Example sentences of "of [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since our sample was self-selected it is impossible to say what proportion of the total number of self-evaluation activities it represents , or whether the range of activities is in any way typical . |
| 2 | The mastery of skills is of little use if they can not be applied . |
| 3 | When you and I joined the force the majority of homicides were like that — family affairs , or at least concerned with intimate human relationships : legacies , jealousies , frustrated passions — always with a powerful personal element . |
| 4 | But will the flood of computers be of much use ? |
| 5 | For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts . |
| 6 | Finally , the effort required of readers is to some extent always dependent on the amount of energy they are prepared to expend in any given situation . |
| 7 | In other words , each group of problems is to some extent causative of the other groups . |
| 8 | Lots of audiences were like that . |
| 9 | Small scale studies indicate that households of this type are quite common , for example , for people of Pakistani origin living in Britain ( Anwar , 1985 ) and this is reflected in official statistics by evidence about the overall size of households : in 1985 , whilst less than one in ten white households contained more than four people , where people classified themselves as Pakistani , or Bangladeshi , just over 50 per cent of households were of that size ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 45 , table 2. 9 ) . |
| 10 | Many of the records of insects represent an extension of the known range of the particular species : three species of bees , five of aculeate wasps and 20 of hoverflies are among many new records for Leicestershire ; the cuckoo wasp , Vespula austriaca , is new to central England ; there is the most southerly record of a calliphorid fly , which is common in Scotland ; at least eight species of Ichneumonidae and five of Serphidae are new to Britain ; and two ichneumonids are probably new to science . |
| 11 | 59% of respondents were against this proposal , of whom 86% were sole practitioners . |
| 12 | The ecology of islands is in many ways special : few species ; no large mammalian predators ; large versions of creatures that are generally small , and small versions of creatures that are generally large . |
| 13 | As noted above , the simple division of hazards is between those which are natural and those which are technological or human-induced . |
| 14 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 15 | Rural Wales ( excluding the urbanized south and north-east ) provides a contrast with the Scottish Highlands , as here a large number of parishes were without any public transport at all . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of men are like that , ’ observed Betty . |
| 17 | Staff in some departments discussed the appraisal but the writing of reports was in most cases undertaken solely by the head of department : |
| 18 | And the other thing of course was that one movement , which took about one second , right and you would n't have a loom , one movement of this machine where the needles go up , take the yarn , knitted a hundred stitches , two hundred stitches , what whatever number of stitches were on that particular piece of fabric , the width . |
| 19 | The Mount of Olives was in that allowed area . |
| 20 | Looking more closely at the authorities who directly budgeted money , 90% of counties were in this group , and 73% of Outer London authorities ( see Table 18 ) . |
| 21 | In 1985 , 55% of all people aged over 85 lived alone , but for men it was only 37% while 61% of women were in this position . |
| 22 | What is true of bivalves is without much doubt true of the majority of benthic invertebrates . |
| 23 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 24 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |