Example sentences of "[adj] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The three-bedroomed cottage was certainly rare in Dorothea 's time , but by the close of Queen Victoria 's reign the majority of those new-built were of this type . |
| 3 | Whether the WGMS formula of three constituency seats or 5% of the list votes is exactly right or whether other figures would be more appropriate is of course debatable . |
| 4 | The range of quality from very good to squalid is of significance , because at one end of the range many authorities view mobile homes as being more or less equivalent to permanent dwellings , while some of the poorer , less well serviced , caravans can not be regarded as permanent homes . |
| 5 | Information about blankets from Early 's of Witney , Witney Mill , Burford Road , Witney , Oxon OX8 5EB . |
| 6 | He who does what is sinful is of the devil , because the devil |
| 7 | One obvious was of demonstrating that this system was a specific historical product was to show that it was not always so , and Marx and Engels turned to history and anthropology to demonstrate this . |
| 8 | The two restaurants within the Majestic are of excellent quality , offering both table d'hote and a la carte . |
| 9 | In many forms of analysis the full range of sizes present is of relevance . |
| 10 | This was reissued in slightly different form at Geneva in 1580 after his death at Lyons in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew , but before this Goudimel had made another and even simpler complete setting , leaning heavily on Bourgeois 's of 1547 , with the tunes usually in the tenor ( Geneva , 1565 ) : |
| 11 | It could also be a useful was of spotting the disease early — when chances of containing it are best . |
| 12 | Although the statistics are hardly firm , it would seem that by the end of the eighteenth century county rates , used mostly for gaols , criminal prosecution , constables and , to a smaller extent , bridge repair , aggregated only around £300,000 , but the levying of the parish rate for the relief of the poor was of much greater import . |
| 13 | Given the fact that many of the old people concerned are of a generation , class and gender that has traditionally been deferential , it is small wonder if they are characteristically timid and grateful in these exchanges ! |
| 14 | Relationships in which the two individuals concerned are of exactly equal status are very unusual . |
| 15 | At Lufton , in room 14 , the plunge-bath has an ambulatory ( with mosaic work ) around an octagonal are of tiles . |
| 16 | The effects of these depletions on the global ozone budget and the possibility of similar massive ozone reductions occurring over the Arctic are of prime interest . |
| 17 | The contrast can not be explained entirely in terms of personalities ; nevertheless the characters of the rulers concerned were of great importance in this connexion . |
| 18 | But the register with which we are presently concerned is of little help ; in the case of a listed company the majority of the shares will probably be registered in the names of nominees . |
| 19 | The most important is of course in Tacitus ' excursus on the Jews in the Histories . |
| 20 | However , their division of information into driving-related and driving-unrelated is of considerable interest in the context of the previous discussion of attention focusing . |
| 21 | The court commented that the situation could have been different if the property concerned was of a very high value , or of an unusual nature , ( eg industrial property ) so as to impose too great a risk upon the surveyor if he accepted liability . |
| 22 | ACTIVE : Navigation commands available are of three main types : |
| 23 | Perhaps the best illustrations available are of the man who fell into a steel tank which had contained radioactive waste . |
| 24 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 25 | If a curve is plotted of the specific volume of a polymer as a function of temperature it will in general be of the form shown in Figure 3.11 . |
| 26 | Looking at the objects available is of little help , as it 's only by trial and error that the problem can be solved . |
| 27 | This might not sound very much , but it should be remembered that the current fractional accuracy is between 10 -13 ; and 10 -14 ; ( between 1 and 0.1 mHz ) and that the predicted accuracy available is of the order of 10 -16 ; ( 1 Hz ) . |
| 28 | The following advice is for those working in a group ( the above is of course applicable also for groups ) : |
| 29 | The problem of maintaining nutritional standards in general is of less concern in the United Kingdom than in developing countries , where malnutrition can result in mental handicap ; this can extend beyond birth and affect the very young children . |
| 30 | In general is of course not constant . |