Example sentences of "[conj] she [modal v] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she will be of course one of the nation 's teachers of the year . |
| 2 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 3 | Isobel found herself fascinated by the diversity and challenge of Edouard 's work ; she also quickly found that she could be of help to him . |
| 4 | Now , however , she felt that she could be of some help . |
| 5 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 6 | She went to see if she could be of any use . |
| 7 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |