Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Geddes added that his group was of the view that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had failed to consult the Scottish people about water privatisation and was pursuing the matter in spite of it not being included in the Conservative election manifesto . |
| 2 | Moreover , the thin weal of the scar along his cheek was of a kind to tell its own story . |
| 3 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 4 | His style was of the poet-dandy . |
| 5 | The constituency that made up these ordinary readers was probably no more ordinary than Tillyard 's projected Elizabethans were , yet his assumption was of a body of readers outside higher education institutions . |
| 6 | Certainly , the multi-studio techniques used for the famous 1959 Decca Aida were meat and drink to Karajan ; and although he sometimes thought he knew more than he did , occasionally putting paid to expensive equipment , his mastery was of an order not previously seen in a working musician . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked him what his impression was of the University and I remember him looking at me and saying : ‘ Very friendly , very prosperous and doing very well ’ . |