Example sentences of "[verb] are of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 2 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
| 3 | Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary . |
| 4 | The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis . |
| 5 | Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types . |
| 6 | Its pleasingness rests purely within the intrinsic aesthetic since the similarities intended are of a purely visual nature . |
| 7 | Notes that you can consult are of great value , but much of the fundamental interpretation of your subjects must be based on an effective memory when notes are not to hand . |
| 8 | All the samples you make are of use to you . |
| 9 | The perceptual distinctions we make are of the very stuff of our existence , and in some way the foundation of all else . |
| 10 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 11 | But size and numbers of fish caught are of little importance at Scourie . |
| 12 | The various modifications which these organs undergo are of considerable taxonomic importance and are dealt with in the chapters devoted to the different orders of insects . |
| 13 | They have to communicate to their public and explain how the services they provide are of value . |
| 14 | However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice . |
| 15 | It welcomes my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's brilliant Budget for its changes in the uniform business rate , which it says are of enormous help to business , a great deal of assistance to growing firms and just what businesses have requested . |
| 16 | You would probably choose to use materials of this kind because the aspects of the culture featured are of relevance to your students . |
| 17 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 18 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |
| 19 | If this sounds like a trite tear-jerker , the writing and acting are of a highly intelligent quality and Joan Knight 's production never becomes mawkish . |
| 20 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 21 | Most of the photographs I receive are of unsaleable objects , with a smattering from the lunatic fringe such as the lady from Virginia who wanted to sell the handcuffs used to detain Charles Manson when he was first arrested . |
| 22 | Stubbs points out , for instance , that many of the confusions for children acquiring literacy arise because these children are not yet familiar with some of the purposes for which writing is used and the conventions through which these purposes are articulated in their culture : ‘ many of its functions are often so specialised and particular ’ that they are ‘ mostly quite beyond children 's experience ’ and ‘ many of the situations which conventionally require writing are of a fairly specialised and restricted kind ’ ( ibid. p. 108 ) . |
| 23 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 24 | ‘ Those that I have seen are of the same basic stock , ’ he said at last . |
| 25 | The proliferation of data and the increasing need for multiple datasets by researchers mean that online catalogues , navigation systems to link different catalogues and software for catalogue searching are of critical importance . |
| 26 | Nature , Sickert insisted , is not going to sit still and wait till you have got what is there — all the most interesting things that happen are of the most momentary description . |
| 27 | Where a product is entirely integrated within the TNC or its captive suppliers ' networks , or where the intermediate components or materials used are of such a specialized nature that there are simply no available suppliers outside the existing TNC network , then backward linkages are literally forbidden by the logic of global production . |
| 28 | Questions about how examination results should be interpreted are of interest in their own right but are also important in studies of school effectiveness and wider debates about how educational institutions should be evaluated and held accountable . |
| 29 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 30 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |