Example sentences of "be of a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 2 | Golf clubs can rest assured that our members are of a standard as suggested by their handicap certificate and not being confronted with a ‘ worthless piece of paper . ’ |
| 3 | The company 's predicament and that of its 5,500 employees in the UK are of a kind that would respond to sympathetic treatment intelligently applied by the Government — the kind of assistance , in short , given by a previous Tory administration which nationalised Rolls Royce to save it . |
| 4 | Most tone-units are of a type that we call simple , and the sort that we call compound are not discussed in this chapter . |
| 5 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 6 | Beautifully made and beautifully decorated , Kamares vessels are of a quality and refinement never again to be achieved in the Aegean world . |
| 7 | We shall begin to see in this and the next five chapters that the evils and problems of modernity are of an intensity and subtlety unimaginable a mere two hundred years ago . |
| 8 | For the changes that threaten this country , either from a majority Labour government or one kept in power by the Liberal-Democrats , are of an enormity that still has not sunk in . |
| 9 | Because most of the lawyers and judges are of an age where they 've considered , or are already , divorced . |
| 10 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 11 | Mother-of-so-many said : ‘ You 're of an age and you could do worse . |
| 12 | Ideally , the marker trees would be of a species that was foreign to , or rare in , the area , and easy to distinguish by form and size at all seasons . |
| 13 | The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event . |
| 14 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 16 | They should also be of a type that has simple and quickly altered bridle trimming . |
| 17 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 18 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 19 | The subject matter will be of a general and commercial nature . |
| 20 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 21 | The males to be vasectomized should be of a strain or genotype with a good breeding performance . |
| 22 | Having arrived in the dead quiet of the afternoon , I had the place to myself which was fortunate since all 30 prints were of a scale that demanded close contemplation . |
| 23 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 24 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 25 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 26 | Scotland had papers like the The Scotsman and Glasgow Herald that were too Scottish to be ‘ national ’ yet were of a quality that depressed the Scottish sales of papers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph . |
| 27 | Both these performances ( Brendel 's deeply personal , Zimerman 's of a regality and integrity that often reminded me of Lipatti ) resolve every novel or arresting idea into a far greater sense of continuity , overall grandeur and maturity . |
| 28 | The line of reasoning is of a kind that evolutionists frequently use . |
| 29 | On receipt of an application the Commissioner and her team will decide if the application is of a type that can be assisted and if so whether , on the merits of the case , assistance should be granted . |
| 30 | Where the machine is of a type where the blade is removable a blade carrier is fitted for the purpose . |