Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun sg] was of " in BNC.
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| 1 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 2 | But she had to admit that this child was of a different type altogether : her voice , her manner suggested a refined type of background . |
| 3 | The academic establishment refused to entertain the possibility that this doctrine was of any wider significance to criminal law beyond the local issue of what is to be done with the drunken offender and , within that narrow compass , that the doctrine was coherent or justifiable . |
| 4 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 5 | Nevertheless he continued to insist that all government was of divine institution , and that political authority was conferred by God , so that resistance to the " powers-that-be " was always a sin , regardless of what form that political authority took . |
| 6 | On 13 September 1991 a secure accommodation order was made by justices , again pursuant to the Act of 1980 and that order was of three months ' duration . |
| 7 | Because from each pole there hung a robe , and each robe was of a different hue , and every robe was of a different consistency . |
| 8 | Furthermore , no contemporary writer , even one who supported Lothar , alleges that Charles and Louis won this battle by a surprise attack ( though that tactic was of course standard military practice , and quite familiar to Charles ) . |
| 9 | These are a relic of the independent existence of Medieval Serbia when this territory was of great importance in the Balkan Peninsula at a time when the Byzantine Empire was at a low ebb . |