Example sentences of "be of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am of course not concerned here with the reliability of the figures themselves but with their use , or rather non-use , by Polybius . |
| 2 | I am of course not speaking of those from the interior it is necessary to be more guarded with them particularly those of the Namoi and Juden ( ? ) parts , which I am now about to visit . |
| 3 | This point was expressed by Lord Herschell in Vagliano as follows : I am of course far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the provisions of the code . |
| 4 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 5 | The collection and computerization of data will form the basis for investigation of six areas of Korean development which are considered to be under-researched by both Koreans and Korean specialists , and which are of relevance both to development policy and to the identification of future potential economic opportunities for Britain in South Korea as well as the future impact of Korea on the world economy . |
| 6 | Odometer readings are of course notoriously unreliable as a guide to the distance travelled by the car . |
| 7 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 8 | Snails ' shells are of course also asymmetrically coiled , so the hermit crab has plainly had to adapt its own anatomy in order to fit into its adopted shelter . |
| 9 | Such benefits are of course also received by households with the highest gross income ( averaging £18,640 in 1983 ) , though to a much smaller extent . |
| 10 | Thus , just as it is dangerous to superimpose standard-based analyses on a present-day vernacular , so it must be at least equally dangerous to do this in dealing with past states , which are of course also divergent . |
| 11 | There are of course also limitations in current screen and power source technology which would make it difficult to display high resolution colour images of any complexity . |
| 12 | Established under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act , these are of course neither national , in the sense of belonging to the nation , nor parks in any very tangible form . |
| 13 | Consumed in small quantities as part of a healthy diet ( once your weight is normal ) , they probably do no harm and their pleasures are of course well known . |
| 14 | Kachins are of course well aware that there are other kinds of people who are not Jinghpaw in this sense , e.g. Burmese , Chinese , Indians , British anthropologists , and , in mythology , all these groups , including the Jinghpaw , are descended from a common original Adam and Eve . |
| 15 | In this account homosexuals are essentially failed men , and the arbiters of what it takes to be a successful male are of course not women but other males . |
| 16 | These suggested guidelines are of course not comprehensive . |
| 17 | Community policies , and expenditures upon them are of course not perfectly substitutable for alternative national policies . |
| 18 | Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV . |
| 19 | The struggle for freedom of expression , and the invention of means to control it , are of course both very old . |
| 20 | We then perform the iteration , omitting the first element of ( 4 ) : unc The numbers produced in this way reproduced exactly those of the last three elements in the columns of Table 1 , as well as the dividing factors ; they are of course exactly the same calculations , but with the matrices associated differently . |
| 21 | With regard to octave combinations , flute or oboe double the violas well at the higher octave , and bassoon at the lower octave , but opportunities of using these are rather rare , as the violas are of course chiefly used to supply inner parts either in the nature of harmonic filling up , or countermelodies in which octave doubling would upset the harmonic scheme . |
| 22 | Christian feminists too are of course deeply conscious of these things . |
| 23 | But he or she still seems to be unencumbered by , for example , the class , gender or ethnic relations which are of course socially constructed . |
| 24 | Similarly , players can be genuinely frightened of their own weapons , which are of course purely ‘ defensive ’ . |
| 25 | Such drastic tactics are of course only justifiable against a violent attack . |
| 26 | Explanations after the facts are of course very useful but the hallmark of a successful research programme is predictions . |
| 27 | These internal hardware additions are of course very machine-dependent , and those available vary considerably from manufacturer to manufacturer . |
| 28 | consumer affairs are of course very important not only in retirement but throughout life . |
| 29 | The absolute binding energies are of course very large , and even if we do a very expensive calculation we should not expect our calculated orbital energies to match them exactly . |
| 30 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |