Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , some of the coffin furniture produced during the 1730s was of a high standard , though the designs were limited , rococo in style , and copied ad nauseam by a multitude of tin-plate manufacturers in London and Birmingham . |
| 2 | The Letter of Aristeas with its determined proclamation of the sacred value of the LXX is of course another striking indication of the degree of independence which the Egyptian Jews reached in their religious life . |
| 3 | Although the statistics are hardly firm , it would seem that by the end of the eighteenth century county rates , used mostly for gaols , criminal prosecution , constables and , to a smaller extent , bridge repair , aggregated only around £300,000 , but the levying of the parish rate for the relief of the poor was of much greater import . |
| 4 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 5 | The employment protection legislation of the 1970s was of no assistance to lesbians and gays . |
| 6 | The windows of the latter are of typical Early English design . |
| 7 | The socks of the twenties were of the turnover top variety — the tops usually being brightly striped . |
| 8 | While all the local authority construction of the 1940s was of very high quality for general needs , the late 1950s saw the first non-traditional units in the form of Wimpey 's point blocks built at Hunters and Murrays Closes in Percy Main . |
| 9 | The result was that , as late as 1953 , 30MW sets were still being ordered , no decisive commitment to the larger sets with more advanced steam conditions had been made , and effectively the majority of the sets planned for the whole of the 1950s were of conservative design . |
| 10 | According to Jackson ‘ the recession of the 1980s was of the government 's own making . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of the happiest are of playing the piano , after I had worked on something for hours , then suddenly it came … it could be the most wonderful thing . |
| 12 | Production shipments of the 68160 are of set for the fourth quarter ; no pricing at yet . |
| 13 | The two restaurants within the Majestic are of excellent quality , offering both table d'hote and a la carte . |
| 14 | The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former . |
| 15 | The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former . |
| 16 | However , looked at from the perspective of the 1980s , it is not at all clear that groups which styled themselves upon Mussolini 's movement in the 1920s were of greater significance than certain more obscure British nationalist organizations of the period , since these provided crucial financial and ideological legacies for later gener-ations of British fascists , most notably anti-semitism . |
| 17 | It is visible especially in France , where the changes introduced by Gribeauval in the 1770s were of revolutionary importance . |
| 18 | The effects of these depletions on the global ozone budget and the possibility of similar massive ozone reductions occurring over the Arctic are of prime interest . |
| 19 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 20 | While the middle single coil on the EG-2 is of regular design , the single coils on the EG-1 are designed especially to keep the noise down , and presumably also to emulate Gibson 's P-90 in picking up more of the vibrating string , thanks to some added width . |