Example sentences of "[noun] was of the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Her only consciousness was of the pulsing energy washing over her , picking her up , carrying her along whether she willed it or not , his body pulsing against her own with its blatant male need , and she felt helpless against it .
3 Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ?
4 Speed was of the essence and manpower was limited .
5 She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship .
6 And a that surprises me and concerns me because when this went to District Council 's Environment and Planning Committee first of all speed was of the essence .
7 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 .
8 The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years .
9 For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) .
10 & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs
11 The strongest image I got from his stories and subsequent research was of the oppressive jungle and heat in which the soldiers fought .
12 At the Kinlochewe pub , all the talk was of the Countryside Commission 's just published report ‘ The Mountain Areas of Scotland ’ recommending that Wester Ross have National Park status .
13 In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare .
14 At suppertime in the servants ’ hall all the talk was of the coming party .
15 Talk was of the mysteries of tension ribbing … and men .
16 Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order .
17 This vote was of the utmost significance .
18 Well , humiliation was of the mind .
19 The review was of the Government 's failure under the Treaty of Rome to ensure equal treatment for EC and British nationals who apply for grants to pay the cost of their fees to study in this country .
20 Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence .
21 Apart from the deliberate references to Theodoric and Charlemagne , which are intended to show that Frederick Barbarossa was of the same mould as these great heroes , the description of the Kaiserslauten palace is especially interesting .
22 Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today .
23 Management had ‘ failed abysmally to ensure work was of the proper standard ’ .
24 According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent .
25 The first recording session was of The Fair Field , Arnold 's commission to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the famous Fairfield Hall , Croydon in 1973 .
26 Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role .
27 I can therefore state with total confidence that Subject B was of the female sex .
28 The plot was of the familiar war-patrol variety .
29 The ceiling was of the suspended kind , a lightweight grid of porous tiles with an airflow space above .
30 Shackleton et al. ( 1982 ) thought the thickness of Late Palaeozoic sediments eroded in the area of the West of England granites was of the order of 5 km .
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