Example sentences of "[is] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |
| 2 | In this respect it supplements , rather than replaces , publications of the past such as the 1983 SAVE/CAMRA report and detailed regional studies such as Claire Hunt 's of 1988 . |
| 3 | Again , local authorities vary , but probably not more than 3 or 4 , including any under-5 's of your own . |
| 4 | A SPECIAL brew was produced by Moorhouse 's of Burnley last month for the wedding of the company 's sales manager Carolynne Brammer to Barrie Pepper chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers . |
| 5 | ‘ If anyone wanted to sell their piece , and we can see it 's of sufficient quality or by a popular artist , we 'll give an evaluation . |
| 6 | And of the tribulations of his personal life , which were in fact grievous : ‘ It 's of no consequence . |
| 7 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 8 | It does not matter whether or not DRG makes sellotape or Basildon Bond — it 's of no consequence to anybody if somebody else makes them . ’ |
| 9 | She excelled in playing ruthlessly calculating bitch-goddesses , clawing their way to wealth , security and power : eg as Mildred , the sluttish Cockney waitress who enslaves sensitive Leslie Howard in John Cromwell 's adaptation of Somerset Maugham 's Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) , the role in which she made her reputation ; as Jezebel , flouting the decorous conventions of the antebellum South in William Wyler 's 1938 melodrama of that name ; and as the indefatigably scheming Regina , one of her most memorable creations , in Wyler 's 1941 film version of Lillian Hellman 's The Little Foxes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | YORK HOUSE 13 October : The Duke of Kent , as Vice Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board , this morning visited Colman 's of Norwich and , later , visited Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education , Norfolk . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , that 's of Edna . |
| 13 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 14 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 15 | Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order . |
| 16 | THE Lloyd 's of London insurance market has an unhappy knack of slipping on banana skins . |
| 17 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 18 | THE £11BILLION a year Lloyd 's of London insurance market is abandoning rules forcing underwriters to specialise in particular types of business so as to compete more effectively in Europe and against the big insurance companies . |
| 19 | THE Lloyd 's of London insurance market has an unhappy knack of slipping on banana skins . |
| 20 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 21 | THE £11BILLION a year Lloyd 's of London insurance market is abandoning rules forcing underwriters to specialise in particular types of business so as to compete more effectively in Europe and against the big insurance companies . |
| 22 | REPRESENTATIVES of 1,600 Lloyd 's of London names who lost hundreds of millions of pounds through syndicates run by Mr Dick Outhwaite yesterday appealed for an out of court settlement of a threatened legal wrangle . |
| 23 | Lloyd 's of London |
| 24 | HAUNTED by catastrophes past , Lloyd 's of London faces a bleak future . |
| 25 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 26 | At Lloyd 's of London insurance market , 3,000 names ( investors ) are being asked to come up with £100m ( $170m ) . |
| 27 | To read Gregory of Tours ' History of the Franks or Bede 's of the English people , or a poem like Beowulf , is to experience a world in which the new and the traditional , in culture and in religion , in law and institutions , are inextricable . |
| 28 | Again , it 's of paramount importance to keep an overview so that you can gear each aspect towards achieving the objective . |
| 29 | ANOTHER cliff-hanging week for Lloyd 's of London opens tomorrow , when solicitor Michael Freeman resumes his High Court battle for 820 names to stop Lloyd 's drawing on their deposits to pay claims from several loss-stricken syndicates . |
| 30 | A CONSORTIUM of 48 syndicates at Lloyd 's of London has been formed to insure farmers against problems with their crops . |