Example sentences of "[vb past] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
| 2 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 3 | Hence the normality of 42 when the dogs referred to are of opposite sexes can not be used as evidence against the existence of two senses of dog , since it can be fully accounted for by claiming that only the general sense is operative . |
| 4 | A tape recording believed to be of his last words proves he executed his young family then killed himself , according to a newspaper report in America . |
| 5 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 6 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 7 | These concepts came to be of prime importance with the introduction of non-abelian groups into topology , specifically via the fundamental group of a topological space . |
| 8 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 9 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
| 10 | and before them a knight of great stature upon a white horse with a bloody cross , who bore in one hand a white banner , and in the other a sword which seemed to be of fire , and he made a great mortality among the Moors who were flying . |
| 11 | Heim again presented her view that the accused was faking , and added the comment that from her observations of his behaviour in the witness box he seemed to be of average intelligence . |
| 12 | This question , said Mrs B , seemed to be of particular significance , but she had felt unable to make any sense of it . |
| 13 | The sketches seemed to be of a great age , but over the surface of some of them were drawn in fresher colours smaller and more recent scenes , and rude forms of animals , such as the kangaroo , wallaby , porcupine , crocodile , etc . ’ |
| 14 | As Hunt puts it , far straighter than anyone else has ever dared do , ‘ They seemed to be of the opinion that their drivers should n't be paid . |
| 15 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 16 | It seemed to be of horsemen having a nice peaceful ride in the wood — picnickers , almost — until I discovered the animal , when it became perfectly clear that it had been a hunting scene all along . |
| 17 | The emerging pattern seemed to be of each main electronic and electrical sector being left with about three major companies . |
| 18 | Attacked by its critics as a sort of institutional megalomania in which a defeat of free institutions anywhere was a defeat everywhere it was a supercharged containment policy in which , in defence of the perimeter , all points seemed to be of equal importance . |
| 19 | They seemed to be of the opinion that there should be a new form of charge for two levels of supplying , like what they call social supplying and big supplying . |
| 20 | The administration of additional inspired oxygen seemed to be of benefit ; in 15 patients with baseline hypoxaemia this would be expected as episodic desaturation has been reported to be more severe if baseline hypoxaemia is present . |
| 21 | The patches seemed to be of two types : Nicorene , Nicotine Patch , Nicocheck , and Nicoban were of closely similar or identical appearance and on analysis contained only 0.4 mg of nicotine per patch . |
| 22 | Both photographs seemed to be of the same occasion . |
| 23 | The record seemed to be of some unremarkable string music . |
| 24 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 25 | The moving pictures on the wall seemed to be of events occurring elsewhere on the planet , or in the universe , across the ages . |
| 26 | It is a wildlife site acknowledged to be of world conservation importance under the Ramsar criteria ( the Ramsar Convention ) , which has been signed by Britain , exists to preserve wetlands of world importance ) and protected under British law as a 600-acre site of special scientific interest . |
| 27 | At their wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve , 1873 , John took embarrassing matters into his own hands and nominated a Thomas Tiller as his father and claimed to be of full age . |
| 28 | But there are already languages , claimed to be of ‘ higher ’ levels than LISP , that must , in their turn , be translated into LISP before programs in them can run . |
| 29 | For the first time , he claimed to be of German descent : |
| 30 | He considered good personal relationships between teacher and taught to be of paramount importance : the core , around which all other aspects of Basil 's teaching philosophy fitted into place . |