Example sentences of "be of [art] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
2 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
3 | I do n't know the comparable figure for a willow seed or an ant , but it will be of the same order of staggeringness . |
4 | The masters in painting , Reid says , ‘ know how to make the objects appear to be of the same colour by making their picture really of different colours ’ . |
5 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |