Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis . |
| 2 | Its pleasingness rests purely within the intrinsic aesthetic since the similarities intended are of a purely visual nature . |
| 3 | But size and numbers of fish caught are of little importance at Scourie . |
| 4 | The extent to which this should be viewed as a utilitarian calculus of some kind , or whether a more dignitarian approach should be pursued is of considerable importance . |
| 5 | You would probably choose to use materials of this kind because the aspects of the culture featured are of relevance to your students . |
| 6 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 7 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 8 | ‘ Those that I have seen are of the same basic stock , ’ he said at last . |
| 9 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 10 | The University is informed at least 14 days in advance of any meeting or other event at which the speaker or the subject matter to which the meeting or event related is of such a nature that difficulties might be caused for the University in the discharge of its legal responsibility to ensure that freedom of speech within the law is secure for persons using its premises ; |
| 11 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 12 | The final case where the victim was named is of a different order from the others . |
| 13 | So much of what has been written is of the doom and gloom variety . |
| 14 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 15 | The white Makrana marble of which the Taj is built is of a different structure from the Carrara marble of Italy with which we are more familiar . |
| 16 | However , the module to be scanned must reside in your current VMS directory , together with any necessary foreign files if the module to be scanned is of type FOREIGN , otherwise an error will be reported . |
| 17 | How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ? |
| 18 | We 'll be saying is that the first appointment of investigative staff to be made is of a complaint examiner . |
| 19 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 20 | At first she sat in silence , stirring her tea as though to get it thoroughly stirred was of the utmost importance . |
| 21 | He made a sweeping movement with his hand , as if what she 'd said was of no interest . |
| 22 | Movements of over 1,000 birds in a day are noted almost every spring , however , and the largest single movement yet seen was of 12,000 flying east off Beachy Head on 7 April 1969 . |
| 23 | Where a product is entirely integrated within the TNC or its captive suppliers ' networks , or where the intermediate components or materials used are of such a specialized nature that there are simply no available suppliers outside the existing TNC network , then backward linkages are literally forbidden by the logic of global production . |
| 24 | Questions about how examination results should be interpreted are of interest in their own right but are also important in studies of school effectiveness and wider debates about how educational institutions should be evaluated and held accountable . |
| 25 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 26 | The accommodation offered is of a high quality with private facilities , toilet , room telephone , colour television , private car park and evening meals are available on request . |
| 27 | Certainly the simple notion that industrialization altered radically the size of the household can not be correct , since the relatively small change which has actually occurred is of quite recent origin . |
| 28 | This observation indicates that the absorption band within which the excitation occurred is of the metal-to-ligand or the ligand-to-metal charge-transfer type . |
| 29 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 30 | In some areas the surveyors coloured their maps to depict the boundaries of the various rock formations observed , but the geology thus shown was of a very general nature . |