Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tasks of planning and liaising , and monitoring are of particular relevance here . |
| 2 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 3 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 4 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
| 5 | Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding the fact that Dirks was found not guilty , the tests laid down in the case are of great significance : a tipper 's liability is contingent upon the purpose of his action ; while a tippee 's liability is limited to those situations where he knows or ought reasonably to know of the insider 's breach of duty . |
| 7 | The facts of this case are of such gravity that a sentence of general deterrent is necessary , ’ said the judge . |
| 8 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such condition-CC |
| 10 | ( c ) The implied obligation of merchantable quality The SGA 1979 and the SGSA 1982 provide that , where goods are sold in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality . |
| 11 | Thus s14(2) of SGA 1979 ( replicated in s10(2) of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss4(3) , 9(3) of SGSA 1982 ) provides : ( 2 ) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such condition ( a ) as regards defects specifically drawn to the buyer 's attention before the contract is made ; or ( b ) if the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made , as regards defects which that examination ought to reveal . |
| 12 | Proceeds from the offering , which was managed by Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp are for working capital . |
| 13 | Morphemic complexity and syllabic complexity are in gross terms reasonably equivalent ; but they are not necessarily equivalent for individual words ; for example , six-th-s contains three morphemes , but only one syllable ; establish , on the other hand , contains only one morpheme , but three syllables. ( ii ) An idiom may be roughly defined as a sequence of two or more words , the meaning of which is not predictable from the meanings of the constituent words ; eg get by , as it were , under the weather . |
| 14 | BUREAUX de change are at last being forced to offer travellers detailed information about the rates they offer and the commission they charge . |
| 15 | Most accounts of the methods of inspection are by retired or practising HMIs , although those on the receiving end do describe the experience . |
| 16 | Now I am in year eleven and I have the main female role in a production we are doing next year , and rehearsals for next year 's school play are in full swing . |
| 17 | The results from the simple syntactic processor are of little use to the semantic analysis , being simply a rating of the ‘ goodness ’ of fit of a word given its local syntactic environment . |
| 18 | On the whole , Acts , despite their legal precision , are fairly loose guides when it comes actually to setting up the services they authorize , and the decisions made by the administrators of services at central or local level are of great importance in shaping the provision . |
| 19 | However , few true expert systems exist , but many extremely useful systems that utilise human knowledge but do n't necessarily perform at the expert level are in regular operation . |
| 20 | And in any case , the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help , or interest , to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 21 | And the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 22 | And the particulars of such a seeming unequal struggle are of little immediate help to the Kids from La Fama . |
| 23 | Just as speeches by ministers made in association with the passage of an Act of Parliament are of little or no interest to a judge when he comes to interpret the law , so it is highly unlikely , though the matter has yet fully to be put to the test , that the Court of Justice will take much notice of intergovernmental pronouncements or agreements . |
| 24 | It is well known that many members of Parliament are among those who are deeply dissatisfied with Parliament 's ability to control the executive , or even to find out what it is doing . |
| 25 | Most of the names in this computer are of black people . |
| 26 | Although the RNLI has a unique appeal , the methods of attracting support are in many ways no different to those used by all the other major charities in the country . |
| 27 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 28 | The ease of application , fluidity and prompt absorption are of prime importance for such products and the massaging action on the affected area helps to activate the ingredients of the cream and improve circulation . |
| 29 | Standards which do not enable valid and reliable assessment are of little value to end users . |
| 30 | A few of the earlier lambs may be sold fat off their mothers , but the main sources of income are from six-to eight-month-old beef calves , store lambs ( about six months old ) , four-year-old ewes which go down-country for cross-breeding and the wool clip . |