Example sentences of "are of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The church is gray ; the cemetery crosses are of white marble . |
| 2 | ‘ Hotels here are of an international standard , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 4 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 5 | Thus , the use of anthropological ideas of social marginality and the construction of gender and masculinity are of primary use in the analysis of such actions , revealing the depth of concern with bodily form which structures considerable areas of police thinking . |
| 6 | Concepts of social movement are therefore synonymous with problems of social change , for they are antagonistic to conservative beliefs ; and this gives a further insight into why the idea of social research is antithetical to police thought and has seditious connotations for an institution in which metaphors of stasis are of paramount importance . |
| 7 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 8 | These recitations are of crucial importance , not only religiously ( whereby the reciter ‘ reactivates ’ the stories , the traditions , the revelation ) but socially , in integrating the participants into a unity with them — as their stories and traditions , from which strength and morale were drawn . |
| 9 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 10 | Since these states of affairs are of the essence of human perceptual consciousness and , therefore , of the human mind , it must follow that there are non-physical states of affairs essential to the human mind . |
| 11 | In other words , the representations which exist before cognitive ‘ representations ’ ( in the ‘ representational theory of mind ’ sense ) are of the input system variety . |
| 12 | These data are of great theoretical significance within cognitive neuropsychology . |
| 13 | The filters are of non stick nylon and singed polyester , filtering out particles down to 0.4 microns . |
| 14 | Most timber colours are of somewhat muted hues and generally very subtle ( though not often dull ) , but can vary enormously from one another in tone value . |
| 15 | I would imagine that most chairs made by craftsmen are of the spindled variety , from the Windsor to the Shaker and many shades in between . |
| 16 | The main parts are of mahogany , but the spindles are lighter wood , possibly ash or yew ? |
| 17 | Sectors are of course the most significant creation of the 1980s . |
| 18 | Such branch lines are of course vulnerable to changes in output level or distribution policy of their users . |
| 19 | Note that wall and floor types are of different thicknesses , just like ordinary ceramic tiles . |
| 20 | Modern ignition coils are of low inductance with ballast resistors for improved cold starting ; inductive discharge circuits , as opposed to the older capacitive discharge types , require the discharge of typically 6A , a bipolar transistor needing safe-operating-area clamps , which increase both cost and dissipation . |
| 21 | Thus in a letter to his father of 3 June 1913 , all the names are of people who figure in Mrs Lowndes 's memoirs : |
| 22 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 23 | ‘ Some systems serve markets in only one member state , while others , specialising in cerain types of instruments , are of European importance , ’ he stresses . |
| 24 | RESEARCH shows that a child 's recall is usually accurate , and errors are of omission rather than commission , Dr Danya Glaser , a consultant child psychiatrist , said . |
| 25 | If you compare the transport of PCBs with that of a 5,000-gallon tanker of petrol , or liquid petroleum gas — or any of the hazardous chemicals which are routinely trundling about our roads — PCBs are of a very low order of toxicity or risk . |
| 26 | The problems faced by the accountancy profession are of its own making . |
| 27 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |
| 28 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 29 | THE Inland Revenue has decreed that both the ordinary and the preference shares of Sound Diffusion , the electrical company that went into receivership in December , are of ‘ negligible value ’ for taxation purposes , writes Jason Nisse . |
| 30 | Shares worthless : The Inland Revenue has said that ordinary and preference shares of Sound Diffusion are of ‘ negligible value ’ for taxation purposes . |