Example sentences of "[num] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 2 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 3 | This represented 6.8 per cent of the population , although 10,000,000 out of the total population of 56,100,000 were of recent foreign origin . |
| 4 | The new purpose-built engine and gearbox features a central power take-off and the flat 12 is of a monobloc design . |
| 5 | The departmental budget ( which covers costs other than those of buildings ( including rent and external maintenance ) and the salaries of academic staff which are met centrally ) for the School of Geography for 1992–3 is of the order of 408K , of which 304K relates to the cost of departmental salaries and 104K to non-staff costs . |
| 6 | The example in Fig. 2 is of an undulating jet where the material may be expanding along helically twisted magnetic field lines . |
| 7 | The bronze key shown in Pic 2 is of similar date to the bolt . |
| 8 | The meeting of the Odiham Society on 5 August 1790 was of crucial significance . |
| 9 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 10 | Unofficial figures show that over 65% of courts built in 1991 are of the macadam variety , 10% are artificial grass and 6% are acrylic . |
| 11 | Last year 's View from Invercauld and a painting of Wensleydale from Gunnerside in 1991 are of exceptional quality , while there is a particularly fine , and possibly historically significant , painting of Hong Kong seen from the afterdeck of Britannia , with the White Ensign hanging limply in the foreground . |
| 12 | SAVE 100 'S OF HOURS OF PROGRAMMING ON LOTUS 1–2–3 |
| 13 | On Eastbourne promenade we have created a tropical paradise with flowers from all over the world , and into this setting , flying around in the natural habitat are 100 's of LIVE butterflies . |
| 14 | If I get 100 's of replies I will have to send them to the list anyway . |
| 15 | On her behalf it was said she 'd won 100 's of prizes for her livestock . |
| 16 | The three-strand guilloche of mosaic 7 is of black , red , brown , and white , whereas the four-strand guilloche of mosaic C is grey , white , pale-blue , and brown with some yellow ( Neal 1981 , no. 40 ) . |
| 17 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 18 | All three are of type K. |
| 19 | Of the 89 records we scrutinised , only three were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 20 | By detecting the integrated hepatitis B virus DNA in hepatocellular carcinoma genome , Chen et al reported five pairs of primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma ; two showing the same clonal origin , while the other three were of different clonalities . |
| 21 | And I do n't really see that erm , number three is of vital importance either . |
| 22 | The debt which George I took over in 1714 was of two main kinds : short-term unfunded and long-term funded . |
| 23 | While all the local authority construction of the 1940s was of very high quality for general needs , the late 1950s saw the first non-traditional units in the form of Wimpey 's point blocks built at Hunters and Murrays Closes in Percy Main . |
| 24 | The attitudes represented by factor 5 are of enthusiasm towards SSE , in which regard Oxfordshire teachers are generally moderately positive . |
| 25 | However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work . |
| 26 | Types 3 and 4 are of direct relevance to us , and are discussed in some detail in the present chapter ; types 1 and 2 , on the other hand , are irrelevant , and we need to know how to exclude them . |
| 27 | A substrate 1 has successive epitaxial layers 2 to 6 , the first three 2 , 3 , 4 being of materials suitable for a double heterojunction laser , layer 5 being of high resistivity material and layer 6 being of a material suitable for an FET channel . |
| 28 | A substrate 1 has successive epitaxial layers 2 to 6 , the first three 2 , 3 , 4 being of materials suitable for a double heterojunction laser , layer 5 being of high resistivity material and layer 6 being of a material suitable for an FET channel . |
| 29 | Of the straightforward deliveries to readers , 62 were of items housed in the Main Building which were either early ( pre-1700 ) or rare , and which , in accordance with Library practice , had to be consulted in the South Reading Room . |
| 30 | The Letter of Aristeas with its determined proclamation of the sacred value of the LXX is of course another striking indication of the degree of independence which the Egyptian Jews reached in their religious life . |