Example sentences of "was of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 2 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 3 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 4 | In 1873 , after a case of murder in which the victim was a Rodi , the Assistant Government Agent at Nuvara Eliya commented that ‘ the victim was of the lowest caste , to which they [ the Sinhalese ] clearly believe that the principles of natural justice and law are not applicable . ’ |
| 5 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 6 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 7 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 8 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 9 | What I did n't know was of the ninety-plus pieces of work , both large and small , which Save The Children undertook in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Him and his sister and I think a brother and two or three of them but Jimmy was of the roving type . |
| 11 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 12 | The truck was of the usual Brill 21E design with truss rods , but carried an additional pair of wheels under the motor springs at one end with rail brushes . |
| 13 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 14 | H375 DRV arrived on a cold , wet night , and my first impression was of the prodigious efficacy of the three-speed heater/demister . |
| 15 | Her only consciousness was of the pulsing energy washing over her , picking her up , carrying her along whether she willed it or not , his body pulsing against her own with its blatant male need , and she felt helpless against it . |
| 16 | Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order . |
| 17 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 18 | I recall with particular pleasure the visit of the younger Edinburgh parish minister who insisted that his strength was of the superhuman variety , but who nevertheless collapsed , laughing , under the weight of a huge box of encyclopaedias . |
| 19 | Thus an early draft of some of the major integrative levels was of the following form : |
| 20 | The memory that would always stay with the Lerskys was of the tiny Lieserl waddling along the platform . |
| 21 | Some of the most accomplished yelling was conducted by men for whom the only college worth getting in a strop over was of the electoral variety . |
| 22 | Another criticism was of the poor performance of the nationalized industries , particularly the low pre-tax real rates of return on the capital employed . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) The fact that Mr. Perot had made an offer and agreed to buy Vertigo ( subject to contract ) was of the greatest materiality . |
| 24 | Farther on in his dispatch , Haig wrote : ‘ … this unavoidable delay in the development of our offensive was of the greatest service to the enemy . |
| 25 | Her mission , she explained , was of the greatest delicacy and while she was loathe to broach the matter with the matriarch of the De Belvings , it was too serious to be discussed with anyone but the most trusted member of the household staff . |
| 26 | In contrast to his partner 's thud and blunder , Lineker 's finishing was of the highest order . |
| 27 | Despite those defeats his form was of the highest order , and he was favourite for the International , his odds of 19–10 at the off being slightly shorter than those of the American horse Czar Alexander . |
| 28 | The Australian 's 61 off 69 balls , at a time when Tim Munton was making other batsmen jump , was of the highest quality and serves as a warning to other sides what awaits them at Chelmsford . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Miss Rene continued , ‘ immediately we saw this we knew it was of the highest quality . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , France was a very demanding market , as both Laura and Bernard were well aware , and once the freshness and newness of the product had worn off , it was critically important that the merchandise was of the highest quality . |