Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 2 | Whether a contract is of a standard type or a ‘ one-off ’ , it must contain certain elements , otherwise it can not be enforced in the courts . |
| 3 | Whether or not a contract is of a personal nature is determined on objective grounds and depends on all the circumstances having regard to the nature of the contract and the subject matter of the rights to be assigned and there is no general rule . |
| 4 | Such a division is of no little interest today , as politicians debate the extent of European political and economic union , and of Britain 's involvement in Europe . |
| 5 | SAVE 's contention was that the entrance to a park was of crucial importance , however distant it was from the house itself . |
| 6 | The radiating ribs of a fan are of equal length and the bounding line is in the form of a semicircle . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if a term is of a type commonly found in the business , and is not unusually onerous , there is no need for special notice . |
| 8 | Whether or not a concentration is of a ‘ Community dimension , is an important question and determines whether or not the concentration will be subject to the scrutiny of Community or domestic authorities . |
| 9 | Japlac complies with BS 5665 Part 3 1989 and the European Toy Safety Standard EN71 Part 3 1988 , enabling you to give an exceptionally glossy finish to toys , nursery furniture , climbing frames , and indeed any surface where the safety of a child is of tantamount importance . |
| 10 | It is sometimes found that operations to remove congenital cataracts ( soft opacities in the lens ) when a child is of school age are disappointing in that full vision is not effective because the appropriate stage in development of visual perception has been passed while the opacities were still present . |
| 11 | The actions of such a council are of general public importance and the free discussion of their activities is one aspect of the right of freedom of expression which is of the utmost importance . |
| 12 | The truth is , few people believe that revelations are going to be made to them in dreams — and even on the rare occasions that an individual really felt a dream was of overwhelming " significance " , the so-called dream-books could only taken in the most gullible . |
| 13 | Such a test is of obvious value to the shoemaker and is the correct test to use but it is not an easy one to analyse in terms of material as opposed to constructional variables . |
| 14 | Only with line B , and with its last word , is it made clear that the image of the whole couplet is of sacrifice ; the burning of line A must be of wood upon the sacrificial altar . |
| 15 | Within each realm there is a hierarchy , so in very general terms in the physical sphere a skin rash or a cold is of minor significance whereas a heart , lung or brain disease is much more serious . |
| 16 | High-tech tools are of little help here , and even a saw is of limited use : it 's a job for mallet and chisel . |
| 17 | In Section 3.3 an alternative definition given for a geodesic was of a curve across space with no component of curvature in that space . |
| 18 | Such a picture is of necessity tragic , and this " tragic " dialectical interaction between the objective social forces crushing men and women in their everyday lives , and the dynamic subjective response of those same men and women refusing to be crushed , has as its counterpart a " tragic " dialectical interaction between revolutionary writer and oppressed reading public . |
| 19 | Such a development is of doubtful desirability . |
| 20 | The pollutions which escape the field officer 's shroud of privacy are those which are so noticeable that they attract widespread public attention , or those where a complainant is of such status that he may enjoy direct contact with senior staff . |
| 21 | A guarantee is of value only if it is honoured . |
| 22 | The conventional image of a ceramic is of a hard brittle material used to make items such as crockery and tiles . |
| 23 | Things which affect the person as a whole are of much greater importance than those affecting only a part . |
| 24 | A Bill may be ‘ hybrid ’ , i.e. whilst the Bill as a whole is of general application , it contains particular provisions applying to particular persons specifically . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the monetarist recommends that control of the money supply should be the major concern of the monetary authorities and that such a policy is of paramount importance for the conduct of macroeconomic policy . |
| 26 | In one review Apollinaire referred to ‘ the very abstract painting of Mondrian ’ , and added in another , ‘ his trees and his portrait of a woman are of great interest . ’ |
| 27 | Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin . |
| 28 | Acidity and calcium content of a lake are of paramount importance to fish health . |
| 29 | Among the most prominent London citizens of the period , those who were elected mayor more than once , only a minority were of certain London origin , such as Thomas Knolles ( 1399–1400 , 1410–11 ) , Nicholas Wotton ( 1415–16,1430–31 ) and Henry Barton ( 1416–17 , 1428–29 ) . |
| 30 | Our knowledge of the angles of a triangle is of this ‘ demonstrative ’ sort , since here one has to ‘ find out some other angles , to which the three angles of a triangle have an equality ; and finding those equal to two right ones , [ one ] comes to know their equality to two right ones ’ . |