Example sentences of "is of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowhere else is an ‘ us-them ’ mentality so clearly expressed ; but their technical proficiency and factual command of state business must have enabled such men to acquire great and even lasting power — again , at the Assembly 's expense , despite their need to pose as agents of the popular , that is of the Assembly 's , will . |
| 2 | This photo is of the assembly shop for ‘ Proton ’ rocket carriers and space modules for the orbital space station ‘ Mir ’ . |
| 3 | In the absence of a greater range of evidence it is difficult to be certain about how representative the Sutton Hoo mound 1 boat is of the range of ship types . |
| 4 | Doyle — ‘ Patrick ’ to his author — is of the fantastic-depressive , angry-and-otherwise Scots-Irish clan . |
| 5 | One of the questions raised by the J/44 is of the masthead rig versus fractional rig . |
| 6 | And Scorsese , presumably , is of the company . |
| 7 | If compulsion is not to be the order of the day where the business itself is transferred , can it be accepted when the transfer is of the company which owns the business ? |
| 8 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |
| 9 | The warning here , however , is of the difficulty encountered by some enthusiasts for graded assessment tests in persuading other colleagues in their discipline of the practicality and value of the detailed record-keeping of various ‘ grade related criteria ’ within the subject area itself . |
| 10 | In the case of Kahlo the popular image is of the artist herself , the characteristic brows , the elaborate hair , the Mexican costume ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 11 | Randy is of the school of guitarists who gauge another 's ability by that inexplicable tingle at the back the neck … |
| 12 | This is essentially a social concept since it represents the social development of a person , that is of the concept of self in the eyes of others . |
| 13 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 14 | The Golden Mean is the division of a line such that the smaller part is the same proportion of the larger part that the larger part is of the whole . |
| 15 | Much of the shambles is of the Government 's own making , because of their singular inability and unwillingness to enforce the law of the land or to show any real leadership in promoting reform . |
| 16 | And the picture which is usually the most eye- catching is of the champion halfway on his downswing with his wrists fully charged ( in a cocked position ) . |
| 17 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 18 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 19 | The final substitution is of the Duke for the Friar , returning in his own person to act as a tribunal for complaints against Angelo . |
| 20 | The specific property of poetry consists in the organization of the public , objective meanings of words , that is of the concepts and associations which a culture as a whole , rather than an individual , attaches to them . |
| 21 | The look.up table values are chosen to ramp up the motor velocity over six steps to a maximum stepping rate which is of the clock frequency . |
| 22 | Concealed within Rumens 's story is one other — a fairly familiar account of how jealousy can enfeeble the strongest of us , and how when that jealousy is of the past and of cultural differences it is probably unbeatable . |
| 23 | Cole continues : That explanation is significant as much for its excusatory tone as for its substance ; and the excuse is of the Pioneers , decision to establish a production arm as a separate entity from the consumer society , a decision pointing production for consumer co-operatives along a road to the industrial co-operative form of organisation , along a road it was not to take . |
| 24 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |
| 25 | My Spanish is of the Argentine . |
| 26 | Another justifiable criticism is of the way South Africa lift in the line-out — Adolf Malan appears to have the ability to levitate — and if Hilditch hammers them it 's double trouble … penalties to England , no possession for them . |
| 27 | The portrait in the lacquer photograph frame is of the King of the Belgians . |
| 28 | It is very hot and unstable , and is of the Wolf-Rayet type ( spectrum W ) . |
| 29 | From a date to be appointed the Act is amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 and the account here is of the Act as amended . |
| 30 | The chain of argument , up to the penultimate stage , is of the kind which supports a hypothetical imperative : ‘ If you want to look at gibbons … go to Regent 's Park ’ . |