Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century .
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