Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE outlook for retail sales is seen by Midland Montagu Research to be of ‘ pivotal importance to the economy . ’ |
| 2 | The rules of Equity as to stipulations about time and other provisions which would not be held by Equity to be of the essence of the contract , are to prevail in all cases . |
| 3 | It is a pleasure to be of service . ’ |
| 4 | For speech recognition to be of any real use , however , the computer must seem to ‘ understand ’ the speech as fast as another human , the number crunching approach rarely achieves this . |
| 5 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |
| 6 | Kepler Wessels , the South African captain , has said , somewhat surprisingly , that he considers the one-day series and the Test to be of equal importance . |
| 7 | This statement does not have to be taken as gospel to be of use . |
| 8 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 9 | In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault . |
| 10 | I take full account of these defects in his evidence , but overall I found his experience of the likely care regimes introduced in cashes , in cases such as that of the plaintiff to be of assistance . |
| 11 | All the chairmen made an effort to reply to inaccurate or unverifiable press criticism , and to stress their Boards ' positive work in maintaining supplies in difficult conditions of great austerity , but experience proved truth to be of only limited effectiveness against prejudice . |
| 12 | The Oxford Archaeological Unit has stated the site to be of limited interest and have said that a full excavation would suffice to investigate it . |
| 13 | Again , so far as the language of the statute is concerned , I can see no reason in principle why the constable in the course of explaining to the driver his rights under section 8(2) should not tell him , if it be the case , that he , the constable , will require the replacement specimen to be of blood . |
| 14 | His compulsion to be of service and to act from his feelings had found its outlet . |
| 15 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 16 | To this end the fish food business , which was mainly trout food was sold to the Swedish Company in 1982 and the farm feed business to 's of Burston in 1984 . |
| 17 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 18 | An empowering statute will often frame the jurisdictional requirement in the following terms : if the Secretary of State has reasonable cause to believe , for example , a person to be of hostile origin , he may imprison him . |
| 19 | He obviously had to get him up f erm sort of rolled him over er one way then the other to be of but the er the legs of the jeans on . |
| 20 | My dealer lacks sufficient knowledge to be of any help . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me , my lady — is it mere courtesy that makes the bells ring , that makes moonlight of a sudden more desirable than sunlight and makes one yearn for this Twelfth Night to be of the past ? |
| 22 | Our data support the results of other studies which have found the erythrocyte sedimentation rate to be of very limited value . |
| 23 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 24 | Clanricarde published long statements in which he denied the allegations and explained that he had become involved with the Hancock family 's legal arrangements purely out of a good-natured wish to be of assistance . |
| 25 | In its place only a sense of duty and a wish to be of help to the people she had come to love kept Shelley from despair . |
| 26 | A voice whispered that the work was nonsense , too far removed from the interests of the age to be of value . |
| 27 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 28 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 29 | This is a very small steel device with not enough fence area to be of real use . |
| 30 | Worse , the end of communism removed Greece 's claim to be of special interest to the democracies of the West . |