Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That case , if it was correct , would make it unnecessary for a lease to be of a certain duration . |
| 2 | Local politics are assumed in advance to be of a pluralist nature , and concerned with issues of consumption . |
| 3 | LIFESPAN currently supports process modelling of modules and by defining a module instance to be of a particular subtype , defined by a process model , you can make different modules behave in different ways . |
| 4 | Another difference from Marxism is the stress Durkheim places on the existence of consensus and the need for order in society ( and for change to be of a peaceful and evolutionary nature ) , where Marxism stresses the centrality of class conflict and the necessity of revolution . |
| 5 | Excavation beneath this mosaic has shown the mortar beneath the central -roundel to be of a different character to that used elsewhere in the pavement ( Goodburn pers. comm. ) : the overall picture , therefore , suggests two workmen , or ( less probably given the remarkable variety of the meander ) one workman using " acquired " sections of prefabricated mosaic . |
| 6 | By the time the children , taught solely lipreading and speech , were 5 or 6 years old there was a certain inadequacy in the levels of communication they could reach compared by a quotation in one book to be of a level ‘ scarcely above the signals we use to our pets ’ . |
| 7 | At a press conference on April 25 , Li Peng said that he believed perestroika to be of a socialist orientation , and " earnestly hoped " that stability would prevail in the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | For one thing , the 1988 Act specifically states that it is not necessary for every act of collective worship to be of a broadly Christian character providing that most of such acts are . |