Example sentences of "it [be] of [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 2 | The result is naturally a concentration of erosion on the headlands , thus leading ultimately to a smoothing out of the coastline if it is of one rock type . |
| 3 | Smaller animals can therefore live where there is less food , provided that it is of high energy content . |
| 4 | Appropriately , it was of two water colours of the Slipper Chapel and the Priory which had been painted by Tess McNulty , one of our pilgrims . |
| 5 | I put a hand into the language space and drew the briefcase to the front ; and it was of black crocodile skin with gold clasps , as I 'd seen at Nottingham races . |