Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be 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 The exhibition could be read on many levels , but the immediate impression I had was of its strong Americanism .
6 And I hope that I 've been of some assistance .
7 Well I hope I 've been of some help .
8 then I 've been of accreditation
9 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 .
10 The lasting picture I have is of devastation .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The only idea she had was of discovering some sort of shelter for the night , for she must catch the stage to her destination early in the morning .
15 I hope we have been of assistance to you . ’
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song .
20 Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology .
21 Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help .
22 And the only privilege they have is of looking after us is n't it ?
23 These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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