Example sentences of "[pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Confident as I am of your Lordship 's view , the parties agreed to trial by jury ’ . |
| 32 | And if p is false then no matter how sure I am of p I do not know it . |
| 33 | I am of the opinion that it should be stressed that these are the intentions of the organisers who are in the hands of the operators of Network SouthEast . |
| 34 | I am of the Malleus . ’ |
| 35 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 36 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 37 | For the reasons given above , I am of the opinion the judge 's answer to the question posed was correct and I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 38 | For these reasons , I am of the opinion that Wickes ' argument that the council should be required to give an undertaking in damages has no justification in Community law . |
| 39 | For the reasons I have given , I am of the opinion that he was also correct to hold that it was a matter within his discretion to decide whether or not to require the local authority to give an undertaking in damages . |
| 40 | I am of opinion that , if the interests of justice make it necessary or expedient to receive the evidence , we should admit it . |
| 41 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 42 | There was no duress in a sense of an actual or threatened interference with the person or property of Woolwich as occurred in many of the cases ( though I am of the view that the notion of duress or coercion should not be narrowly confined ) . |
| 43 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 44 | ‘ Given the acrimony between the parents who both vie for the children 's affection and blacken each other 's characters and motives in the process , I am of the view that the children have become pawns in their game of hurt and ascendency . |
| 45 | Accordingly I am of the view that the judge was in error when he decided that the removal of the child was not unlawful . |
| 46 | … But private and particular corporations for charity , founded and endowed by private persons , are subject to the private government of those who erect them ; and therefore if there be no visitor appointed by the founder , I am of opinion that the law doth appoint the founder and his heirs to be visitors . |
| 47 | ‘ I am of Callanish , ’ she said simply . |
| 48 | And anyway , I am of Callanish and though Creggan here does not yet know much of the site of Creggan yet he knows what that means . ’ |
| 49 | Very quietly he said with a pride and authority that seemed to surprise them , ‘ I am of Wrath and have much to learn . |
| 50 | ‘ Faele , ’ she whispered , ‘ I am of the islands but a vagrant now like you … ’ |
| 51 | She turned to him and stared into his eyes , and said , ‘ I am of Callanish . |
| 52 | 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 ! |
| 53 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 54 | I am of course not concerned here with the reliability of the figures themselves but with their use , or rather non-use , by Polybius . |
| 55 | BYLES J. ( dissenting ) : I am of opinion that the defendant is entitled to the judgment of the court on the demurrer to the second replication to the fourth plea . |
| 56 | FLETCHER MOULTON L.J. : I am of the opinion that by that transaction between the plaintiffs and Sir Richard Temple the debt on the promissory note became extinct . |
| 57 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 58 | Certainly I am of the opinion that if such a scheme can be brought into existence it will mean a great enrichment not only of the national life of Scotland , but of the policies and public life of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 59 | I am of course not speaking of those from the interior it is necessary to be more guarded with them particularly those of the Namoi and Juden ( ? ) parts , which I am now about to visit . |
| 60 | ( I am of course ignoring here the question of the neuro-physiological maturation underlying the development of ego-functions at about the age of seven which was discussed above ( see p. 33–4 ) . |