Example sentences of "be of [det] " 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 | My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 4 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 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 poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 7 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 8 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 9 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 10 | But one may also say , from the fact that this has needed to be discussed — and from the fact that , as I say , throughout the greater part of Christendom women have not been ordained — it would be difficult to argue that the fact that this religion has had at its centre a male figure has been of little significance . |
| 11 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 14 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 15 | But staff here agree the assessment has been of little value . |
| 16 | On each occasion the items stolen have been of little value , but the thefts are a continual thorn in the side of the cricket club committee . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid I have n't been of much help to you , Mr Millet . ’ |
| 20 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 21 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 24 | " 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 . " |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 28 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 29 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 30 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |