Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [be] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His personality and judgement were of most significance in the fields of foreign and military affairs . |
| 2 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 3 | S is also for SUBSTITUTE , which sugar and saccharine are of each other . |
| 4 | An important part of parliament 's business concerned affairs of state : decisions about royal marriages , war and trade were of this kind . |
| 5 | And , IBM was happy to have the world believe , IBMers were an inherently superior breed , that its recruitment and training were of such excellence that man for man , any IBMer would be effortlessly superior to his counterpart in any competing company . |
| 6 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 7 | Criticism and cajolery are of little help in changing the basic trends of an individual 's psyche . |