Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 2 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 3 | In some areas the surveyors coloured their maps to depict the boundaries of the various rock formations observed , but the geology thus shown was of a very general nature . |
| 4 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 5 | Firstly , the hypotensive effect of this drug may not have been of sufficient size to reduce microalbuminuria . |
| 6 | While he was in Chinese captivity , and apart from writing poems in classical Chinese ( some of which , while they may not have been of the highest order classically , are nevertheless moving and rather beautiful ) Ho had also translated Dr Sun Yat Sen 's modern political classic the San Min Chu I into Vietnamese and this expedient flattery of China and Chinese continued after Ho 's release . |
| 7 | When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse . |
| 8 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 9 | Yachting World has long believed sailing to be one of the principal sports in which women can compete directly with men , particularly as , in sailing , brain and not just brawn is of the essence . |
| 10 | None of the points just mentioned is of any great significance in itself . |
| 11 | But the impression Andrew has always given is of being married first and foremost to his work . " |
| 12 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 13 | ‘ She had not had an easy life , especially towards the end , but the impression she always gave was of courage . |
| 14 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 15 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 16 | At first she sat in silence , stirring her tea as though to get it thoroughly stirred was of the utmost importance . |
| 17 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 18 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 19 | Similar selective pressures associated with foods from the second trophic level may also have been of importance in the later development of the hominids themselves |
| 20 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 21 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 22 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 23 | The highest counts so far recorded are of c. 2,400 on 13 October 1973 , and 2,480 on 25 September 1976 . |
| 24 | This usually involves over 1,000 birds , and the highest count so far recorded was of 1,535 in Chichester Harbour on 30 January 1972 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | What I did n't know was of the ninety-plus pieces of work , both large and small , which Save The Children undertook in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | This may well have been of benefit to individuals , but school board members were very conscious of their role as representatives of parents and the local community . |
| 28 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 29 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 30 | Do you not think that up to now Middle Eastern countries and some other nations and people as well have been of the super powers in their giant struggle against each other , but now the United States may be able to take er , if you like a more mature and more relaxed attitude . |