Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb mod] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Stuart Mill had claimed ( Rogers 1964 : 238 ) that pleasure could be of a carnal nature or of a ‘ higher ’ kind . |
| 2 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 3 | This is shown in percentile bands with the fiftieth percentile line shown in the middle ( i.e. fifty out of one hundred children at that age will be of that weight or height ) . |
| 4 | The data are the shadow and , though description of that shadow can be of interest , it is the understanding of the source — the state of nature — that is the object of statistical analysis . |
| 5 | That possibility will be of little consolation to you now , when you hear and see her dictating to her friends . |