Example sentences of "[to-vb] been of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 2 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 3 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 4 | The precise rating of the engine is not known , but Thomas had specified about 25 h.p. , and it appears to have been of that order . |
| 5 | Whatever serious business was discussed by the two Emperors remains unrecorded , but it is unlikely to have been of much substance , for Napoleon III found that his host was constrained by the new constitutional structure which had emerged after the defeat of 1866 . |
| 6 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 7 | Among the rejected choices was Sibelius 's Tapiola , and , at that stage in planning , the story was to have been of |
| 8 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
| 9 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 10 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 11 | The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen . |
| 12 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 13 | The claim seems to have been of recent origin , and it is not quite clear on what it was based apart from the general principle of primacy . |
| 14 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 15 | On the other hand , in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment , ex parte Rose Theatre Trust Co. the judge appears to have been of the view that an applicant could have standing only on the basis of a personal interest and not on the basis of representing the interests of others . |
| 16 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 17 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |
| 18 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 19 | In a later study of economic growth in the USA , and Western European countries during the period 1950–62 , Denison found the minimum contribution of education to economic growth to have been of far less importance : 15 per cent for USA , 13 per cent for UK and Belgium , and the rates for the remaining six countries varied from 7 per cent for Norway and Italy , to 2 per cent for West Germany . |
| 20 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 21 | Vamplew ( 1979:2f ) states that , of the five types of disorder classified by Mann and Pearce , ‘ all but remonstrance can be found at soccer grounds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , though the majority of incidents appear to have been of the frustration or confrontation varieties ’ . |
| 22 | Increasing EEC involvement in defence and foreign policy seems to have been of particular concern to the Danes . |
| 23 | From the G M B point of view , of course , we have quite a sporting section and we 're proud to have this link er , with both of the organizations and we 're pleased to have been of some assistance to the er , British Boxers ' Asso Professional Boxers ' Association er , in er , this launch and establishment we felt , because we 've got the Scottish professional footballers , who are well established and er , are very much an integral part of the G M B and we 've got the Northern Ireland er , footballers , we 've got the rugby players and we 've got speedway riders all of which come under . |
| 24 | Whig Jacobitism , however , appears to have been of minimal significance in Scotland . |
| 25 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |