Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of mimicking was described by the great biologist Henry Bates in the l9th century ; and such Batesian mimicry has long been of interest , particularly to students of evolution . |
| 2 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 3 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |
| 4 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 5 | Applebey concluded that , whilst useful to lawyers , the pre-trial review in the county court civil action has not been of enormous assistance to the ordinary person trying to conduct his or her own case . |
| 6 | Cultural theorists fell on pop video with squeals of delight ( there is already more high theory of video around than there has ever been of music ) ; pop fans watching the Whistle Test 's weekly video vote just groaned . |
| 7 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 8 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 9 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 10 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 11 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 12 | Who owns which bit of land and what they decide to do with it has always been of critical importance , and our landscape is the result of countless human decisions taken by individuals in the past . |
| 13 | The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company . |
| 14 | Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP . |
| 15 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 16 | As well as the waterway , Healings own a fleet of road tankers for grain transport , and the location of motorway junctions , built in the 1970s and 1980s near Tewkesbury , has also been of great advantage a far cry from the early years of the century , when deliveries were made by a 12 mph Foden lorry . |
| 17 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 18 | The fact that he has also been of service to AIM is a bonus . |
| 19 | Its sheer size , mountain locality and NE aspect mean climbing here is of a serious nature . |
| 20 | The evaluation reported here is of the first versions of the lexical access component ( LA ) and of the project 's acoustic-phonetic front-end ( SEGLAB ) . |
| 21 | The two described here were of that period and were most likely to have been inspired by our invisible mentor , Charles Hayward , the then editor of The Woodworker . |
| 22 | The nature and extent of housing programmes in the post-war years has therefore been of great significance for urban form , community life and degrees of individual happiness . |
| 23 | Erm , it , perhaps part of it has been that a lot of the job creation mentioned has actually been of female and part-time work , and a lot of the er , new businesses in erm , Telford actually employ a lot of women in , in those areas . |
| 24 | Each of the eighteen pavements listed above is of one of these four types of arrangement : Type A : Star-like squares as elaborate motif : nos. 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , and 18 . |
| 25 | It has been converted to rhd at some point after manufacture ( as have many others , which if done properly is of no consequence ) . |
| 26 | The picture we show here is of the wonderful Fife-built Sumurun , racing round the Needles . |
| 27 | Admirers of Furtwängler 's renowned mastery of large-scale symphonic structures will no doubt be disappointed that all the items presented here are of relatively short duration . |
| 28 | You are married to an Italian , you live in Italy , what happens here is of great importance to your future . ’ |
| 29 | We would like to think that the number he announced yesterday was of his choosing . |
| 30 | The first paper to look in is of course your own local paper . |