Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 2 | To counteract this , one must consider growing few plants other than the all important submerged oxygenating plants , or else arresting the turbulence by placing beneath the fountain a large ring which is of greater diameter than the lower bowl . |
| 3 | This is the " kidney worm " of sine which is of economic importance in its endemic areas . |
| 4 | In such a setting arousal is expected to arise naturally from the situation confronting the driver and it is likely to be memory for the source of arousal which is of particular interest ( e.g. memory for the behaviour of another vehicle involved in an accident ) . |
| 5 | In more recent years , the example of Fleming 's discovery of penicillin is a good case of the almost accidental research which was of tremendous value . |
| 6 | Students have the opportunity to select areas of study which are of personal and professional interest ; to study in-depth issues relevant to the theory and practice of nursing and education and to participate in a stimulating exchange of ideas across cultural and disciplinary boundaries . |
| 7 | The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy 's publication Local Authority 1 : Accounting Principles ( 1985 , p. 11 ) proposes the following rule for identifying capital expenditure : ‘ Any outlay which is of value to the Authority in the provision of these services beyond the end of the year of account should be recorded as a capital asset provided there is no legal constraint . ’ |
| 8 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 9 | It has remained the accepted practice that all important governmental decisions emanate from the central departments in Whitehall , a practice which is of great help to the political leadership as it collects all the levers of policy-making and administrative control into one , compact , signal box . |
| 10 | Rather , it is the highest level of qualification held by an employee which is of interest , and therefore any lower level information is superfluous and a burden on the system . |
| 11 | It is therefore perfectly possible for social care to be provided in an ordinary household with rehabilitation and personal development as its main purpose ; in other words , the therapy itself is of a social care nature . |
| 12 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 13 | It 's in my mind she 's of greater importance than she seems . |
| 14 | ‘ The carriage itself is of oblong shape , the dimensions being about 13ft by 7ft thus forming a handsome saloon , 8ft high in the clear . |
| 15 | With more than one fifth of the world 's population living in China , the agricultural industry there is of considerable interest , and collaborative research on agriculture could be of benefit to all the partners involved . |
| 16 | No such scarps have been observed on other maria , perhaps because any lava there was of such low viscosity that it spread out into very thin sheets before solidifying . |
| 17 | As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives . |
| 18 | Although in terms of expense they are of course more expensive , and therefore this also erm is something one , one has to consider . |
| 19 | Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract . |
| 20 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 21 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 22 | The great neo-classicist , Sir John Soane , for example , vehemently opposed the use of a pediment upon a building which was of neither sacred nor great civic importance . |
| 23 | It is discourse which propels language acquisition , and it is the shared meaning in interaction which is of critical importance . |
| 24 | The reconstruction of the possible sequence of events in his life which can be inferred from the Office and personal remarks in his writings , is at best a complicated matter of academic conjecture which is of no direct help to the reader in engaging with his English works . |
| 25 | One further method of tension reduction which is of interest has been described by Graff and Mallin ( 1967 ) . |
| 26 | It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract . |
| 27 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 28 | The perceived difficulty of ending marriages was doubtless one of the reasons for the increased concern with wife-battering which was of major import in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 29 | I it looks like there 's a lot of freedom in there at the local level which is of interest . |
| 30 | But it is the rear-view binocular field which is of particular use in keeping the rabbit safe . |