Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 2 | If the chief officer was of the opinion that the resources available to him were inadequate to prevent the feared disorder , he could take certain steps to have the procession banned altogether . |
| 3 | The ‘ writtenness ’ of the apostolic tradition was of the accidents rather than the substance of the apostolic proclamation concerning Christ . |
| 4 | The most frequent criticism was of the food , and over this there was a difference between old people 's homes for which 26 per cent thought the food ‘ not so good ’ and nursing homes for which it was 7 per cent . |
| 5 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 6 | Judge Tumim went to inspect the jail next day , and he said his overwhelming impression was of the powerlessness of Wymott staff in the face of organized criminal activity . |
| 7 | The total contract cost of the church conversion and the adjacent new building was of the order of £1.25 million and the work extended over twenty-one months . |
| 8 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 9 | The other image was of the person behind him , Jeopardy , with his hair unplaited and his eyes fierce , pacing like a caged animal along the wall . |
| 10 | He has also developed a style of polished elegance which has become as characteristic of our time as Man Ray 's solarized photography was of the years around 1930 . |