Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions . |
| 2 | At the Kinlochewe pub , all the talk was of the Countryside Commission 's just published report ‘ The Mountain Areas of Scotland ’ recommending that Wester Ross have National Park status . |
| 3 | Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ? |
| 4 | Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence . |
| 5 | The review was of the Government 's failure under the Treaty of Rome to ensure equal treatment for EC and British nationals who apply for grants to pay the cost of their fees to study in this country . |
| 6 | Taking all sources of error into account Crowson concluded that the total error in using the tube was of the order of 5 per cent . |
| 7 | The Court was of the opinion that section 133 did not apply to the activation of the suspended sentence , as it was clear that when a sentencer activated a suspended sentence he did not ‘ impose ’ the sentence for the purpose of section 133 . |
| 8 | Although the court was of the view that these remaining grounds were arguable , it refused to relist the appeal . |
| 9 | Had it not been for the section , the court was of the view that the claim would have been defeated by volenti . |
| 10 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 11 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 12 | By this time the government was of the opinion that difficulties which arose in relations between clergy and peasants sprang not merely from the economic arrangements on which the livelihood of priests depended , but from the priests ' character . |
| 13 | According to a witness accompanying Constantine 's army at the time , the vision was of the sun god — the deity worshipped by certain cults under the name of Sol Invictus , the ‘ Invincible Sun ’ . |
| 14 | Again the test is subjective : did the defendant know that the information was of the type proscribed by the Act ? |
| 15 | The Sheriff was of the opinion that the pursuers ' right to damages arose at once upon the default of the defenders , as every breach gave rise to a claim of damages irrespective of whether it was a breach sufficiently material to justify rescission . |
| 16 | In two weeks of December the number of male vagrants had risen to 371 , which included 252 ex-soldiers , and the master was of the opinion that the increase was due to the fact that many of the unemployed in London were returning to their own towns through the casual wards . |
| 17 | The total effort required to design and build the system was of the order of fourteen man years . |
| 18 | She looked out of the window ; , the view was of the sea . |
| 19 | Calvin 's doctrine of election had the consequence that no earthly priesthood could arrogate the authority to determine whether an individual was of the elect . |