Example sentences of "[noun sg] was of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 2 | Her only consciousness was of the pulsing energy washing over her , picking her up , carrying her along whether she willed it or not , his body pulsing against her own with its blatant male need , and she felt helpless against it . |
| 3 | Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ? |
| 4 | Speed was of the essence and manpower was limited . |
| 5 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 6 | And a that surprises me and concerns me because when this went to District Council 's Environment and Planning Committee first of all speed was of the essence . |
| 7 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 8 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 9 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 10 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 11 | The strongest image I got from his stories and subsequent research was of the oppressive jungle and heat in which the soldiers fought . |
| 12 | At the Kinlochewe pub , all the talk was of the Countryside Commission 's just published report ‘ The Mountain Areas of Scotland ’ recommending that Wester Ross have National Park status . |
| 13 | In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare . |
| 14 | At suppertime in the servants ’ hall all the talk was of the coming party . |
| 15 | Talk was of the mysteries of tension ribbing … and men . |
| 16 | This vote was of the utmost significance . |
| 17 | Well , humiliation was of the mind . |
| 18 | The review was of the Government 's failure under the Treaty of Rome to ensure equal treatment for EC and British nationals who apply for grants to pay the cost of their fees to study in this country . |
| 19 | Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence . |
| 20 | Management had ‘ failed abysmally to ensure work was of the proper standard ’ . |
| 21 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 22 | The first recording session was of The Fair Field , Arnold 's commission to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the famous Fairfield Hall , Croydon in 1973 . |
| 23 | The plot was of the familiar war-patrol variety . |
| 24 | The ceiling was of the suspended kind , a lightweight grid of porous tiles with an airflow space above . |
| 25 | A few girls were dancing together as they did at the youth club hops and the dancing was of the proper ‘ ballroom variety ’ — waltzes , quicksteps and foxtrots . |
| 26 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 27 | Mr Punshon said it should be remembered that membership was of the organisation not the club . |
| 28 | Even here , this distance from the road and behind the protection of the barbed-wire wall , security was of the utmost . |
| 29 | Taking all sources of error into account Crowson concluded that the total error in using the tube was of the order of 5 per cent . |
| 30 | The lidless 1664 parish coffin at Howden Minster , Yorkshire , is of 3/4-inch oak , better constructed than the Easingwold model , though with identical iron rings and , as there are no nail or screw holes on the upper width of the side panels , it is to be assumed that the lid was of the Easingwold type . |