Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 2 | The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly . |
| 3 | Vamplew ( 1979:2f ) states that , of the five types of disorder classified by Mann and Pearce , ‘ all but remonstrance can be found at soccer grounds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , though the majority of incidents appear to have been of the frustration or confrontation varieties ’ . |
| 4 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 5 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 6 | What Eleanor Darcy has to say is of course monstrous , fascist . |
| 7 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 8 | He made a sweeping movement with his hand , as if what she 'd said was of no interest . |
| 9 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 10 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 11 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 12 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 13 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 14 | President , congress we should applaud the work of the Health and Environment department at National Office and in supporting this service report we must go swiftly forward into wide-ranging discussions at all levels of the G M B. The publications they have produced have been of a consistent high standard and are very user-friendly . |
| 15 | Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash . |
| 16 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 17 | The precise rating of the engine is not known , but Thomas had specified about 25 h.p. , and it appears to have been of that order . |
| 18 | On the other hand , in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment , ex parte Rose Theatre Trust Co. the judge appears to have been of the view that an applicant could have standing only on the basis of a personal interest and not on the basis of representing the interests of others . |
| 19 | Whig Jacobitism , however , appears to have been of minimal significance in Scotland . |
| 20 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
| 21 | The claim seems to have been of recent origin , and it is not quite clear on what it was based apart from the general principle of primacy . |
| 22 | Increasing EEC involvement in defence and foreign policy seems to have been of particular concern to the Danes . |
| 23 | On each occasion the items stolen have been of little value , but the thefts are a continual thorn in the side of the cricket club committee . |
| 24 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 25 | There is one ailment where learning to relax is of special importance , and that is asthma . |
| 26 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 27 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 28 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 29 | The disruption which farmers and landowners have faced has been of a somewhat different kind : they have suffered a loss of their traditional authority over the village population which they once took virtually for granted . |
| 30 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |