Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] of this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 2 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 3 | Ninety nine per cent of our work was of this nature but the other one per cent of excitement seemed to compensate for the disappointments . |
| 4 | The sculpture of St John Nepomuk on the façade is of this date . |
| 5 | An important part of parliament 's business concerned affairs of state : decisions about royal marriages , war and trade were of this kind . |
| 6 | Until about five years ago most boats in general club use were of this sort . |
| 7 | In many family-run businesses , the source of authority is of this kind . |
| 8 | Most of the difficulties with the financial category were of this nature , and consequently not within the power of the defined problem-owner for this situation . |
| 9 | If the final syllable is of this type , the stress will usually be placed on the first syllable . |
| 10 | The only two recorded and monitored giant earthquakes in history were of this type — in Ecuador in 1906 and Japan in 1933 . |
| 11 | The East African Rift System is of this type and its interpretation as an incipient site of plate rupture is further supported by its continuity with the divergent plate boundaries of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden . |
| 12 | English is of this type , as can be seen in any multiple language notice , say on an international flight . |
| 13 | In the section on specific speech systems , we shall see under what conditions the speech search problem is of this type . |
| 14 | In brick churches the whole construction was of this material , though interior wall facings , capitals and columns were of marble . |
| 15 | If it is assumed that the Earth 's magnetic field was of this form in the past , then it is possible to estimate the position of the magnetic pole for rocks of known ages ( dated by radiometric methods ) by measuring their palaeomagnetism . |
| 16 | If the break-clause is of this kind , the party entitled to break may equally need flexibility in his choice of time at which to exercise the power . |