Example sentences of "was of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both half bulkheads had windows , with a hinged opening part in the bulkhead nearest the platform step , which was of the Brush folding type . |
| 2 | Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it . |
| 3 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 4 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 5 | Whereas Jaq was of the Malleus and a daemonhunter . |
| 6 | The other image was of the person behind him , Jeopardy , with his hair unplaited and his eyes fierce , pacing like a caged animal along the wall . |
| 7 | Here the new building is redolent of the symbols of commercial architecture — polished marble , hi-tech glazing , stepped cube facades — as the old one was of the values of its age . |
| 8 | She looked out of the window ; , the view was of the sea . |
| 9 | There was one particular painting which caught my eye , it was of the sea at midnight , with a full moon above it , in the sky . |
| 10 | One of Ginny 's earliest memories was of the contrast between the white of his shirt and shorts and the brown of his skin ; his legs and arms had been heavily muscled and covered with a sprinkling of dark hairs , and beads of sweat on his upper lip drained into his thin moustache . |
| 11 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 12 | The total contract cost of the church conversion and the adjacent new building was of the order of £1.25 million and the work extended over twenty-one months . |
| 13 | Despite there being no fractions in their arithmetic and observational difficulties due to frequent early morning mists and much cloud in the rainy season , they ultimately attained an accuracy in the determination of the synodic period of Venus that was of the order of one day in five thousand years , that is roughly one part in two million . |
| 14 | Hess thought that the spreading rate at the ocean ridge was of the order of one centimetre per year . |
| 15 | Shackleton et al. ( 1982 ) thought the thickness of Late Palaeozoic sediments eroded in the area of the West of England granites was of the order of 5 km . |
| 16 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 17 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 18 | The total effort required to design and build the system was of the order of fourteen man years . |
| 19 | ‘ In Great Britain , the growth of numbers over the whole century ’ , wrote the Royal Commission on Population , ‘ was of the order of 50 per cent . |
| 20 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 21 | In fact the gradient wind at 600 m ( 2000 ft ) was of the order of 250 km/h ( 150 mile/h ) and surface gusts of 180km/h ( over 100 mile/h ) were recorded on the east side of Scotland . |
| 22 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 23 | If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions . |
| 24 | Taking all sources of error into account Crowson concluded that the total error in using the tube was of the order of 5 per cent . |
| 25 | Holland has estimated that the rate of iron deposition in this basin was of the order of 20 mg Fe . |
| 26 | In 15 of 16 subjects studied there was a fall in Vg , and in both control and patient groups this was of the order of 25% ( range , 1.9–66.7% ) . |
| 27 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 28 | Keynes 's lowest estimate for the minimum unemployment rate for interwar Britain was of the order of 5% ( see R. F. Kahn , 1975 ) . |
| 29 | Lucy 's first impression was of the robe that she wore ; it was either silk or satin , she could n't be certain . |
| 30 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |