‘ there is neither Jew nor Greek , there is neither slave nor free , there is no ‘ male and female ’ , makes direct reference to Genesis . |
| 10 | What he writes is of interest because it shows his attitude to his illness , and to the importance of relieving the pressures of his illness . |
| 11 | The error response in the Gloucester-Holyhead question is of interest because it is the top band pupils who are most likely to treat the obliquely placed town names as arrows pointing in the directions of the required figures . |
| 12 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 13 | This curious story is of interest because it is rare in classical ( as opposed to hellenistic or Roman ) Greece for an oppressed group to find a leader with the capacity to defy organized city-state forces . |
| 14 | Though not so far observed , this version of the Ikeda instability is of interest because it can be derived by mean field methods , which otherwise preclude chaos . |
| 15 | Although no firm progress was made at this stage much of the evidence is of interest as it deals with the environmental and development pressures resulting from such a link . |
| 16 | An analysis of the age and sex structure of unemployment and its locational distribution is of value because it may throw some light on the reasons for the growth of unemployment and the policy measures which may be most effective . |
| 17 | The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy . |