Example sentences of "[noun] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The ironic thing is that those clubs are of no possible use to anyone else . |
| 32 | Organic vegetables are of little use if their leaves are yellowing , their vitamins and minerals long departed . |
| 33 | These projects are of considerable interest and lead to a lot of activity work but much of the work is done in groups , and the issues of the individual skills and abilities of children are n't addressed much at all . |
| 34 | Innovation projects are of an interdisciplinary nature and require co-operation between people with various talents . |
| 35 | The bikes are of a high standard touring bike — some without gears , some with three hub gears , and usually backpedal brakes . |
| 36 | These three cases are of the best , and none of them is particularly convincing . |
| 37 | But while some of these cases are of this simple kind , others are more directly involved with modern market conditions , whether as a form of investment or as a form of prestige advertising . |
| 38 | Instances to have appeared in court cases are of accountants establishing net asset value and sales figures , in the examples in 4.2.3 , and of accountants evaluating loan portfolios , cited at 4.4 . |
| 39 | Many of the matters which are discussed within this framework are of the greatest importance for social anthropology . |
| 40 | It is recognised that our scientific and horticultural activities are of interest to two separate potential audiences , and the packs need to be tailored accordingly . |
| 41 | The latest Ordnance Survey maps are of great value and , when related to those of earlier editions , tithe apportionment , commutation and estate maps of past centuries assist in the unravelling of the development of tenurial holdings , field boundaries , land usage , road layouts , the development of town and city centres , the linking of suburbs and all manner of things covered , in later years , by the umbrella term ‘ town and country planning ’ . |
| 42 | The results from the simple syntactic processor are of little use to the semantic analysis , being simply a rating of the ‘ goodness ’ of fit of a word given its local syntactic environment . |
| 43 | On the whole , Acts , despite their legal precision , are fairly loose guides when it comes actually to setting up the services they authorize , and the decisions made by the administrators of services at central or local level are of great importance in shaping the provision . |
| 44 | Movements of base level are of the utmost importance in understanding landforms in most parts of the world , for the earth 's surface is in an unstable period of its history . |
| 45 | In a world in which , for the most part , neighbourhood and class are largely coincident , the two definitions are of course at war with another . |
| 46 | The insights of Bohm are of primary importance to the comprehension of life energy force , both from the Vedic insights and much of the information that proceeds from this point . |
| 47 | And in any case , the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help , or interest , to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 48 | And the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 49 | And the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 50 | These are true paradoxes , and morphine metabolites are of no importance . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The forms are of the Letter Rogatory itself , which follows the functional layout of the Hague ‘ Request ’ rather than the formal , almost supplicatory , style of a traditional letter rogatory ; a statement of Essential Information for the Addressee , corresponding to the Hague ‘ Summary of the Document to be Served ’ ; and a Certificate of execution or non-execution again on the model of the corresponding Hague document . |
| 53 | Among other Pterygota , apterous forms are of more casual occurrence , and often confined to a single sex or species . |
| 54 | The teeth are of extremely vital importance to the dog . |
| 55 | But the books a writer fails to write in his adolescence are of a different nature from the books he fails to write once he has announced his profession . |
| 56 | Just as speeches by ministers made in association with the passage of an Act of Parliament are of little or no interest to a judge when he comes to interpret the law , so it is highly unlikely , though the matter has yet fully to be put to the test , that the Court of Justice will take much notice of intergovernmental pronouncements or agreements . |
| 57 | The visible signs are of two main sorts . |
| 58 | All the signs are of threat — missing teeth , scars showing through hair cropped army-short — but there is no aggression . |
| 59 | It therefore lacks the precise single end point of studies of survival after infarction but for the patient who survives an acute coronary attack questions such as whether he will be able to return to work and earn his living , to lead an active family life and to enjoy his leisure pursuits are of the greatest importance . |
| 60 | While clearly not of the same artistic merit as Rubens 's earlier cycle on the life of Marie de Medicis , now in the Louvre , the present canvases are of considerable historical and symbolic significance to the history of the Medici and of Florence . |