Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 2 | I had been trained in Mespot in the art of aerial survey by the Royal Engineers , which I felt was of no practical use to my squadron , thus I became the squadron photographic officer ( small p and small o ) . |
| 3 | The religion which Proust eventually elaborated , as we shall see , was I think a religion of art , and the masterpiece which he wrote was of course his novel in fifteen volumes . |
| 4 | His theology was , however , deeply unorthodox and , as we saw in Chapter I , he paid the highest price for wishing to supplant contemporary Roman Catholicism with an alternative religion , which he believed was of older pedigree . |
| 5 | The annihilation had all but occurred in far-off Europe , but that with which he wrestled was of even deeper concern — the cessation of the faith from within . |
| 6 | What I intended is of no interest ; what is interesting is the effect the work has on the spectator , on the public who will decide if the work is important enough to survive . |
| 7 | What she said was of interest to Edouard , but he could see that it was by way of a preamble . |
| 8 | Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism . |