Example sentences of "[adj] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusions from that are of profound consequence . |
| 2 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 3 | True , he needs to be able to read a line on a green , or at least confirm the line into the hole , but getting the yardages right are of paramount importance . |
| 4 | But this is precisely the situation used in our telephone work , and the dialogues resulting from this are of a different nature . |
| 5 | Examples of this are of performance related pay |
| 6 | The pressurized water reactor ( PWR ) predominates in most national nuclear power industries with some notable exceptions , including the UK ( some advanced gas-cooled reactors or AGRs but mostly gas-cooled reactors or GCRs ) , Canada ( the Candu type of reactor which uses heavy water as the coolant ) , and the USSR ( half are of the light-water graphite reactor or LWGR type ) . |
| 7 | Some are of low intelligence , most of low educational attainment . |
| 8 | Rimswell was mentioned in the Domesday Book , but there are no really old buildings left , although some are of interest . |
| 9 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 10 | Fortunately the other discs are available separately , though some are of considerable more interest than others . |
| 11 | Recipes are peppered throughout this fascinating historical survey , but while many of the dishes are delicious , Simeti ( an American married to a Sicilian ) admits that some are of more historical than culinary interest . |
| 12 | There are some churches in the area ; some are of hall church pattern , others have an English influence from commercial contacts with seafaring traders . |
| 13 | Among the many buildings of the University , some are of particular note . |
| 14 | Her portraits are largely of summer visitors , but some are of the seafarers who live all year round at Sheringham and have done so for generations . |
| 15 | Before including them in any press pack the question " Will this be of any use to the recipient ? " must be answered in the affirmative . |
| 16 | ‘ Could this be of any use ? ’ |
| 17 | and my Japanese when I was in the States found the leaflet and when I cam back she said would n't this be of interest to you for my own and then she said and what about your project because there will be people there who write and dead dead true . |
| 18 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 19 | This area is the Coulin Forest , bounded by roads that give it detachment from other high ground , its mountains forming a compact group but individually having distinction of character and outline , some being of arresting appearance . |
| 20 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 21 | This represented 6.8 per cent of the population , although 10,000,000 out of the total population of 56,100,000 were of recent foreign origin . |
| 22 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 23 | During the third millennium BC most axes were made of unalloyed copper and few were of arsenical copper , but by the middle of the third millennium arsenical copper gradually supplanted copper and this , in turn , was replaced by tin bronze and also some leaded tin bronze . |
| 24 | Some were of definite dislike . |
| 25 | ( None of the other photographs shared this particular composition , though some were of personalities who could be thought of as ‘ hunky ’ men — Philip Schofield , for instance . ) |
| 26 | Some were of classical music , one a relaxation tape she used herself , and the rest an assortment belonging to the children . |
| 27 | Some were of stone , some of wood . |
| 28 | Some were of servile status and others free , although with the passage of time more and more secured their freedom ( Ch.4 ) , some might occupy barely enough land to sustain themselves and their families , while others accumulated substantial farms and became themselves employers of labour . |
| 29 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 30 | This is of course in our own interests . ’ |