Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month 's lucky winners were of the Aerosol Science Centre , Winfrith and Printing Services , Culham |
| 2 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Workers in all the groups in all the areas were of the opinion that work and the organization through which it was carried out was inevitable and little could be done to alter it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shackleton et al. ( 1982 ) thought the thickness of Late Palaeozoic sediments eroded in the area of the West of England granites was of the order of 5 km . |
| 7 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 8 | Not all books borrowed from these libraries were of the Mills and Boon variety . |
| 9 | The trolley masts were of the Brecknell , Munro B/l type , but a late version which could be turned through the full circle . |
| 10 | My earliest memories were of the fruit trees . |
| 11 | One of Ginny 's earliest memories was of the contrast between the white of his shirt and shorts and the brown of his skin ; his legs and arms had been heavily muscled and covered with a sprinkling of dark hairs , and beads of sweat on his upper lip drained into his thin moustache . |
| 12 | The European Commission on Human Rights was of the view that seeking to persuade members of the armed forces to disobey military orders which rendered a particular person liable to prosecution for ‘ incitement to disaffection ’ properly justified a prosecution under Article 10 , paragraph 2 of the Convention . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His characters were of the Mata Hari type , and he was expert at revealing secrets of which nobody else was aware . |
| 15 | The systematic publication of coins from excavations began only in the twentieth century , and one of the most substantial early publications was of the coins recovered during the American excavations at Sardis in Asia Minor . |
| 16 | No , no but th erm erm , the only real difference was that lots and lots of the trolley buses were of the utility type . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | ( a ) The presumption Much of the early litigation about rent review clauses concentrated on the question whether limits were of the essence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ ' . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Wild phone calls were of the night : this , perhaps , was serious . |
| 25 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 28 | The other glossies were of the family . |
| 29 | There was no stairhead lamp and the wire mesh screens were of the Brush standard design . |
| 30 | 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 . |