Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 2 | I 'd been of less practical help , but Terry had encouraged me to make general criticisms of the scheme . |
| 3 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 4 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 5 | And I hope that I 've been of some assistance . |
| 6 | Well I hope I 've been of some help . |
| 7 | then I 've been of accreditation |
| 8 | Yet every child care establishment I have worked in I have been of benefit to children , especially boys , who have had insufficient experience of a positive role model . |
| 9 | Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest . |
| 10 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 11 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 12 | I hope we have been of assistance to you . ’ |
| 13 | They have been extremely efficient and effective in carrying out their onerous tasks , and they 've been of enormous assistance in ensuring the smooth running of this enquiry , and indeed it has run smoothly . |
| 14 | And of course the deterrents that we 've had , over the years , when they they 've been of the emotive and knee jerk sort , and I remember the short sharp shock for instance , under Whitelaw , they did n't work , because they were n't thought out , they were just to make them clap at the Tory party conference . |
| 15 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 16 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 17 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
| 18 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 19 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 20 | However , they have been of considerable value in that they have challenged the assumptions of many gerontologists and policy makers and forced a closer examination of our knowledge about health and ageing in later life . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 22 | The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen . |
| 23 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members . |
| 26 | The government-run NORP is still in operation today , however the observation that this programme is not mentioned in much of the post-1985 literature on oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh , suggests that it has been of limited value to the people of Bangladesh . |
| 27 | At present any member of the public can consult it all day long , all year round , and there is no doubt that it has been of invaluable help not only to scholars but also to the art trade . |
| 28 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 29 | It has been of considerable economic advantage to both countries . |
| 30 | No doubt his electoral leadership was of value ; but can it have been of decisive importance ? |