Example sentences of "be of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 2 | Seriously though , I am of the opinion that women need their own space to talk freely without the presence of men . |
| 3 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 4 | In condemning such acts of desecration , I am of the opinion that the only exception that could be made is in the case of books already seriously incomplete and in bad condition , when the completion of its unhappy disintegration may be forgivable . |
| 5 | I am of the opinion that it should be stressed that these are the intentions of the organisers who are in the hands of the operators of Network SouthEast . |
| 6 | I am of the Malleus . ’ |
| 7 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 8 | For the reasons given above , I am of the opinion the judge 's answer to the question posed was correct and I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 9 | For these reasons , I am of the opinion that Wickes ' argument that the council should be required to give an undertaking in damages has no justification in Community law . |
| 10 | For the reasons I have given , I am of the opinion that he was also correct to hold that it was a matter within his discretion to decide whether or not to require the local authority to give an undertaking in damages . |
| 11 | There was no duress in a sense of an actual or threatened interference with the person or property of Woolwich as occurred in many of the cases ( though I am of the view that the notion of duress or coercion should not be narrowly confined ) . |
| 12 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 13 | ‘ Given the acrimony between the parents who both vie for the children 's affection and blacken each other 's characters and motives in the process , I am of the view that the children have become pawns in their game of hurt and ascendency . |
| 14 | Accordingly I am of the view that the judge was in error when he decided that the removal of the child was not unlawful . |
| 15 | ‘ Faele , ’ she whispered , ‘ I am of the islands but a vagrant now like you … ’ |
| 16 | FLETCHER MOULTON L.J. : I am of the opinion that by that transaction between the plaintiffs and Sir Richard Temple the debt on the promissory note became extinct . |
| 17 | Certainly I am of the opinion that if such a scheme can be brought into existence it will mean a great enrichment not only of the national life of Scotland , but of the policies and public life of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 18 | I would endorse what Ken has said , I certainly am of the view there are overriding reasons which I 'll come to in a moment for putting forward a general location , I had seen that as a central location which may or may not span more than one district . |
| 19 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 20 | Having considered the terms of condition 8.1 , I am of the opinion that it can not be construed merely as a clause of retention of title but that it is truly an attempt to create a security without possession in which the machinery of a trust under Scots law is sought to be employed . |
| 21 | I am of the opinion that it will not … |
| 22 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 23 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 24 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 25 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
| 26 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 27 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
| 28 | She had wanted to speak to Debbie after the others had left , and all the talk over lunch had been of the trip to the Tate . |
| 29 | On the other hand , in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment , ex parte Rose Theatre Trust Co. the judge appears to have been of the view that an applicant could have standing only on the basis of a personal interest and not on the basis of representing the interests of others . |
| 30 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |