Example sentences of "[be] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 3 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
| 4 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 5 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 6 | Without exception , the show 's directors are all under 30 , as are most of the contributors , and Jason Rebello looks barely old enough to order a drink . |
| 7 | Where are most of the shallow mines ? |
| 8 | In which group , or category , of industry are most of the factories on the Treforest industrial estate ? |
| 9 | In which parts of the coalfield are most of the old shallow pits which have been closed ? |
| 10 | I know you 're a grown woman but so are most of the others who lurch their way down the not-so-primrosy path to the Betty Ford Clinic . ’ |
| 11 | Where you have your main account depends very much on where you are most of the time . |
| 12 | Are most of the people on this estate white ? |
| 13 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 14 | Some Orfe are also available which are basically of the golden variety , but which have varying amounts of black on them . |
| 15 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 16 | Mental symptoms arising in this way are generally of the greatest importance when selecting the most similar remedy . |
| 17 | Tunnel linings on the British side are generally of the expanded grouted type used successfully in the 1973–75 project but in poorer ground cast iron linings are used . |
| 18 | These aids are generally of the ‘ try all possible combinations of … ’ variety and therefore demand excessive processing time besides inhibiting the use of common sense — the most valuable of all data analysis tools . |
| 19 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 20 | The stillness , the poise , of perfect symmetry are not of the everyday world . |
| 21 | Ryle 's point is that , since the terms ‘ mind ’ and ‘ body ’ are not of the same category , it is illegitimate to relate them logically in this way . |
| 22 | His politics are not of the kind which nurture nastiness ; he was fashioned for finer things . |
| 23 | One can not overlook the fact that you yourself are not of the nobility — let alone of royal blood ! ’ |
| 24 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 25 | He believes longer climbs such as Jibé Tribout 's Just Do It ( see Reports ) , Which rely more heavily on stamina than power , are not of the same order of difficulty . |
| 26 | It is also found among religious groups who love one another , but are hostile towards those who are not of the same religious group , or sect , as themselves . |
| 27 | The strain of the foster colony is chosen for good mothering ability and preferably the coat colour should be different from the animals to be fostered , or the mating arranged so that the natural young of the foster mother are not of the same coat colour as the pups to be fostered . |
| 28 | What prompts it is the truth that many of the general propositions fundamental to science , most notably many of those dignified with the name of laws , are not of the form of ordinary causal generalizations or ordinary nomic but non-causal generalizations . |
| 29 | That is , they are not of the form exemplified at the end of the last section when it was said that if cc was a causal circumstance for e , then there is the true generalization that all circumstances of the type of cc , even if certain other events or conditions occur , are followed by events of the same type as e . |
| 30 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |