Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , is surely not a matter for grave concern ( except of course to ardent devotees ) since the precise metaphysical status of the magic shibboleth is of much less interest than the insights which it has inspired . |
| 2 | Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another . |
| 3 | What he writes is of interest because it shows his attitude to his illness , and to the importance of relieving the pressures of his illness . |
| 4 | What happens is of course , you 're so , very often socialised into behaving like this , ask yourself if your an A type , are your parents A types ? |
| 5 | What he says is of interest . |
| 6 | So what she wears is of considerable importance , and you will need to describe her clothes in fair detail , though with as much economy in the writing as you can manage . |
| 7 | In such cases it is perfectly understandable that discussion of the culture from which a language grows is of minor importance and may in fact be actively discouraged . |
| 8 | Again , ‘ The possibility of this universal love and joy in all that exists is of supreme importance for the conduct and happiness of life , and gives inestimable value to the mystic emotion , apart from any creeds which may be built upon it . |
| 9 | These fortifications deserve a word : much of what survives is of fourth-century date , for a good reason : in the fifth century Athens had her fleet , and that was the chief instrument of her classical imperialism . |
| 10 | If Mace means what is ordinarily meant by ‘ my body as it appears to me ’ then the distinction he draws is of no use to us . |
| 11 | The nature of the evidence about coin finds is of varying quality . |
| 12 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 13 | The story the DTI report tells is of a highly successful small businessman who found himself out of his depth in the big league into which he was propelled by the Manpower acquisition . |
| 14 | Eva is married to a preacher and the tale she tells is of their Baptist congregation whose exuberant spiritual style of worship was banned by the colonial Government in 1917 . |
| 15 | The law of retaliation ( lex talionis , verses 15ff. ) : the principle this law expresses is of exact public justice , as opposed to individual revenge . |
| 16 | Moreover , the picture that emerges is of very considerable feelings of isolation , even within a marital couple . |
| 17 | It explains that ‘ the picture that emerges is of a group of people who were keen to engage in farming on their own account and who established themselves on a smallholding , often many years ago , but who have failed to progress beyond this first step in the farming ladder . |
| 18 | After studying the detailed entries in the parish registers of a group of farming settlements in the Vale of York from 1777 onwards , Dr B. A. Holderness has concluded that , ‘ The picture which emerges is of village communities refreshed by an influx from similar settlements lying at a comparatively short distance away . ’ |
| 19 | The picture that emerges is of a man both maddening and engaging in his inner spiritual drive , and in his search for a way of living appropriate to its demands . |
| 20 | The picture that emerges is of a grim tide of sociological , economic and policy factors that has simply washed many young people to the fringes of society . |
| 21 | It 's it 's four hundredths of do n't forget that times is of . |
| 22 | It is an example of his assiduous , hard-working and caring role as a constituency Member that he has raised this matter which he feels is of great importance to his constituents . |
| 23 | The main impression he gives is of entrepreneurial acumen and ability to adapt to the culture of whichever time zone he flies into . |
| 24 | He tells stories such as how his grandfather shot at a flock of wild geese from the back of his pony , which took fright , threw him and he broke an arm which had to be amputated , and as a boy the tumulus where the arm was buried was pointed out to him , The list of the founders of Port Ellen in 1821 and their occupations and place of residence which he gives is of great interest . |
| 25 | He tells stories such as how his grandfather shot at a flock of wild geese from the back of his pony , which took fright , threw him and he broke an arm which had to be amputated , and as a boy the tumulus where the arm was buried was pointed out to him , The list of the founders of Port Ellen in 1821 and their occupations and place of residence which he gives is of great interest . |
| 26 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 27 | One source of inverse Laplace transforms is of course direct comparison with known Laplace transforms . |
| 28 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |