Example sentences of "[am/are] of [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board .
2 Liver sausage may be firm for slicing or smooth for spreading and most of the continental varieties are of the latter type .
3 Most actors in soap operas are of the latter school .
4 This is zero only if the distribution is monodisperse , that is , all molecules are of the same size , and we have which is .
5 A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex .
6 If two Discus lash their back quarters against each other , then you can assume these are of the same sex .
7 Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character .
8 The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity .
9 The idea of a view and the vision of Boullee are of the same order of thought and sight .
10 The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these .
11 The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological .
12 These concentrations are of the same order as those found in the plasma of patients taking 5-ASA preparations orally ( 10–15 µm ) and are far lower than those required to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , lipoxygenase , or the binding of FMLP to neutrophils ( IC 5 10 , 6 , and >5 mM respectively ) or those found within the colonic lumen of these patients ( 10–20 mM ) .
13 When two descriptions are of the same type , plural reference is enhanced , regardless of syntactic condition , and regardless of whether the two descriptions are names or noun phrases .
14 But random fluctuations in the direction of conversion , or a bias in the direction of conversion , eventually ensures that all copies of a gene family in all individuals are of the same type .
15 All the attributes are of the same type .
16 Some of the project management variables are of the same type as the operations data , that is , numerical .
17 Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors .
18 Accordingly , futures contracts will not be investments of the same kind as debt securities or even contracts for differences , although SFA may perhaps agree that they are of the same kind as contracts for differences for this purpose ; in practice , however , any dealer who normally deals in futures contracts is usually likely to deal in contracts for differences in any event .
19 The same is true today , nowhere more starkly , for example , than on the border between Mexico and the United States ( where the inhabitants on both sides are of the same origin , culture and language ) .
20 In Figure 4.13 LECTURER and SUBJECT are known as ‘ siblings ’ because they are of the same level but of different types .
21 We are of the same blood , the same language , ’ he says .
22 You are of the same blood as us , sworn to protect Minginish .
23 He is willing to extend his generosity to people who mean something to him or are of the same religion .
24 not all tobacco leaves are of the same quality ( or size ) ;
25 It 's a plea which we suggest should make the timetable serve the child and not the reverse , and so what we 're doing is we 're saying to children erm ‘ Yes , you are of the same worth , you are of equal value , you should have the same care , love attention and the same resources ’ .
26 ‘ We are of the same Line you and I , ma'am , and although I have not the ancient Samhailt , I understand it .
27 Whether the mother or the father is younger or if they are of the same age , has little effect on the infants ' survival chances , in so far as both parents are in the age most favourable to procreate healthy infants .
28 Erm many of my officers erm indeed all of them are of the same mind .
29 The rubber liners are of the same material as used by farmers for irrigation lagoons and by local authorities for sailing and boating lakes .
30 Different horses communicate in different ways , although those that live together or are of the same family are more likely to communicate in the same way .
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