Example sentences of "['s] [noun] was of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday 's play was of a high standard with two semi finals going to extra time , then penalties . |
| 2 | But Elizabeth 's presence had been chilling ; Mary 's presence was of a different quality . |
| 3 | Children 's shit was of no use to anyone . |
| 4 | Nelson 's experience was of an organisation that had its regular human share of good soldiers , time-servers , wasters , whiners , climbers , saints , piss-heads and heroes ; and when the pressure was on , probably more of the latter than it was fair to expect . |
| 5 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 6 | Walker , a former employee of the ARC , said the council 's research was of a high standard but said ‘ as a ratepayer one would be worried that such standards of excellence would be properly managed by the ARC . ’ |
| 7 | For Eliot , Frazer 's work was of an importance paralleling the psychology of ‘ the complimentary [ sic ] work of Freud — throwing its light on the obscurities of the soul from a different angle ’ . |
| 8 | A report released on Aug. 2 by a UN team assigned to assess damage resulting from the 1980-88 war with Iraq [ see p. 38309 ] found that " the damage inflicted on the country 's infrastructure was of a magnitude and nature that will require several years of repair or reconstruction " . |
| 9 | Vial was buried ( at the expense of the College , as a mark of respect ) in the chapel in the Savoy — Vial 's wife was of the Lutheran faith . |
| 10 | Marx 's vision was of a world re-made to suit man ; he demanded the ‘ subjection of nature 's forces to man , machinery , [ the ] application of chemistry to industry and agriculture , steam navigation , railways , electric telegraphs , clearing of whole continents for cultivation , canalization of rivers , whole populations conjured out of the ground … ’ |
| 11 | Gregory VII 's vision was of a society where the pope controlled the emperor , the clergy and the laity . |
| 12 | Anca Petrescu 's model was of a palace which would stand at the heart of a new city . |
| 13 | Or you could hover angel-like behind your detective and write , " He saw that Dr Demulch 's moustache was of a deep , homogenous brown colour . " |
| 14 | In contrast to his partner 's thud and blunder , Lineker 's finishing was of the highest order . |
| 15 | Sir Benjamin Brodie , in an obituary address to the Royal Medicochirurgical Society ( of which Coleman had been a member ) said he though Coleman 's intellect was of a high order , and even gave indications of genius . |
| 16 | It did not apply to sexual intercourse under certain circumstances , as where the husband 's conduct was of a particularly outrageous nature . |
| 17 | A New Zealand court held that an undertaking by the government not to introduce legislation regarding the advertising of cigarettes was incapable of being consideration for a promise by a tobacco company because the government 's promise was of no value : it can not fetter the legislature : Rothmans of Pall Mall ( NZ ) Ltd. v. Attorney General [ 1991 ] N.Z.L.R. 323 . |
| 18 | Harry had largely forgotten the woman as soon as he had concluded that her complaint about Morpurgo smiling on the day of Clare Mallender 's death was of no significance . |
| 19 | The officers ' overcoat was of an Ulster pattern in dark blue cloth , with a deep collar , and two side pockets just below the hips . |
| 20 | There was no hurry and for a first book something unified was essential : a couple of years ' delay was of no importance . |
| 21 | Going ashore ourselves , we soon realized that the girls ' magic was of a very straightforward kind . |