Example sentences of "[conj] [is] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these elements turns up in each of one 's conscious episodes , or is of a kind such that each of one 's conscious episodes contains an instance of the kind . |
| 2 | ‘ ( a ) as of right , from any final judgment of the Court of Appeal where the matter in dispute on the appeal amounts to or is of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards , or where the appeal involves , directly or indirectly , some claim or question to or respecting property or some civil right amounting to or of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards ; and ( b ) at the discretion of the Court of Appeal from any other judgment of that court , whether final or interlocutory , if , in the opinion of that court , the question involved in the appeal is one which by reason of its great general or public importance , or otherwise , ought to be submitted to His Majesty in Council for decision . |
| 3 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 4 | This large and increasing number of old , and very old , people will contain a high proportion of individuals who have either no family setting and connections , or at any rate none that is of practical relevance to their way of life . |
| 5 | Plainly , it is this latter category that is of most interest to readers of this book . |
| 6 | This is often referred to as pekoe , meaning the downy part of the shrub that is of the best quality . |
| 7 | It is the software that is of most interest here since that is where the ‘ intelligence ’ of the facility resides . |
| 8 | However , the emotion that is of the greatest importance from our point of view , in its effect on the domestic horse , is that of anxiety . |
| 9 | But let me return to the question that is of genuine interest , this question we so enjoyed debating when our evenings were not spoilt by chatter from those who lacked any fundamental understanding of the profession ; that is to say , the question ‘ what is a great butler ’ ? |
| 10 | For the same reason , it should be a category that is of substantive interest . |
| 11 | For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used . |
| 12 | These computer workshops have been included to ensure that graduates will have ‘ hands on ’ experience of the accounting and business software that is of increasing importance to the accountancy profession . |
| 13 | Each method has limitations ; it is possible to collect detailed information by means of tests , but if the tests are concerned with some aspect that is of little relevance to the total situation , then the value of the results will be limited . |
| 14 | The difficulties in the design of suitable tests for library use — in obtaining information that is of interest to the user — may well be partly due to the aforementioned confusion of objectives between librarians , academic staff , and students . |
| 15 | It is precisely the actual point of disagreement that is of interest to us when we can get behind the rhetoric . |
| 16 | Vernon , that simple , noisy creature , has hit upon a scheme that is of great service ; he has laid Folkestone cutters all round the coast , which are continually relieved and bring constant notice of everything that stirs . |
| 17 | The basic idea is that you look through the book until you find a picture that is of the type you are going to take , and you then read the accompanying bar code into the camera . |
| 18 | The failures in the Savings and Loans industry are something that is of global significance in terms of public interest . |
| 19 | It is this latter set of words that is of semantic interest , as it is they that ’ seem to contain more meaning ’ [ Bolinger & sears , 1981 ] |
| 20 | At the top , county council second metropolitan councils , that is all metropolitan councils that is of course if you remember , a metropolitan council in the area , in , in the area of the old former Mer Merseyside county council , the metropolitan councils would be Liverpool , Sefton , Wirral , Saint Helens , Southport , now they 're examples of metropolitan er councils . |
| 21 | It is not the designs that are important but their social impact ; and it is not the physical distance between new and old that is of concern , but the social distance . |
| 22 | Your estate that is of course your estate in this context is everything you own . |
| 23 | We might claim , for instance , to have a right to life because we each have an interest in being alive that is of sufficient importance to justify holding others to be under a duty to respect our lives , and the government to be under a corresponding obligation to reinforce that duty by enacting appropriate laws . |
| 24 | The objective of these guidelines is to place the cylinder index on the file cylinder that is of lowest possible activity , in such a position that the majority of head movements away from the index will be short . |
| 25 | In this respect there is a certain similarity — hinted as , incidentally , by Spinoza himself — between substance and attributes ; both substance and its attributes , according to him , are " infinite " — i.e. they are ( unlike discrete things ) not limited by anything external that is of the same nature as themselves . |
| 26 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 27 | 1 The fact that those on the right and in the Establishment have become increasingly critical of the British constitution ( critical that is of party politics , pressure-group politics , parliamentary sovereignty and unlimited democracy itself ) at the same time as they defend the integrity of capitalism and attack socialism , has rather disturbed the orthodoxy as to the close fit and supporting connection between liberal-democracy and capitalism . |
| 28 | If both the frame and substitution items have gliding tones that is of course an added difficulty , but as long as you work with a frame that stays the same , you at least have something constant with which to compare the substitution items . |
| 29 | Another area that is of concern to us is the development of what 's called Patient Focused Hospitals . |
| 30 | The issue that is of most concern to the Labour party is the future of nursing education . |