Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 2 | The Break Through is of 50% graphite/50% fibreglass construction , and is a widebody profile for the more advanced club competitor . |
| 3 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 4 | The primary effect of the nodal description above is of inaccessibility to the reader . |
| 5 | At that time , the principal manufacture locally was of lace . |
| 6 | Some of the most accomplished yelling was conducted by men for whom the only college worth getting in a strop over was of the electoral variety . |
| 7 | Heidelberg possesses some of these , but most of the work here is of a later date or has been replaced . |
| 8 | These ideological definitions of a normal or proper household therefore are of relatively recent origin . |
| 9 | The only sound now is of the dogs , howling from the closed front room . |
| 10 | The danger now is of being lulled into a false sense of family security . |
| 11 | The atmosphere in the England dressing-room then was of ‘ resigned aimlessness ’ . |
| 12 | The overall picture however is of an agreeable , reasonably educated bunch — many going on to universities or training colleges , sadly few coming from state schools . |
| 13 | But the way in which they affected interpretations of government policy of the quarter-century after the war certainly is of interest [ Artis and Lewis , 1981 ] . |
| 14 | Accordingly this case also is of no assistance with reference to the issue which their Lordships have to decide . |
| 15 | It is of course necessary that the alternative definition of a mental event not be of something which in fact can be recalled afterwards , but of something of which there is a logical possibility of recall . |
| 16 | The only disturbance on the water now was of their own making . |
| 17 | Service today is of the utmost importance . |
| 18 | The trade here is of a more usual nature with the pubs open to 11 at night . |
| 19 | The number of unknown factors is so great and the processes by which place-names have survived so irregular and difficult to assess , that their use here is of limited value ( Gelling 1978 ; Arnold and Wardle 1981 ; Taylor 1983 ; Welch 1985 , pp. 17–18 ; Copley 1986 ) . |
| 20 | The popularly held view of old age today is of very old people , usually women , living alone , socially isolated , managing on inadequate incomes , poorly housed , suffering ill health , dependent on younger carers , yet isolated from their families . |
| 21 | The other thing you 've got in that packet are some erm , er , dates er , if , if , what you 'll see is there 's a space on the spine of the storage binder for putting the year date for the r , er , okay , the basic precept here is of course , you never throw away an old diary , in case you get sued . |
| 22 | The instance here is of Stavrogin pretending to the provincial governor that he has a secret to communicate to him , and , when the unsuspecting old man ‘ hastily and trustfully ’ inclines his head , seizing his ear in his teeth and holding on to it , biting hard . |
| 23 | The difficulty here is of a different order . |
| 24 | What was vital in a young mirza ( or gentleman ) were the clothes and manners which covered him ; the wholeness or corruption of the man within was of no interest or relevance . |
| 25 | As they flew over the capital , returning the Archon to the Imperial Palace , the sight below was of units of soldiers fighting hand to hand battles with other military units . |
| 26 | Success now was of the kind associated with Henry Pelham , who during his time at the Treasury from 1749 to 1757 rescheduled almost 90 per cent of the 4 per cent debt , down to 3.5 per cent in 1750 and down again to 3 per cent by 1757 . |
| 27 | Her immediate thought now was of her mother and the boys , travelling home by train . |
| 28 | In the event of a fire , a maroon would be set off and their turn out was of such a high standard that they arrived at fires out of the district before the local brigades in whose area the fire was . |
| 29 | Adorno 's mistake here is of course grounded in his Euro — and class-centric theory of musical evolution . |
| 30 | If we divide each row through by its diagonal element , ( 1 ) becomes unc The leading matrix here is of the form I + C , where C is null except for the elements above the diagonal . |