Example sentences of "[pron] be of " in BNC.

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1 Sir Thomas was quite willing to try , even though ‘ four gentlemen , two of whom are of another communion ’ , had declined to sign the petition .
2 I should like to thank all our workforce , the majority of whom are of course remaining with the company , for their impressive commitment to getting on with the job in hand , despite the company 's problems .
3 Although they are rarer fossils , some of them are of such interest that they are worth mentioning here .
4 ‘ Tie-in books ’ are a major part of any best-seller list , but not all of them are of the semi-literate kind often found there and described earlier .
5 Details of the experiments themselves do not concern us here , but some of the ideas that have emerged from them are of interest because they add further to our understanding of how , looked at from a biological perspective , creativity can be connected to psychosis .
6 Some of them are of necessity considered briefly — even in shorthand form — and the reader seeking further elucidation is referred to the sources mentioned in the text .
7 Fifteen coins are recorded from the site ; some of them are of Valentinian and show that occupation continued to the end of the fourth century .
8 The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these .
9 Some of them are of great value in treating cancers , but mifepristone acts by blocking the hormone progesterone , which is essential for the maintenance of a pregnancy .
10 Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic .
11 Many of them are of a Victorian standard and need considerable investment .
12 The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession .
13 Community policies , and expenditures upon them are of course not perfectly substitutable for alternative national policies .
14 Indeed , the trees which separate them are of different varieties and are , generally , more gracile than those at Woodchester ( Neal 1981 , no. 87 ) .
15 Erm many of my officers erm indeed all of them are of the same mind .
16 and , but if any of them are of not U K origin
17 Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home .
18 I am sure we all have one objective in mind , which is how we can best serve our members , and I 'm sure that both Richard and I are of the same view on this .
19 I am of no consequence , only a Catholic priest , doing my duty .
20 ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music .
21 Fortunately I am of good tough stock .
22 But as to what [ the gentleman ] observes concerning Stephen Duck , I am of Opinion , that it was not his Situation , but the Royal Favour , which gained the Country over to his Side ; and therefore I think it needless to paint the Life of a Person , who depends more upon the Curiosity of the World , than its Good nature
23 Seriously though , I am of the opinion that women need their own space to talk freely without the presence of men .
24 Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) .
25 But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’
26 My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’
27 In condemning such acts of desecration , I am of the opinion that the only exception that could be made is in the case of books already seriously incomplete and in bad condition , when the completion of its unhappy disintegration may be forgivable .
28 Some day we will be married ; I am certain of it , but it is a long time to wait till I am of age and we must think of some other way before then .
29 ‘ Am I to wear this , in pretence , until I am of age ? ’ she asked .
30 I am more certain of that than I am of anything in my life , and although it is a slow and at times agonizing road I tread , the time will come when I shall be heard and cleared of the indictment held against me .
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