Example sentences of "[be] of [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RESEARCH shows that a child 's recall is usually accurate , and errors are of omission rather than commission , Dr Danya Glaser , a consultant child psychiatrist , said . |
| 2 | Testing of pupils has been introduced and is continuing to be improved in the light of experiences of its first year of work in spite of the criticisms , which are of method rather than of reason . |
| 3 | ( The second vote was to be of significance only if a majority expressed a desire for change in the first . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Limited funds prevent attendance at many courses which could be of general rather than specific value ’ … |
| 5 | Retain the books ; they will be of use long after the degree has been awarded . |
| 6 | This surface touches the event horizon at the poles ( ) which is of course exactly where the effect of rotation vanishes . |
| 7 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 8 | ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest . |
| 9 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |
| 10 | According to Mr Abbell , his case is of interest only because of the nature of his clients . |
| 11 | The central theme of hermeneutics , that action is to be understood from within , suggests that causal explanation is of interest only where people ( like physicists ) use causal explanation and that this is a fact about them , not about nature . |
| 12 | I can not delineate it scientifically , and a loose and popular description is of use only when the imagination is to be amused . |
| 13 | This has its merits and has been the practice in Sweden , but it is of value only if the central government departments then restrict themselves purely to planning , thinking and regulating . |
| 14 | A guarantee is of value only if it is honoured . |
| 15 | The first : ‘ quality is conformance to requirements , ’ means that a product or service is of quality only if it meets the customer 's requirements . |
| 16 | Cute , but I 'd say the effect was of unity rather than a two-sided battle . |
| 17 | Nine patients experienced minor leakage , six of whom were over the age of 50 ; such leakage , however , was of mucus only and of minor degree in five of the six patients , and the sole patient who experienced minor faecal leakage was assessed within six months of operation and has in fact improved after longer follow up . |
| 18 | He was aching to tell his friends about the Gooseneck episode , but since it was of human rather than police significance he did n't feel entitled to waste their time during a busy day . |