Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political and the economic were of course inseparable . |
| 2 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 3 | There are two themes in the liturgy of the Feast of St John : the first is of release — the opening of Anna 's previously barren womb and of Zacharias 's dumb mouth , the washing away of sin ; the second is of salvation — of baptismal rebirth , foreshadowings ended and prophecies fulfilled through the Coming of Christ . |
| 4 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 5 | The second was of a more theoretical nature , dealing with the constitution of salicylic acid . |
| 6 | While all the local authority construction of the 1940s was of very high quality for general needs , the late 1950s saw the first non-traditional units in the form of Wimpey 's point blocks built at Hunters and Murrays Closes in Percy Main . |
| 7 | Although the statistics are hardly firm , it would seem that by the end of the eighteenth century county rates , used mostly for gaols , criminal prosecution , constables and , to a smaller extent , bridge repair , aggregated only around £300,000 , but the levying of the parish rate for the relief of the poor was of much greater import . |
| 8 | The employment protection legislation of the 1970s was of no assistance to lesbians and gays . |
| 9 | The Letter of Aristeas with its determined proclamation of the sacred value of the LXX is of course another striking indication of the degree of independence which the Egyptian Jews reached in their religious life . |
| 10 | The latter is of interest only in that he still manages to stay alive given the muck he is reported to pour daily into his ailing system . |
| 11 | The latter is of particular significance , since it allows two way communication : input and output through an LCD screen , using a special pen . |
| 12 | As another type C arrangement indeed , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the latter is of a similar period to that of the London mosaic . |
| 13 | The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former . |
| 14 | The windows of the latter are of typical Early English design . |
| 15 | The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former . |
| 16 | She fawned over Horatia as if the latter were of the blood royal , her say brown eyes sliding away from his whenever he looked at her . |
| 17 | This was the thrust of her attack on ‘ hermeneutics ’ , whether the latter be of Arnoldian , Freudian , or ( reformist ) Marxist complexion . |
| 18 | While the middle single coil on the EG-2 is of regular design , the single coils on the EG-1 are designed especially to keep the noise down , and presumably also to emulate Gibson 's P-90 in picking up more of the vibrating string , thanks to some added width . |
| 19 | The two restaurants within the Majestic are of excellent quality , offering both table d'hote and a la carte . |
| 20 | Production shipments of the 68160 are of set for the fourth quarter ; no pricing at yet . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , some of the coffin furniture produced during the 1730s was of a high standard , though the designs were limited , rococo in style , and copied ad nauseam by a multitude of tin-plate manufacturers in London and Birmingham . |
| 22 | The effects of these depletions on the global ozone budget and the possibility of similar massive ozone reductions occurring over the Arctic are of prime interest . |
| 23 | However , looked at from the perspective of the 1980s , it is not at all clear that groups which styled themselves upon Mussolini 's movement in the 1920s were of greater significance than certain more obscure British nationalist organizations of the period , since these provided crucial financial and ideological legacies for later gener-ations of British fascists , most notably anti-semitism . |
| 24 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 25 | The first is of no value , and the second I would not touch with a barge pole . |
| 26 | The first is of familiarity . |
| 27 | There are two themes in the liturgy of the Feast of St John : the first is of release — the opening of Anna 's previously barren womb and of Zacharias 's dumb mouth , the washing away of sin ; the second is of salvation — of baptismal rebirth , foreshadowings ended and prophecies fulfilled through the Coming of Christ . |
| 28 | The first is of course that covering the plaintiff 's pain , suffering and loss of amenity . |
| 29 | The first was of my parents appealing for news of me and — of course — for my release . |
| 30 | The first was of Professor F. A. Lindemann , Viscount Cherwell [ q.v . ] , |