Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowe 's disturbingly casual manner out of the ring is of more concern to both his rivals and his supporters . |
| 2 | Such overly anxious and insecure horses are usually found amongst the Thoroughbred population , where speed is of such importance that it predominates over every other desirable characteristic . |
| 3 | But my suffrage is of little value , because this and Fort Augustus are the only garrisons that I ever saw . ’ |
| 4 | There may be other reasons why forward and expected future spot rates may not be equal ( for example , Frenkel and Razin ( 1980 ) show that stochastic prices may result in a divergence between the two , but admit that this effect is of little significance in practice ) . |
| 5 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 6 | Secondly , even if the applicant has not sought the alternative remedy , judicial review may still be allowed if the applicant alleges malice on the part of the decision-maker ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's interest in the action is of such importance that it deserves judicial protection : an example would be personal liberty . |
| 7 | job availability in the south is of little value when inter-regional mobility is difficult . |
| 8 | This means that expert determination is of little use in cases where international enforcement is required , as experts ' decisions can not be enforced like arbitration awards under the 1958 New York Convention or like judgments of courts of European Community countries under the 1968 Brussels Convention . |
| 9 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 10 | The distribution of wealth used for consumption is of less interest to Marxists , though its distribution does give some indication of life style . |
| 11 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 12 | Many whales also spend some considerable time swimming on the surface , where good sight is required but where their sonar is of little use . |
| 13 | But the EXPERTS say the difference is of little consequence . |
| 14 | This distinction is of some importance . |
| 15 | The true love relationship is not of the ordinary world , this meeting is of another world , partly of emotions and partly of the mystical . |
| 16 | As the acid secretory capacity does not change after H pylori eradication , it would seem that the former is the more important determinant factor in the development of gastric metaplasia and the H pylori related inflammatory process is of less importance . |
| 17 | I mean personally , I 'm of the view that it 's better to erm , agree a set of , of proposals for consultation , see what the outcome is of those consultations , er , to see whether or not we stick to what we 're suggesting , to be frank . |
| 18 | Smallholders in sheltered , low areas in the south-East of Britain , may grow a little maize in the vegetable garden ; otherwise the crop is of little interest to them . |
| 19 | The point is of some significance because a duty to balance the interests of present and future members would involve an expansion of the directors ' discretion , in effect , allowing them to justify their actions by reference to the well-being of the enterprise even though they are contrary to the interests of the existing members . |
| 20 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 21 | The point is of some importance : it would seem to follow that the end of the book was a hasty afterthought . |
| 22 | For example , discovering that x per cent of Gibbon 's nouns are concrete , and only y per cent abstract is of little use by itself . |
| 23 | When citing cases , the mere giving of the name is of little use . |
| 24 | The evidence is of several kinds . |
| 25 | The pollutions which escape the field officer 's shroud of privacy are those which are so noticeable that they attract widespread public attention , or those where a complainant is of such status that he may enjoy direct contact with senior staff . |
| 26 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 27 | ( c ) Profit share This is a matter which depends upon agreement with the continuing partners and may , eg where the new recruit is of some seniority , involve reductions in their shares . |
| 28 | The sculpture of St John Nepomuk on the façade is of this date . |
| 29 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 30 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |