Example sentences of "be of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Very quietly he said with a pride and authority that seemed to surprise them , ‘ I am of Wrath and have much to learn . |
| 32 | ‘ Faele , ’ she whispered , ‘ I am of the islands but a vagrant now like you … ’ |
| 33 | She turned to him and stared into his eyes , and said , ‘ I am of Callanish . |
| 34 | 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 ! |
| 35 | ‘ I myself am of only minor nobility , you understand . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | I am of course not concerned here with the reliability of the figures themselves but with their use , or rather non-use , by Polybius . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 41 | 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 . ’ |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | ( 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 ) . |
| 44 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 45 | I would endorse what Ken has said , I certainly am of the view there are overriding reasons which I 'll come to in a moment for putting forward a general location , I had seen that as a central location which may or may not span more than one district . |
| 46 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 47 | This point was expressed by Lord Herschell in Vagliano as follows : I am of course far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the provisions of the code . |
| 48 | Having considered the terms of condition 8.1 , I am of the opinion that it can not be construed merely as a clause of retention of title but that it is truly an attempt to create a security without possession in which the machinery of a trust under Scots law is sought to be employed . |
| 49 | I am of the opinion that it will not … |
| 50 | He said : ‘ Having regard to the terms of the correspondence , I am of opinion that the letters were intended to set out , and did set out , matters on which the writers had reached agreement . ’ |
| 51 | Having said that , I am of course aware with more humility that ultimately we depend on the professional judgement , so generously given , of Mrs McNaughtan . |
| 52 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 53 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 54 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 55 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 56 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 57 | Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries . |
| 58 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 59 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 60 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |