Example sentences of "[num ord] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two themes in the liturgy of the Feast of St John : the first is of release — the opening of Anna 's previously barren womb and of Zacharias 's dumb mouth , the washing away of sin ; the second is of salvation — of baptismal rebirth , foreshadowings ended and prophecies fulfilled through the Coming of Christ . |
| 2 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 3 | The second was of a more theoretical nature , dealing with the constitution of salicylic acid . |
| 4 | The first is of no value , and the second I would not touch with a barge pole . |
| 5 | The first is of familiarity . |
| 6 | There are two themes in the liturgy of the Feast of St John : the first is of release — the opening of Anna 's previously barren womb and of Zacharias 's dumb mouth , the washing away of sin ; the second is of salvation — of baptismal rebirth , foreshadowings ended and prophecies fulfilled through the Coming of Christ . |
| 7 | The first is of course that covering the plaintiff 's pain , suffering and loss of amenity . |
| 8 | The first was of my parents appealing for news of me and — of course — for my release . |
| 9 | The first was of Professor F. A. Lindemann , Viscount Cherwell [ q.v . ] , |
| 10 | The first was of an Iraqi incursion in unprecedented strength into Iranian territory across the Shatt al-Araba near Basrah . |
| 11 | The two theories to be discussed next are of more recent date and , essentially , represent attempts to modify Leibniz 's and Kant 's theories , respectively , in an effort to salvage what is regarded as the sound core of these theories by stripping them of their philosophically undesirable features . |
| 12 | ‘ My earliest memory of my father is of him galloping down a field ; my last is of him reaching out to me like a helpless kitten ’ |
| 13 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 14 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 15 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |