Example sentences of "[be] of [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I myself am of only minor nobility , you understand . |
| 2 | But these have mostly been of rather limited significance ( one concerned the supply of taxi cabs at Brighton station ) ; see Utton ( 1992 ) for a review . |
| 3 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 4 | If the walls belong to the cella , the surrounding portico walls could have been of much slighter construction , even to carry columns 12 ft high . |
| 5 | The player 's display would have been of as much interest to the watching Celtic manager , Liam Brady , as the distressing form of his opponents on Saturday . |
| 6 | Therefore , if we had taken our cue from these public styles , we would have produced a top-heavy account that would have been of only marginal importance to the social ‘ life ’ of the speech community . |
| 7 | Could anti-Semitism , so pivotal in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , have been of only minor significance in forming the bonds between Führer and people which gave the Third Reich its popular legitimation and plebiscitary base of acclamation ? |
| 8 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 9 | Such an undertaking must have been of very little value . |
| 10 | It may have been of more limited scope , for example , ‘ I refuse to have a blood transfusion , so long as there is an effective alternative . ’ |
| 11 | There are other problems , apart from the fact that Harrison 's evidence dates from 1790 and if there was a regular working pattern in Bristol it may have been of more recent origin than he suggests . |
| 12 | Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man 's widow . |
| 13 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 14 | I 'd been of less practical help , but Terry had encouraged me to make general criticisms of the scheme . |
| 15 | In a later study of economic growth in the USA , and Western European countries during the period 1950–62 , Denison found the minimum contribution of education to economic growth to have been of far less importance : 15 per cent for USA , 13 per cent for UK and Belgium , and the rates for the remaining six countries varied from 7 per cent for Norway and Italy , to 2 per cent for West Germany . |
| 16 | The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen . |
| 17 | Relationships in which the two individuals concerned are of exactly equal status are very unusual . |
| 18 | ‘ Head counts ’ of quangos are the more difficult because , as Hood ( 1979 , pp. 9–10 ) observes , ‘ the ‘ heads ’ involved are of enormously differing size and importance — on a scale more like the difference between the head of an ant and an elephant than the difference between one human head and another' . |
| 19 | The school systems , decentralized to puppet ‘ homelands ’ governments , are of even poorer quality than those provided by the DET . |
| 20 | Before dismantling the fence , it is wise to number the three wires as they are of slightly different lengths . |
| 21 | for example , in one test subjects are required to insert ball-bearings into holes in a cylinder ; the holes are of slightly different sizes ; the ball-bearings are of slightly different sizes ; and the cylinder is revolving . |
| 22 | for example , in one test subjects are required to insert ball-bearings into holes in a cylinder ; the holes are of slightly different sizes ; the ball-bearings are of slightly different sizes ; and the cylinder is revolving . |
| 23 | Now some relationships are of just this kind . |
| 24 | The most relevant comparison is probably with southern Italy , where there has been substantial depopulation and many individual agricultural holdings are of economically unviable size and highly fragmented . |
| 25 | The plastic zips are of reasonably good quality but small , with fiddly zip pulls on the pockets . |
| 26 | Of course , warranties and maintenance contracts are all very well , but — as customers of Ti'ko and Olympic Technology know to their cost — agreements with manufacturers are of precious little use if the company goes bust . |
| 27 | This method is best suited to materials that are of approximately equal thickness , and it works quite well with ‘ maiden cuttings ’ ( see page 99 ) used as rootstocks . |
| 28 | The newly-discovered sites are of particularly great importance for Jewish history because the Roman repression which followed the revolts of Bar-Giora and Bar-Kokhba mark the beginning of the Jewish diaspora . |
| 29 | Despite their often middle-class origins , these uprooted opponents of Fidel Castro , who have never gained the support they anticipated would enable them to return in triumph to their native land , find consolation in the arms of the Santeria spirits , which are of partly African origin . |
| 30 | Certain of the various inert gas isotopes have to be excluded , some because they are of sufficiently low mass to escape in appreciable quantities from the terrestrial planets , others because they are produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes of elements other than inert gases , and others for both reasons . |