Example sentences of "by [noun] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 2 | send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or |
| 3 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or ’ Telephone means the same public system as at the alternative point at 2 ante . |
| 4 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character , or ’ This point is proved as the last point with the recipient explaining the indecent , obscene or menacing nature of the call . |
| 5 | I mean of course you 're going to be judged adversely perhaps , but i in a church you are being listened to by people who are of like mind , and therefore willing you to have something of value and interest to say to them . |
| 6 | The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose . |