Example sentences of "[det] was of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 2 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
| 3 | The incorporation of visiting and casework into the administration of the juvenile exchange system not only reflected the continuation of both the practices and the perspectives of the reforming middle class , but also , and ultimately this was of greater importance , it altered the nature of the age relationship , certainly in the degree to which volunteers were in contact with young workers . |
| 4 | Consequently , and this was of critical significance for all those who were concerned about the various aspects of the youth question , ‘ His education , which is the means whereby he becomes a citizen , is thus one of the State 's foremost concerns . ’ |
| 5 | This was of course in the days prior to National Health Insurance when prolonged illness meant real hardship . |
| 6 | This was of course a whole curriculum , whole staff development , and the secondee needed access to the staff in a structured and formal way rather than being reliant on informal and ad hoc contacts . |
| 7 | He was unwilling to disclose the still more impressive amount accruing on his retirement at age fifty-five , but this was of purely theoretical interest to me . |
| 8 | Whilst this was of some concern to Anne , who relied greatly on Joan , it was of no concern to Joan herself : enthralled by everything she saw , by fairytale glimpses of the capital , the palace and the royal family , she viewed everything and everyone with avid interest . |
| 9 | ( Partly because he remembers how ‘ cool ’ this was of John Peel , Fred sometimes now grabs fan letters and phones up the writer , ‘ to freak them out ’ . ) |
| 10 | This was of course extremely generous , but he extended his generosity to no other local saint after the first archbishop St Augustine , whom he could never have excluded . |
| 11 | This was of a piece with his fundamental conviction that the whole truth about God and about ourselves lies in Jesus Christ and must be found there . |
| 12 | By the concentrated bombardment the element of surprise was relinquished , but at Messines this was of no moment , for surprise was to be achieved by the detonation of the mines . |
| 13 | This was of immense psychological importance . |
| 14 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 15 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 16 | Urban Tyneside still has mining employment and in the recent past this was of great significance . |
| 17 | He fell silent as if this was of little or no account . |
| 18 | This was of five shillings value and in excellent condition . |
| 19 | This was of interest to the eminent German chemist F. A. Kekulé , but he failed to repeat Couper 's experiment : many years later Couper was proved perfectly correct . |
| 20 | This was of course Musorgsky 's plan in Example 4 . |
| 21 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 22 | This was of narrow gauge ( 1' 11 ’ ) and opened in the same year , 1868 , to carry slates from the Hendre Ddu quarries and timber down to the railway . |
| 23 | This was of course prior to the General Election . |
| 24 | In 15 of 16 subjects studied there was a fall in Vg , and in both control and patient groups this was of the order of 25% ( range , 1.9–66.7% ) . |
| 25 | Throughout the Roman Empire this was of three main types : the domus ( town house ) , the inula ( apartment block ) and the villa ( country house ) . |
| 26 | The one lay lord whose scope was seriously limited in this was of course the greatest , the King , who could seek no patron , and whose fiscal resources from taxation had to be charged on men whose own landed resources were under pressure . |
| 27 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 28 | One recommendation was to rotate sheep through paddocks , but since it involved the return of the sheep to their previously grazed paddocks in the same season , this was of little value . |
| 29 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 30 | Another was of the château , the water of the lake glistening in the evening sun . |