Example sentences of "[pron] had been of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 2 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 3 | Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism . |
| 4 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 5 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 6 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 7 | 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 ) : |
| 8 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |