Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With more than one fifth of the world 's population living in China , the agricultural industry there is of considerable interest , and collaborative research on agriculture could be of benefit to all the partners involved . |
| 2 | In more recent years , the example of Fleming 's discovery of penicillin is a good case of the almost accidental research which was of tremendous value . |
| 3 | Just outside the Upper Gate is the attractive Heiligblut ( Holy Blood ) pilgrimage chapel of 1674–5 , with a series of biblical scenes on its wooden ceiling which are of the period . |
| 4 | As a cultural formation it was of type ( iii ) , though there were overlaps to membership of political societies , within the broad formation ( e.g. , the Revolution Society ) . |
| 5 | What about those people of a low social class who are of a high moral class , what about them ? |
| 6 | A theoretical perspective which is of considerable value is put forward by Gorry and Scott Morton ( 1975 ) , who draw on the work of Anthony ( 1965 ) in the area of managerial activity and Simon 's ( 1966 ) analysis of decisions , to develop a sophisticated framework for management information systems . |
| 7 | This is the central issue which is of concern in Freud 's more sociological works . |
| 8 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 9 | The follow up questionnaire was sent to the parents of the 174 children with idiopathic chronic constipation who were of school age . |
| 10 | This dissolves the central paradox which is of the very essence of faith , and turns faith itself into an inheritance rather than a permanent passion of risk , commitment and obedience . |
| 11 | Embarrassment is under no obligation to be comic , though it is most naturally that , and as a fictional theme it is of inexhaustible power and seemingly unending appeal . |
| 12 | Folic acid itself is of great interest to anyone concerned with the formation of red and white blood cells , and with the abnormal and excessive formation of white cells in leukaemia . |
| 13 | To counteract this , one must consider growing few plants other than the all important submerged oxygenating plants , or else arresting the turbulence by placing beneath the fountain a large ring which is of greater diameter than the lower bowl . |
| 14 | All the same , the fact that we are consciously mathematical , that we consciously incorporate straight lines and rectangles and arcs of circles into our artifacts , that we measure things and reckon by numbers , does seem to be a very fundamental human characteristic which is of great importance for the way we organize our lives . |
| 15 | The house is built of rock-faced sandstone which is of the deepest pink , peculiar to this area , and its roofs are of patterned slate . |
| 16 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 17 | There are two buildings in Byzantine architecture which are of supreme importance constructionally and in design and which are also superb architecture . |
| 18 | We are coming to terms with a major sport which is of great interest to a great number of people . |
| 19 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 20 | Our representation of them as groups is an intellectual device for handling them , just as the people themselves use names and labels , but this does not correspond to the empirical reality which is of constant contact and flow between ‘ peoples ’ : a continuum rather than a series of separate but interlocking units . |
| 21 | Here there are thick deposits of iron ore near the base of some rocks of oolitic limestone which are of Jurassic age . |
| 22 | Whilst in the case of certain types of racked goods in which continuous fuel surfaces do not exist , automatic roof venting may be considered to be less essential , in the extreme case it is of great importance . |
| 23 | The main drawback of such workings was that by their very nature they were of only limited duration . |
| 24 | This is the Achilles ' heel of Abelard 's theory , because Christ 's death is only explicable if it saves us from a serious and dreadful predicament which is of eternal significance . |
| 25 | We shall find that it is the second and third of these recapitulations and expansions of the primal trauma which are of special relevance to an understanding of modern social conditions and present day ego-psychology . |
| 26 | Within such a context it is easier to see how a series of advances , retreats and confusing divisions can be explained as part of a general shift which is of wider significance than the accumulation of a mass of detailed incidents , each of which can only be fully explained in terms of its own unique genesis . |
| 27 | Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ . |
| 28 | In certain societies , spatial planning has been used to represent a sacred order which is of an ideal form , and within which actual human society attempts to exemplify certain principles , often creating tightly controlled urban populations ordered according to spatial dimensions such as left and right hands , verticality and circumambulation ( e.g. Geertz 1980 ; Wheatley 1971 ) . |
| 29 | This is a general principle which is of particular relevance to exchange rules . |
| 30 | First , the state is now in charge of vast amounts of administrative and political information which is of direct relevance to individuals . |