Example sentences of "[verb] be of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the samples you make are of use to you . |
| 2 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 3 | Until now , Mr Major 's biggest fear has been of revenge attacks on the 2,400 British troops . |
| 4 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 5 | Because during the course of our discussions today I 'll ask you to introduce me to others if , and only if , you think this meeting with me today has been of benefit to yourself , would that be okay ? |
| 6 | His coaching and help at nets has been of benefit to all our players . ’ |
| 7 | Much of the literature in this area has been of US origin , and the more general applicability of such managerial strategies to other countries needs , therefore , to be considered in the light of evidence from cross-national studies . |
| 8 | In these various ways biblical criticism has been of use in interpreting the Old Testament and defending its integrity against those who question its truth . |
| 9 | Glycosylated haemoglobin is also a product of a nonenzymatic post-translational reaction , and its measurement has been of use in patients with diabetes mellitus as an indicator of the degree of hyperglycaemia during the preceding 8 weeks . |
| 10 | The ontological status of fictional worlds has been of interest to philosophers as well as literary critics . |
| 11 | In ‘ culture studies ’ , and quickly entering the more proper sociological study of culture , talk has been of modernity versus postmodernity , of modernism versus postmodernism . |
| 12 | Sampling theory has been of value in various areas of museum work , from assessing the long-term resources required for conservation treatment of the British Museum 's large collection of Babylonian clay tablets , to ensuring that a given ‘ kill rate ’ in insecticides used for paper conservation will provide effective treatment . |
| 13 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 14 | They have to communicate to their public and explain how the services they provide are of value . |
| 15 | What he writes is of interest because it shows his attitude to his illness , and to the importance of relieving the pressures of his illness . |
| 16 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 17 | You would probably choose to use materials of this kind because the aspects of the culture featured are of relevance to your students . |
| 18 | What happens is of course , you 're so , very often socialised into behaving like this , ask yourself if your an A type , are your parents A types ? |
| 19 | What he says is of interest . |
| 20 | However , the module to be scanned must reside in your current VMS directory , together with any necessary foreign files if the module to be scanned is of type FOREIGN , otherwise an error will be reported . |
| 21 | Questions about how examination results should be interpreted are of interest in their own right but are also important in studies of school effectiveness and wider debates about how educational institutions should be evaluated and held accountable . |
| 22 | Example 4:11 Rent review machinery ; notice , counternotice reference to arbitration ( 1 ) the landlord may serve upon the tenant not earlier than one year before the review date in question a notice ( " a Review Notice " ) calling for a review of the rent ( 2 ) if the landlord serves a Review Notice then the rent payable with effect from the review date to which it relates shall be : ( a ) such sum as may be specified in the Review Notice or ( b ) the higher of the rent payable immediately before that review date and the Market Rent if ( but only if ) the tenant so elects by counternotice in writing served on the landlord not later than two months ( time being of essence ) after the service of a Review Notice ( 3 ) if the tenant serves a counternotice the Market Rent shall be determined in default of agreement within two months after the service of the counternotice by arbitration . |
| 23 | If the first criticism we read is of Shakespeare ( an Othello casebook , typically ) , then the first contemporary poe we come across is probably Ted ( ‘ a black — /Back gull bent like an iron-bar slowly ’ ) Hughes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 26 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 27 | Those with significant property to leave were of course a minority . |
| 28 | The particular issues raised were of over-assessment and of a fragmented approach to assessment . |
| 29 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 30 | In addition , the ability to recognise and trace witnesses and the conditions under which police witnesses made observations might all have been of assistance to the defendants . |