Example sentences of "be [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | The pebble in the conglomerates and sandstones are predominantly of local provenance , and the overall character of these rocks indicates sediment deposition close to source . |
| 3 | Since the programmes are predominantly of advanced modules , admissions decisions are made by the relevant Field Chairs . |
| 4 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 5 | Basic magmas , however , which are predominantly of basaltic composition , have a much lower silica content and are erupted at high temperatures . |
| 6 | ‘ You are right of course , my lady . |
| 7 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 8 | The perceptible facial expressions that have been described by other authors are mostly of no real help to us : ( i ) Yawning . |
| 9 | It is also worth noting that , whereas the mills of the Lancashire cotton trade on the west side of the Pennines are mostly of brick , the wool mills of Yorkshire , on the east side , are of the readily available stone . |
| 10 | Its street frontages are mostly of glass , separated by stone mullions designed to look like cast iron , and the windows are constructed as oriels in very slender iron frames ; it is included in this book because it was a pioneering metal-framed building . |
| 11 | They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone . |
| 12 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 13 | The remaining songs are mostly of a more cheerful nature , sometimes with an occasional function . |
| 14 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 15 | These are mostly of two kinds , first the great abbeys abandoned at the Dissolution , including Rievaulx , Furness and Leiston , and second , castles ranging from Dover in the south , Kenilworth in the midlands , to Norham in the north . |
| 16 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 18 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 19 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 20 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 21 | She had been right of course . |
| 22 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 23 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 24 | The buildings and the factories are still there , drab and decaying ; so are most of their occupants , down to the morose , chain-smoking soldiers who sit on guard in every official building . |
| 25 | Without exception , the show 's directors are all under 30 , as are most of the contributors , and Jason Rebello looks barely old enough to order a drink . |
| 26 | Where are most of the shallow mines ? |
| 27 | In which group , or category , of industry are most of the factories on the Treforest industrial estate ? |
| 28 | In which parts of the coalfield are most of the old shallow pits which have been closed ? |
| 29 | I know you 're a grown woman but so are most of the others who lurch their way down the not-so-primrosy path to the Betty Ford Clinic . ’ |
| 30 | Where you have your main account depends very much on where you are most of the time . |