Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent my rent book off as proof of the fact that I was of what the rent was |
| 2 | I am more certain of that than I am of anything in my life , and although it is a slow and at times agonizing road I tread , the time will come when I shall be heard and cleared of the indictment held against me . |
| 3 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 4 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 5 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 6 | He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies . |
| 7 | ‘ If there are any , then they will be more frightened of us than we are of them . ’ |
| 8 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 9 | He 's not taking any more notice of her than he is of me . |
| 10 | Being Irish herself , and the sister of a man who had gone mad with syphilis , she was rather more tolerant of Warnie 's foibles than he was of hers . |
| 11 | The best of describing it is If you are joint tenants , say it 's a house and there 's of you , you both own all the property . |
| 12 | After all , Mercurius was the tutelary deity of the Art , and it was of his very nature to beguile and confuse in this manner ; but she could take no comfort from the knowledge , for she must pursue him as through a hall of mirrors , from one bride-chamber to the next , and at each remove he shifted shape with such dispiriting agility that , again and again , she might have cried out loud for rest . |
| 13 | Luckily , after a while , I noticed a framed photograph of a young man on the sideboard and diverted the flow by asking if it was of his son — ’ |
| 14 | But you were of my blood , and I had already lost so much- ’ |
| 15 | Brunner by contrast appealed to the Reformers , and especially to Calvin , in support of his contentions that there is a ‘ general revelation ’ of God in the ordering of the created universe , simply because it is of his making and bears his signature , and that this has its subjective correlate in man , made in God 's image . |
| 16 | What else , since she is of my lord 's begetting ? |
| 17 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 18 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 19 | Confident as I am of your Lordship 's view , the parties agreed to trial by jury ’ . |
| 20 | It became apparent that he was as aware of me as I was of him . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ Ssshh ’ , cravenly , for I was scared of her , although not as scared as I was of my own parent . |
| 22 | ‘ They are probably as frightened of you as you are of them . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Was he thinking of her as she was of him ? |
| 25 | Poor Johnny ; wallowing in a mire of Women 's Lib : He was a product of his times , as she was of hers . |
| 26 | Are the aliens as frightened of us as we are of them ? |
| 27 | they were just as scared of us as we are of them |
| 28 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 29 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 30 | Americans are proud of their way of life as we are of our own although there are differences , there are many more similarities . |