Example sentences of "[verb] they [modal v] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When any goods are bought they should be of merchantable quality . |
| 2 | If solutions were to be found they would be of a technological nature . |
| 3 | He can be hugely intelligent when he thinks they can be of assistance to him , but most of the time he knows they 're a poorish and raffish lot , living off their own enthusiasms and frustrations . |
| 4 | They told me to keep in touch and call them if I felt they could be of assistance . |
| 5 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 6 | But of course , reliance on beans from a single source means they must be of a consistently high standard . |
| 7 | ‘ The nature of the trains means they must be of a very high standard . ’ |
| 8 | She hid them in our quarters , thinking they might be of use to the party , but Devraux found them and she was taken to prison . |