Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cables and accessories that came with MainLan were of the cheap and cheerful variety . |
| 2 | Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order . |
| 3 | Apart from the deliberate references to Theodoric and Charlemagne , which are intended to show that Frederick Barbarossa was of the same mould as these great heroes , the description of the Kaiserslauten palace is especially interesting . |
| 4 | Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role . |
| 5 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 6 | Sir Frank Stenton was of the opinion that with Aethelbald 's accession ‘ the history of southern England enters upon a new phase ’ . |
| 7 | In his report into what is known as ‘ the Profumo Affair ’ in 1963 , Lord Denning was of the view that the term' ‘ subversive ’ should relate to ‘ people who would contemplate the overthrow of government by unlawful means ’ . |
| 8 | The memory that would always stay with the Lerskys was of the tiny Lieserl waddling along the platform . |
| 9 | Lawrance J. was of the same opinion and for the same reasons . |
| 10 | Cave J. was of the opinion that whether the judgment was satisfied or not , the respondent was , by reason of the agreement , not entitled to issue execution for any sum on the judgment . |
| 11 | Lord Kenyon was of the same opinion . |
| 12 | very little fighting in Derry was of the hand to hand nature . |
| 13 | His wife down in Syracuse was of the same opinion . |
| 14 | Dr Johnson was of the view that there were a lot of mouths , especially in the families with thirteen children , that God had forgotten to feed . |
| 15 | Whereas Jaq was of the Malleus and a daemonhunter . |
| 16 | As has been shown above , however , Fahreddin Acemi was of the period of Murad II and Mehmed II , not of Murad I ; and there is no record that he was ever kadi of Bursa . |
| 17 | Keynes 's lowest estimate for the minimum unemployment rate for interwar Britain was of the order of 5% ( see R. F. Kahn , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | No wonder the great common lawyer Blackstone was of the opinion that " the rigour and arbitrary proceedings of excise laws seem hardly compatible with the temper of a free nation " . |
| 19 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 20 | In Somerset , for example , they showed by the evidence of Domesday that Dulverton and Winford were of the ‘ ancient demesne ’ of the Crown of England , and therefore ought to remain in Exmoor Forest , according to the provisions of the Charter . |
| 21 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 22 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 23 | Jean-Claude was of the opinion that all Jews were rich , part of an international conspiracy and deserving , therefore , of whatever hideous fate was in store for them . |
| 24 | Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it . |
| 25 | Greg was of the generation which found television very good to think during , and he let his mind range freely over what he had recently learned . |
| 26 | As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence . |
| 27 | Jung was of the opinion that Freud 's greatest achievement probably ‘ consisted in taking neurotic patients seriously and entering into their peculiar individual psychology . |
| 28 | Like the others , Mr Minnah was of the Mende tribe , and an associate of the previous president , Dr Siaka Stevens . |
| 29 | For instance , Impallomeni was of the view that earlier classical law ignored whether a buyer had notice ( scientia ) of a trust , but in later law jurists such as Papinian did not . |
| 30 | The S.M.O. was of the opinion that this was the third , not second night , and that for twenty-four hours before he was knocked down the patch of consolidation had started forming in Bill Francis 's lung . |