Example sentences of "[noun pl] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 2 | Potential hardrock sources , associated with basic igneous rocks , do not have sufficiently high concentrations to be of commercial interest at present . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 4 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 5 | Babs was under too much of a strain trying to memorise her lines to be of help , and as for Dawn — well , unless the poor thing was actually wearing her glasses , the results could be decidedly hit and miss . |
| 6 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 7 | Most of the systems , including the spectronic destabilizer ( handy for blasting planets ) , were too large scale in their effects to be of any use in this situation . |
| 8 | 3. it will be understood by its observers to be of this character . |
| 9 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 10 | The following possibilities of choral orchestration are limited to the most-used textures ; traditional forms such as fugato , fugue , and canon are omitted , being too closely identified stylistically with past epochs to be of effective use today ( though some mention of them will be made later ) . |
| 11 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 12 | One of the drawbacks to being of mature years is the tendency to forget or mislay things — like keys . |
| 13 | Other workers have also found steroids to be of benefit in fibrotic overlap syndromes , and cyclophosphamide has been used with success to suppress fibrosis affecting the thyroid , face and orbit . |
| 14 | He still managed to get up the stairs in the pavilion to help launch Berkshire 's new sponsorship , but then perhaps he thought that the name of the sponsors — the Head Partnership — was far enough removed from his own problems to be of no concern . |
| 15 | Where perishable goods are to be despatched to the buyer by carrier , it is reasonable to expect the goods to be of such a quality as to be able to withstand a normal journey — Mash & murrell v. Joseph Emmanuel ( 1961 Q.B. ) . |
| 16 | The words ‘ reasonably fit ’ do not require the goods to be of the very best quality . |
| 17 | Although the words ‘ reasonably fit ’ do not require the goods to be of the very best quality , they do impose upon the seller an absolute obligation . |
| 18 | In ‘ It Swings , Jocko ’ he says , ‘ I want my dreams to be of deprivation … ’ ( which is , after all , the mother of poetry ) . |
| 19 | This undoubtedly reflects the complexity and breadth of the Government 's spending , but for the accounts to be of much use the disaggregated figures have to be used . |
| 20 | The Erembald family , of which the chancellor of St Donatian 's and the castellan of Bruges were members in 1127 , was alleged by its opponents to be of servile origin ; that its members chose to murder Charles the Good rather than dispute the allegation suggests its truth . |
| 21 | This is a good time to be thinking strategically and finding new ways for our skills to be of service to the public . |
| 22 | It is true also that with respect to free trade in some of the more intractable areas ( which happen also in many cases to be of greatest interest to Britain ) some progress has been made . |
| 23 | Although Decimax 's current ad shows these switches to be of the keypad variety , our unit used membrane types ; each push of the switch on the plus or minus end gives a corresponding level change ( indicated by the LEDs ) on that particular frequency . |
| 24 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 25 | Tell me have you found today 's discussions to be of benefit ? |
| 26 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the draft guidance issued by his Department does not require local authorities to be of any particular size to deliver an effective and efficient service ? |
| 27 | Or ( another possibility ) , one may judge one theme in scripture to be an organizing focus ( first stage ) , and then ( second stage ) bring that criterion to scripture , judging other themes to be of lesser importance or frankly wanting . |
| 28 | The world was never told by God that it could overcome the evil inherent in it , but Christ tells his disciples to be of good cheer because he has overcome the world . |
| 29 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 30 | If you served at RAF Valley , Mona , Bodorgan , Llandrog , Penrhos , Hell 's Mouth , Llanbedr or Tywyn , or if you would like to know more of the aviation heritage of North Wales , you might well find Roy Sloan 's researches to be of special interest . |