Example sentences of "[be] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that information about food obtained by following others was most available to a given individual when it appears to be of least importance . |
| 2 | Whatever you do at least be sure to make it stupendously high ; let it be of all columns in the world the most lofty . ’ |
| 3 | Is n't this is an extraordinary situation , n here is a nurse , a a you know a a kind caring woman , she takes a drug and yet she must be of all people the one person to say , I 'm having a side effect . |
| 4 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 5 | These promise to be of such importance that I shall briefly relate them here , before journeying north . |
| 6 | Why this should be of such importance in the minds of you and me , and all the others from the world of the nineteen-forties I do not know . |
| 7 | In the reader example , the fact that the person is female may be of such insignificance that it is not even included as an attribute . |
| 8 | Unlike an industrial accident involving a single emission source , the pollutants contributing to an urban smog are emitted from numerous diverse sources and may be of many types . |
| 9 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
| 10 | Heeding Lady Barber 's wish that the ‘ purchases for the Collection shall be of that standard of quality required by the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection ’ , the Trustees have succeeded in acquiring over the years a group of paintings , drawings , sculptures , and objet d'art of exceptional merit , a number of them undisputed masterpieces . |
| 11 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 12 | No matter how serious an infringement there might be of that act they are not subject to any sort of criminal offence . |
| 13 | This is shown in percentile bands with the fiftieth percentile line shown in the middle ( i.e. fifty out of one hundred children at that age will be of that weight or height ) . |
| 14 | Were it not for the material in the reports of Hansard to which your Lordships have been referred , I , too , would still be of that view , for although I recognise that in popular parlance with provision to one individual of a service which is , in any event , being provided for reward to many others may be said to cost the provider little or nothing , ‘ cost ’ in accountancy terms is merely a computation of outgoing expenditure without reference to receipts . |
| 15 | For Locke , then , ‘ general words signify … a sort of thing ’ ; and they do this by being a sign of an abstract idea or nominal essence in the mind , ‘ to which idea , as things existing are found to agree , so they come to be ranked under that name ; or … be of that sort ’ . |
| 16 | It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race . |
| 17 | It should be stressed that since the subject of social studies is society , and particularly individuals and social groups within society , it is difficult to accept that women as a group can be of little concern to its practitioners . |
| 18 | Demographics , for instance , may be of little concern to innovators in fundamental industrial processes like steel making , although Mergenthaler 's Linotype machine became successful primarily because there were not enough skilled typesetters available to satisfy a mass market . |
| 19 | By the same token , new knowledge may be of little relevance to someone innovating a social instrument to satisfy a need that changing demographics or tax laws have created . |
| 20 | However , simply to accord casual workers a dependent employee status would be of little relevance to them . |
| 21 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 22 | They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces , but in the circumstances that would be of little profit . |
| 23 | And , by itself , the ban — though symbolically disturbing — would be of little significance in the context of American scientific and academic strength . |
| 24 | With the wide availability of private transport their location may be of little significance unless tile primary demand is for retirement homes , when prospective purchasers will be heavily dependent on local services . |
| 25 | However , if you are merely a dabbler in the drawings game then having access to the full US Geological Survey topographic patterns , architectural and other standards may well be of little significance . |
| 26 | This would be of little significance if the Chronicle in question were not the only source to record some important episodes . |
| 27 | TO most people Yorkshire Television 's takeover of ( or merger with ) Tyne Tees Television will be of little significance beyond the changes they will see on screen . |
| 28 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |