Example sentences of "[noun] are of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 2 | ( It should be noted in passing that the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts are of little relevance here . |
| 3 | The facts of this case are of such gravity that a sentence of general deterrent is necessary , ’ said the judge . |
| 4 | Organic vegetables are of little use if their leaves are yellowing , their vitamins and minerals long departed . |
| 5 | The results from the simple syntactic processor are of little use to the semantic analysis , being simply a rating of the ‘ goodness ’ of fit of a word given its local syntactic environment . |
| 6 | Standards which do not enable valid and reliable assessment are of little value to end users . |
| 7 | Spelling rules are of little help , because if they are thorough enough to explain a pattern , they 're likely to be incomprehensible to the children . |
| 8 | of all grey geese identified in Sussex are of this species . |
| 9 | P-waves can be transmitted through any material ( sound waves are of this type ) , but S-waves can only be transmitted through solids . |
| 10 | In abandoning the sutures as a method of ageing , few features of the skull except the dentition are of much use for our purpose . |
| 11 | The concept of international power demarcates international politics as an autonomous sphere of action , and implies that ethical considerations are of little use in understanding the actions of states : |
| 12 | A sixteenth-century building with a high saddle-roof , the Chuechlihaus , houses the Heimatmuseum which has a collection of old Langnau pottery products ; it also has exhibits to illustrate the products and tools of the several local timber trades and crafts , which is particularly appropriate in a district where forestry and timber trades are of such importance . |
| 13 | Eyes are of little use , burrowing underground and often they have become covered in skin . |
| 14 | However , only about twenty per cent of residential homes in Flanders are of this type ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | The terranes are of several types and include slivers of oceanic crust , fragments of intra-oceanic island arcs and slices detached from unknown continental margins . |
| 16 | Other variables are of less importance . |
| 17 | This paper will consider the issue in the context of community work , in which the elements accentuated by Rothman are of less consequence and client participation has indisputably remained a primary value . |
| 18 | This evidence indicates that mortality data are of little use when trying to establish the prevalence of the dementing illnesses as they are almost certainly a significant underestimate of the true prevalence of the condition . |
| 19 | However , the conclusions drawn from the data are of some concern . |
| 20 | The limitations of QACs are of less significance when they are compounded with other products with which they can exert a synergistic effect . |
| 21 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |
| 22 | Many of the large Swedish industrial companies are of this type . |
| 23 | This project aims to discover which environmental effects are of most concern to a variety of groups , to incorporate those environmental effects into a microcomputer model for the assessment of energy supply and demand strategies , and to make the model available to those groups with an interest in energy . |
| 24 | Furthermore , comparison of radiation doses required to induce protection in the irradiated sporozoite model of pre-erythrocytic immunity has indicated that antigens expressed early in development in the liver are of most importance for protection . |
| 25 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 26 | S is also for SUBSTITUTE , which sugar and saccharine are of each other . |
| 27 | Pulse-generating species emit such short and irregular clicks that they rarely jam each other and most gregarious electric fish are of this type . |
| 28 | In one sense it can be argued that generalizations are of little use . |
| 29 | Some of the items in this Journal are of that nature . |
| 30 | Farnaby is at his best as a miniaturist ; his fantasias are of little account but such tiny gems as ‘ Giles Farnaby 's Dream ’ , ‘ His Rest ’ , ‘ Farnaby 's Conceit ’ and ‘ His Humour ’ are unique , and he was also a master of the art of variation-writing . |