Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [been] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order . |
| 2 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 3 | Later , Lucien told himself that this shadow had been of the future . |
| 4 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 5 | Auntie 's exceptional eyesight had been of no particular help to her in her job : she was a filing-clerk in a block of offices , for ever sorting other people 's dull letters and dull memoranda . |
| 6 | But he found other allies as well , everyone in fact who had been uneasy with the extent to which traditional Catholicism had been of late put into question . |
| 7 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 8 | His first feelings had been of shock and then fear . |
| 9 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 10 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 11 | From this she deduced that the earlier arrangements had been of hamlets with infields , but , following growth in population , settlements had been replanned on new sites with the coalescence of population and lands . |