Example sentences of "[noun sg] was of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 32 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 33 | His style was of the poet-dandy . |
| 34 | By this time the government was of the opinion that difficulties which arose in relations between clergy and peasants sprang not merely from the economic arrangements on which the livelihood of priests depended , but from the priests ' character . |
| 35 | According to a witness accompanying Constantine 's army at the time , the vision was of the sun god — the deity worshipped by certain cults under the name of Sol Invictus , the ‘ Invincible Sun ’ . |
| 36 | His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them . |
| 37 | It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass . |
| 38 | For example : the traditional notation regarding ‘ on board ’ loading was replaced by a ‘ taking in charge ’ statement ; the traditional prohibition against transhipment was eliminated , because transhipment was of the essence in combined transport ; since the transport commonly originated and finished inland , the terms ‘ place of receipt ’ and ‘ place of delivery ’ were inserted in separate boxes , either replacing the traditional ‘ port of loading ’ and ‘ port of discharge ’ or joining them as additional specifications ; and since often times the name of the vessel was not known or could not be established with certainty at the time of issuance , the box for the vessel 's name was modified to refer to an ‘ intended vessel . ’ |
| 39 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 40 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 41 | Again the test is subjective : did the defendant know that the information was of the type proscribed by the Act ? |
| 42 | The other image was of the person behind him , Jeopardy , with his hair unplaited and his eyes fierce , pacing like a caged animal along the wall . |
| 43 | The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the time of delivery was of the essence of this contract , but that this stipulation was waived by the defendant 's requests for delivery after the due date which would have estopped him had there been delivery within the extended time . |
| 44 | The reactor was of the RBMK type — the same as that which exploded at Chernobyl in 1986 [ see pp. 34460-62 ] . |
| 45 | The reactor was of the RBMK type — the same as the one which exploded at Chernobyl in 1986 . |
| 46 | The largest sale was of the joinery group , Boulton & Paul , for £14.5 million . |
| 47 | The Sheriff was of the opinion that the pursuers ' right to damages arose at once upon the default of the defenders , as every breach gave rise to a claim of damages irrespective of whether it was a breach sufficiently material to justify rescission . |
| 48 | Calvin 's doctrine of election had the consequence that no earthly priesthood could arrogate the authority to determine whether an individual was of the elect . |
| 49 | The ‘ writtenness ’ of the apostolic tradition was of the accidents rather than the substance of the apostolic proclamation concerning Christ . |
| 50 | In two weeks of December the number of male vagrants had risen to 371 , which included 252 ex-soldiers , and the master was of the opinion that the increase was due to the fact that many of the unemployed in London were returning to their own towns through the casual wards . |
| 51 | If the chief officer was of the opinion that the resources available to him were inadequate to prevent the feared disorder , he could take certain steps to have the procession banned altogether . |
| 52 | The total effort required to design and build the system was of the order of fourteen man years . |
| 53 | If he was a zealot , it was in his strict adherence to his Faith ; if he was bigoted , it was in his belief that the kirk was of the people and answerable to no master other than God . |
| 54 | If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions . |
| 55 | The total contract cost of the church conversion and the adjacent new building was of the order of £1.25 million and the work extended over twenty-one months . |
| 56 | He has also developed a style of polished elegance which has become as characteristic of our time as Man Ray 's solarized photography was of the years around 1930 . |
| 57 | Hess thought that the spreading rate at the ocean ridge was of the order of one centimetre per year . |
| 58 | As the transcript of the judgment reveals , the Crown of Appeal was of the view that even if the appellant 's assertion of a right to be informed of the solicitor 's calls had been upheld , it does not follow that in all the circumstances of the case fairness would have required that the confession should have been excluded under section 78 . |
| 59 | I did n't care — time was of the essence and I was eager to get home , sort out the kids and get to my gig . |
| 60 | Riding beside them , he explained that time was of the essence if their father 's instructions in respect of the protectorship were to be carried out . |