Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transfer function of the low-pass prototype is given by equation ( 12.12 ) and substituting expression ( 12.43 ) for s generates the modified transfer function On the other hand , direct analysis of the network of figure ( 12.4 ) yields or which is of course of the same form . |
| 2 | That is what they like to do with their few acres and it is of some benefit to us . |
| 3 | Both Ellis and Beto were as proud of their success in raising the salary and status of guards as they were of any other achievement . |
| 4 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 5 | This observation is based on the high number of copies that there are of certain fabliaux and the number of variants that there are of others . |
| 6 | The SSPCA freely admits that feeding livestock on the hills runs contrary to the accepted practice in many hill farming areas but it is of the opinion that the time has come when a stand has to be made . |
| 7 | The faculty is particularly keen to ensure that candidates who have not made the ‘ going rate ’ because of disadvantaged or deprived circumstances but who are of good academic potential are given every chance of entry . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it raises yet again the economic and political implications which too frequently take second place to other matters but which are of the greatest importance for West Belfast . |
| 9 | In the world of the eighteenth century almost everything went easier with the patronage of a great man , a fact which is as true of non-governmental posts as it is of those in the service of the crown . |
| 10 | Before dismantling the fence , it is wise to number the three wires as they are of slightly different lengths . |
| 11 | Yet the eight globins , descendants as they are of these remote branchings in distant ancestors , are still all present inside every one of us . |
| 12 | Often , aspiring artists are n't as aware of publishing companies as they are of record companies . |
| 13 | Two phenomena which affect the norma parasitic life cycle of nematodes and which are of considerable biological and epidemiological importance are arrested larval development and the periparturient rise in faecal egg counts . |
| 14 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 15 | Labour , post-Kinnock , is saddled with a fundamentally undemocratic trade union link-up ; an autocratic structure , which , in the absence of the autocrat , sees power pass to the autocrat 's ( unelected ) nominees ; and a policy and decision-making process that is as devoid of inspiration and new ideas as it is of input from the wider constituency of party members and supporters . |
| 16 | ‘ Where 's Oliver ? ’ asked Linda who had grown as tired of hearing Harbury 's troubles as she was of Marilyn Duxbody 's . |
| 17 | For example , there appears to be considerably more mobility between agencies than there is of managers between private firms , so that their interests are less closely linked . |
| 18 | I 'd like to make the observations because I 'm of the opinion that most members came into this chamber this afternoon with their minds completely and utterly made up and there is very little that we can do in this chamber this afternoon to change people 's minds . |
| 19 | Despite its Exmoor origins , the Devon has proved as tolerant of hot climates as it is of cold wet ones and is now reared extensively in Australia , New Zealand , the USA , Brazil and Jamaica . |
| 20 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there is just as much of a chance that you will win through your difficulties as there is of reaching the point of throwing in the towel . |
| 22 | Most designers have an intuitive but unformalised picture in these terms but it is of great utility to produce these pictures in flow diagram form so that any differences of view are revealed and can be reconciled by discussions during the process of agreeing the diagrams . |
| 23 | Sgt Barnes ( Tom Berenger ) leads those who have accepted the brutalities of war as a way of life , while Sgt Elias ( Willem Dafoe ) leads the more liberal faction which is as tolerant of ethnic minorities as it is of drugs . |
| 24 | This observation is based on the high number of copies that there are of certain fabliaux and the number of variants that there are of others . |
| 25 | Julian , although knowing through putting them on his arms that they were of different lengths , said they were ‘ the same ’ . |
| 26 | In all these cases the reciprocity is like-for-like and the message that is encoded in the action is roughly : " We are friends and we are of equal status . " |
| 27 | My friends and I were of the resistance . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom therefore can not argue on the basis of the fact that article 7 can only apply to discrimination between ships if they are of different ‘ nationalities ’ in order to justify differences in treatment between natural or legal persons of different nationalities . |
| 29 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 30 | This is as true of the patrician Tories and the outraged-of- Tunbridge Wells brigade to which The Daily Telegraph under Worsthorne 's editorship was still directing its leaders as it was of The Guardian 's public sector-employed army of veterans from 1968 whose retreat was traced across the pages of MT throughout the 80s . |