Example sentences of "is of some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , since the subject is of some general importance in Hong Kong the Board was invited to express an opinion upon it . |
| 2 | The impression given is of some sticky , viscous , unpleasant material which has to do with the satisfaction of obscure and uncontrollable personal needs . |
| 3 | The Methodist chapel , 1861 , along with other buildings in the village , is of some architectural interest . |
| 4 | The ratio of the proportions of lavas and pyroclastic rocks in any area is of some intrinsic interest , but the total rate at which new pyroclastic rocks and lavas are erupted at destructive plate margins is of more fundamental significance . |
| 5 | This failure of latent inhibition to transfer from one context to another is of some theoretical significance , being uniquely predicted by Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) theory ( see below , p. 81 ) , and it has subsequently been sought and found in a variety of other training procedures ( e.g. taste aversion , Hall and Channell ( 1986 ) ; conditioned suppression , Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , Lovibond , Preston , and Mackintosh ( 1984 ) , Swartzentruber and Bouton ( 1986 ) ) . |
| 6 | The second group of experiments examine how face recognition is affected by the context in which a face is presented , and allow a comparison with contextual effects observed in studies of word recognition , a comparison which is of some theoretical interest . |
| 7 | Exactly how the controlling group agrees on common interests and actions is not specified , though the implication is of some quasi-conspiratorial corporatist process . |