Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this it can readily be seen that only 56 institutions are of the size advocated in ‘ Better Schools ’ and yet this 19% caters for nearly half the student population whilst 148 sixth forms ( 52% of the total ) each with less than . |
| 2 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 3 | This usually means that melody benefits if notes are of different durations . |
| 4 | ( It should be noted in passing that the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts are of little relevance here . |
| 5 | The brightest objects are of course the lights themselves , but wide shots also include the darker areas which reduce the average brightness of the scene . |
| 6 | Everyday objects are of course the stock-in-trade of Arman , whose retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum continues until the 26th of this month . |
| 7 | The famous ‘ spider woman ’ of Erddig duly appears on the cover of The Servants ' Hall , but most of the accounts are of the menservants . |
| 8 | Accounts are of two types , capital and revenue . |
| 9 | Accounts are of two types , capital and revenue . |
| 10 | Today , in the time of the Emperor Karl Franz , these states are of two distinct kinds : City States and Provinces . |
| 11 | Investments are of two major types . |
| 12 | Many of these skills are of a traditional nature , but others are either wholly new or refinements of past practices . |
| 13 | Few exercises or investigations are of value unless they reach a clear conclusion and best practice reviews are no exception . |
| 14 | In most peasant communities agricultural operations are of considerable communal significance , and this is likely to be particularly true of wet-rice agriculture where irrigation is the key to survival . |
| 15 | In such research , exact statistics of public attitudes are of small importance . |
| 16 | The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes . |
| 17 | ‘ The ironic thing is that those clubs are of no possible use to anyone else . |
| 18 | Organic vegetables are of little use if their leaves are yellowing , their vitamins and minerals long departed . |
| 19 | These projects are of considerable interest and lead to a lot of activity work but much of the work is done in groups , and the issues of the individual skills and abilities of children are n't addressed much at all . |
| 20 | Innovation projects are of an interdisciplinary nature and require co-operation between people with various talents . |
| 21 | The bikes are of a high standard touring bike — some without gears , some with three hub gears , and usually backpedal brakes . |
| 22 | These three cases are of the best , and none of them is particularly convincing . |
| 23 | But while some of these cases are of this simple kind , others are more directly involved with modern market conditions , whether as a form of investment or as a form of prestige advertising . |
| 24 | Instances to have appeared in court cases are of accountants establishing net asset value and sales figures , in the examples in 4.2.3 , and of accountants evaluating loan portfolios , cited at 4.4 . |
| 25 | It is recognised that our scientific and horticultural activities are of interest to two separate potential audiences , and the packs need to be tailored accordingly . |
| 26 | The latest Ordnance Survey maps are of great value and , when related to those of earlier editions , tithe apportionment , commutation and estate maps of past centuries assist in the unravelling of the development of tenurial holdings , field boundaries , land usage , road layouts , the development of town and city centres , the linking of suburbs and all manner of things covered , in later years , by the umbrella term ‘ town and country planning ’ . |
| 27 | In a world in which , for the most part , neighbourhood and class are largely coincident , the two definitions are of course at war with another . |
| 28 | These are true paradoxes , and morphine metabolites are of no importance . |
| 29 | The forms are of the Letter Rogatory itself , which follows the functional layout of the Hague ‘ Request ’ rather than the formal , almost supplicatory , style of a traditional letter rogatory ; a statement of Essential Information for the Addressee , corresponding to the Hague ‘ Summary of the Document to be Served ’ ; and a Certificate of execution or non-execution again on the model of the corresponding Hague document . |
| 30 | Among other Pterygota , apterous forms are of more casual occurrence , and often confined to a single sex or species . |