Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [be] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The S.M.O. was of the opinion that this was the third , not second night , and that for twenty-four hours before he was knocked down the patch of consolidation had started forming in Bill Francis 's lung . |
| 2 | The public and professional opposition to I M Pei 's famous glass pyramids at the Louvre was of a ferocity that would never have been withstood in England . |
| 3 | The memory that would always stay with the Lerskys was of the tiny Lieserl waddling along the platform . |
| 4 | The company 's predicament and that of its 5,500 employees in the UK are of a kind that would respond to sympathetic treatment intelligently applied by the Government — the kind of assistance , in short , given by a previous Tory administration which nationalised Rolls Royce to save it . |
| 5 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 6 | Congressmen know that the stakes in the Gulf are of the highest . |
| 7 | The old Communion plate of Halling was Elizabethan , at least the chalice made in 1569 dated by the hall mark ( M ) , the Paten is of a later date made in 1719 , but given to the church in 1732 . |
| 8 | In Champagne , Patrick Forbes categorically states the gospel as held in Champagne : ‘ Now , it so happened that most of the top layer of chalk found on the Falaises is of a type known as Belemnita quadrata , which is markedly different from the Micraster chalk found on the plain below . |
| 9 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |