Example sentences of "[noun sg] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple endorsements of one or another nostrum are of no service to the teaching of reading ’ . |
| 2 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 3 | The tasks of planning and liaising , and monitoring are of particular relevance here . |
| 4 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 5 | The facts of this case are of such gravity that a sentence of general deterrent is necessary , ’ said the judge . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding the fact that Dirks was found not guilty , the tests laid down in the case are of great significance : a tipper 's liability is contingent upon the purpose of his action ; while a tippee 's liability is limited to those situations where he knows or ought reasonably to know of the insider 's breach of duty . |
| 7 | The 275 acres of pasture are of the best and surround the house on all sides , undulating towards distant hills — and to Dublin airport only half-an-hour away . |
| 8 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such condition-CC |
| 11 | A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 12 | ( c ) The implied obligation of merchantable quality The SGA 1979 and the SGSA 1982 provide that , where goods are sold in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality . |
| 13 | Thus s14(2) of SGA 1979 ( replicated in s10(2) of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss4(3) , 9(3) of SGSA 1982 ) provides : ( 2 ) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such condition ( a ) as regards defects specifically drawn to the buyer 's attention before the contract is made ; or ( b ) if the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made , as regards defects which that examination ought to reveal . |
| 14 | Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 15 | Many of the matters which are discussed within this framework are of the greatest importance for social anthropology . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 21 | And the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Most of the names in this computer are of black people . |
| 26 | The differences studied in the quantitative paradigm are of a particular and limited kind : they are socially , but not linguistically , meaningful . |
| 27 | It is noteworthy that the majority are of plants starting with the letter ‘ A ’ which , as has been explained , proportionately outnumbered the other letters in the Figures . |
| 28 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 29 | The ease of application , fluidity and prompt absorption are of prime importance for such products and the massaging action on the affected area helps to activate the ingredients of the cream and improve circulation . |
| 30 | Standards which do not enable valid and reliable assessment are of little value to end users . |