Example sentences of "of [noun sg] are [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 275 acres of pasture are of the best and surround the house on all sides , undulating towards distant hills — and to Dublin airport only half-an-hour away . |
| 2 | The parents of otaku are from the Sixties generation , very democratic and tolerant . |
| 3 | In the early spring , stalks of rhubarb are about the only fresh , home-grown fruit available — although it is technically a vegetable . |
| 4 | This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type . |
| 5 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 6 | When the metabolites of morphine are in the wrong ratio |
| 7 | Acts of nomination are at the same time acts of ‘ classification ’ . |
| 8 | These aspects of belief are at the very heart of the Eucharist itself . |
| 9 | The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity . |
| 10 | General indices of health are among the worst in the world , ranking with such countries as Bangladesh and Haiti . |
| 11 | Your sources your sources of supply are on the other side of the room . |