Example sentences of "[noun] was of the [noun] " 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 | Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ? |
| 3 | Speed was of the essence and manpower was limited . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 7 | Talk was of the mysteries of tension ribbing … and men . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare . |
| 10 | Well , humiliation was of the mind . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role . |
| 16 | Shackleton et al. ( 1982 ) thought the thickness of Late Palaeozoic sediments eroded in the area of the West of England granites was of the order of 5 km . |
| 17 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 18 | Mr Punshon said it should be remembered that membership was of the organisation not the club . |
| 19 | Even here , this distance from the road and behind the protection of the barbed-wire wall , security was of the utmost . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period . |
| 23 | Sir Frank Stenton was of the opinion that with Aethelbald 's accession ‘ the history of southern England enters upon a new phase ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Geddes added that his group was of the view that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had failed to consult the Scottish people about water privatisation and was pursuing the matter in spite of it not being included in the Conservative election manifesto . |
| 25 | In his report into what is known as ‘ the Profumo Affair ’ in 1963 , Lord Denning was of the view that the term' ‘ subversive ’ should relate to ‘ people who would contemplate the overthrow of government by unlawful means ’ . |
| 26 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 27 | The most frequent criticism was of the food , and over this there was a difference between old people 's homes for which 26 per cent thought the food ‘ not so good ’ and nursing homes for which it was 7 per cent . |
| 28 | Although the court was of the view that these remaining grounds were arguable , it refused to relist the appeal . |
| 29 | Had it not been for the section , the court was of the view that the claim would have been defeated by volenti . |
| 30 | The Court was of the opinion that section 133 did not apply to the activation of the suspended sentence , as it was clear that when a sentencer activated a suspended sentence he did not ‘ impose ’ the sentence for the purpose of section 133 . |