Example sentences of "[prep] be of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell me , my lady — is it mere courtesy that makes the bells ring , that makes moonlight of a sudden more desirable than sunlight and makes one yearn for this Twelfth Night to be of the past ? |
| 2 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 3 | Because were on not going to be of the scale that you were suggesting |
| 4 | He was thinking how unconscious she seemed now to be of the awkwardness of their encounter . |
| 5 | Where Methodism succeeded locally it tended to be of the brand , Lady Huntingdon 's , which appealed most to middling townsfolk . |
| 6 | ‘ Purposive sampling ’ occurs when a researcher chooses a particular group or place to study because it is known to be of the type that is wanted . |
| 7 | Sometimes my sisters would play the piano but the music had to be of the kind suitable for Sunday . |
| 8 | Now if the intention is to elicit authentic behaviour corresponding to that of the natural language user , then learners need to be primed with purpose before they are required to give evidence of understanding , and indeed the evidence itself has to be of the kind which would emerge as a natural outcome . |
| 9 | Secondly it says that for pedestrian severance , that changes have to be of the degree of thirty percent before they become s significant . |
| 10 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 11 | The door was permitted to be of the cottage order , double , the bottom half , lower than that of a stable door , was designed to keep children in and chickens out — not that chickens were approved , their appearance was not conducive to the small dignity of the Gate Lodge . |
| 12 | Including the small flocks , totalling 100 birds or fewer , occurring on ponds other than those listed on page 86 , the total wintering population of the county appears to be of the order of 1,000 to 1,400 birds . |
| 13 | In addition to the figures tabulated , a total of some 100–200 birds is usually recorded each winter on other ponds , and the present wintering population of Sussex seems to be of the order of 1,000–2,000 birds . |
| 14 | So the final doses are likely to be of the order of 4 rems . |
| 15 | This potential demand is estimated to be of the order of 600,000 , and if it becomes clear that the housing market has bottomed out and house prices are rising once more , it could provide significant support to the housing market . |
| 16 | In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% . |
| 17 | But even if not , mass lost from evolved bulge stars , expected to be of the order of 0.2 solar masses M and ; per year , will find itself on self-intersecting orbits , and will fall toward the centre . |
| 18 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 19 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 20 | There is no precise figure available about employment in the opencast coal industry , but the number is likely to be of the order of 17,000 . |
| 21 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 22 | Can I come back Mr Donson , or will that , and I take it , alright , I understand the point you are making about the long term solution and size , but if the panel were to be persuaded that to be a viable solution the settlement had , in the end , and I 'm not going to define where the end is , almost certainly beyond two thousand and six , that the settlement would need to be of the order of five thousand dwellings . |
| 23 | At best , GDP growth in the Community resulting from the internal market programme is estimated to be of the order of 6 per cent . |
| 24 | For medium- and long-term bonds , spreads which used to be of the order of 4-8 ticks are now more likely to be 2-4 ticks . |
| 25 | The essences she chose tended to be of the wood or resinous families — sandalwood , cedarwood , frankincense and myrrh , heightened with rose or ylang-ylang , occasionally clary-sage . |
| 26 | The metric in this region may be taken to be of the form ( 6.20 ) , but with the metric functions U , V , W and M all depending on u only . |
| 27 | Instead royal power passed now to Alhred , a representative , according to the Anglian genealogies , of a quite separate line of descent from Ida though the way one annalist observes that Alhred was said by some to be of the lineage of Ida implies that he was regarded by others as an intruder into the kingship ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 28 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |
| 29 | And my Will is that William Moore ( Carpenter if living ) shall make my Coffin and that the same shall be covered with Black Cloth and nailed with White Nails and to be of the value of Five Pounds or thereabouts . |
| 30 | The rules of Equity as to stipulations about time and other provisions which would not be held by Equity to be of the essence of the contract , are to prevail in all cases . |