Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 2 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 3 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 4 | But we were surprised that not once during our visit were the words ‘ land reform ’ so much as mentioned , although what has happened there most certainly counts as this , and would have been of interest to the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development held by FAO in 1979 . |
| 5 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 6 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 7 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 8 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |
| 9 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
| 10 | It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one . |
| 11 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 12 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 13 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 14 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
| 15 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 16 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 17 | This facility was not available to Brian and , in retrospect , might have been of benefit . |
| 18 | Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees . |
| 19 | Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man 's widow . |
| 20 | Mayer immediately protested the decision , saying the extra width could have been of no possible advantage to Hunt , a view with which I disagreed then and still disagree now , for a sporting rule is a sporting rule . |
| 21 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 22 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 23 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 24 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 26 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
| 27 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 28 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 29 | Accordingly , it is evident that a gift of such significance could have been of no small value to a freeholder or councillor who would otherwise have found difficulty in endowing a relative so generously at the commencement of his career . |
| 30 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |