Example sentences of "be of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 2 | Fortunately I am of good tough stock . |
| 3 | My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 5 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees . |
| 9 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 10 | The political moment — that period when moral attitudes are transformed into formally political action — can be of key importance in nuancing the regulation of sexuality , and at crucial times a moral schema has been of prime significance in political propaganda . |
| 11 | Among these colour and texture have been of prime importance , but durability has always been valued in civilized societies concerned with maintaining wealth . |
| 12 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 13 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 14 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 15 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 16 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 17 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
| 22 | As well as the waterway , Healings own a fleet of road tankers for grain transport , and the location of motorway junctions , built in the 1970s and 1980s near Tewkesbury , has also been of great advantage a far cry from the early years of the century , when deliveries were made by a 12 mph Foden lorry . |
| 23 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 24 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I am a family man , and mine has been of great help to me . |
| 29 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
| 30 | K2 had the necessary experience of working with Chameleon and could also boast skills in software design that have , according to Stan Taylor , senior manager of European information systems at Intergraph , ‘ been of great benefit to the company . ’ |