Example sentences of "[was/were] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 1973 nearly all the fast growing services were of the type used by other industries . |
| 2 | However applicable the distinction — and Walsh 's characterization of the " provincial " muftis — may be in the period after the end of the sixteenth century , the position regarding the muftis in the earlier period is rather more complex , for here one must distinguish three classes : first , the Mufti ; second , muftis of a number of cities and large towns , who certainly were of the ulema class ; and third , though evidence regarding them is hard to come by , one may perhaps hypothesize a class of small-town , even village muftis , who may have been , but very possibly were not , of the ulema class . |
| 3 | It is significant that , in an age when belief in miracles , extreme saintliness and revelation were of the stuff of daily life , so many of her contemporaries believed Margery to be mentally ill ; only , probably , the superstitious , the credulous and the ignorant believed her to be a genuine mystic . |
| 4 | Wild phone calls were of the night : this , perhaps , was serious . |
| 5 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 6 | What is being done is to argue that the failures were of the order to suggest that Bukharin had been correct in his prediction before the event , not after it . |
| 7 | Black-and-white Dutch cattle from eastern and western Friesland and from northern Holland were present in southern Sweden in the eighteenth century but the main imports were of the West Friesland type . |
| 8 | Her shoes were of the kind then called ward shoes , with low heels , one strap , and a little metal star on the front for ornamentation . |
| 9 | When enquiries were monitored in detail between September and November 1987 , one third of the cases brought to the welfare worker were of the kind that the CAB regularly deals with and the other two thirds were immigration enquiries . |
| 10 | As a result , ‘ governmental assemblies , whose chief activities were of the kind which ought to be limited by law , became able to command whatever they pleased simply by calling their commands ‘ law ’ ' . |
| 11 | Now these houses were of the kind that when you walk in through the door at the front you go into a l sitting room , through the next door is what can be a kitchen cum living room , and the staircase is n't immediately obvious but what it is is it 's a door that looks like a cupboard . |
| 12 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |
| 13 | No , no but th erm erm , the only real difference was that lots and lots of the trolley buses were of the utility type . |
| 14 | Not all books borrowed from these libraries were of the Mills and Boon variety . |
| 15 | There was no stairhead lamp and the wire mesh screens were of the Brush standard design . |
| 16 | My earliest memories were of the fruit trees . |
| 17 | type combined tail lamp and service number stencil carriers on the underside of the canopy against the head of the stairs , which were of the quarter turn direct type . |
| 18 | My friends and I were of the resistance . |
| 19 | The late Babylonian astronomers of the fourth and later centuries BC studied the motions of the sun and planets with great care and mathematical ingenuity , but their most detailed investigations were of the moon because the calendar was moon-based . |
| 20 | Convinced as they were of the unity and uniqueness of God , the disciples became confident that he was present in Jesus . |
| 21 | His characters were of the Mata Hari type , and he was expert at revealing secrets of which nobody else was aware . |
| 22 | Last month 's lucky winners were of the Aerosol Science Centre , Winfrith and Printing Services , Culham |
| 23 | Putting aside the postcards that were sent to the Secretary of State , how many of the 226 written submissions were of the quality that he desired ? |
| 24 | Aisled barns are of the order of 9–15m ( 29–49ft ) wide ; a simple triangular truss could be made to span a building 10m ( 33ft ) wide , but most ‘ single-cell ’ barns were of the width defined above and would certainly not exceed 7.5m ( 24–1/2ft ) in width . |
| 25 | Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) . |
| 26 | His garments were of the forest and he seemed a part of it as he sat there on a tree-stump , small , compact , a broken shape of browns , fawns , russets and greens . |
| 27 | Originally many cattle in Ayrshire were black with a white stripe on the back and white flanks and faces , and were of the Highland or Galloway type , but these were locally displaced by Dutch cattle imported between 1750 and 1780 , with ( it is rumoured ) a few Alderneys coming into Scotland in 1756 . |
| 28 | Whether you were of the left or of the right , for 40 years , you knew which side you were supposed to be on , and there were few ideological dilemmas . |
| 29 | equipment , particularly in regard to such matters as route board brackets and the destination boxes on the ends of the car were of the L.C.C . |
| 30 | Thus , when Remedios the Beauty disappears , the narrative records the fact that outsiders were of the opinion that she had run off with a man and that the story of her ascent into heaven was an invention of her family to cover up the scandal . |