Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a further interpretation of this which is of great importance . |
| 2 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 3 | ‘ I know how fond you are of your uncle , but even you must see what would happen if he was left holding the reins . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm very sorry about your cat , about Melusina , I know how fond you were of her , but giving you compensation is out of the question . |
| 5 | You do n't realize how fond she is of you . |
| 6 | True , it has a second lens but this one is of a mere 50mm focal length — too similar to the standard 35mm lens to make much of a difference . |
| 7 | This is the fourth year running she 's been asked by the Fellowship to create a cake in the shape of a folly — this one is of a pair of ornamental greenhouses nicknamed Tweedledum and Tweedledee . |
| 8 | This one unlocks his private wine-cellars under the tower , and this one is of the inner cellar , where the best wines are . |
| 9 | They were not very varied — ‘ Juliet in front of a shop … and here 's Juliet in this bar place … and this one 's of Juliet sitting on a rock … and here 's Juliet in a boat — that was the day we went for a boat trip … . ’ |
| 10 | This one was of champagne-coloured silk . |
| 11 | Another one is of a ‘ Green ’ LMS loco . |
| 12 | To her horror the top one was of herself . |
| 13 | Here the new building is redolent of the symbols of commercial architecture — polished marble , hi-tech glazing , stepped cube facades — as the old one was of the values of its age . |
| 14 | As long as boys remain sexually immature they are of no real significance as far as the primal , sexually motivated conflict between sons and fathers is concerned . |
| 15 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 16 | At first I thought how generous it was of Émile to bother about Jean-Claude at all . |
| 17 | God in Christ , through taking on a particular instance of humanity , shares with all human beings the universal , humanity , and it is that which is of significance , even though he may have different particularities from some other individuals . |
| 18 | He advocated passive resistance to laws prohibiting Quaker worship , reasoning that mortal restraints on conscience were ineffective since force ‘ can reach no further than to that which is of the same nature with it ’ . |
| 19 | But he was able to anticipate that objection by suggesting that the prohibition applied only to knowledge sought in self-aggrandizement , not to that which was of service to humanity . |
| 20 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 21 | The same can be said of literature in the broader field of gender and science , where there is much which is of interest to mathematics educators . |
| 22 | is to be honest she 's of little benefit to my organization . |
| 23 | As such it is of benefit to the whole organism and all its genes . |
| 24 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 25 | Although browsing may be considered as an alternative to the matching approach provided by keyword searching , in the online context it is equivalent to browsing the system 's indexes and as such it is of limited value . |
| 26 | How typical it is of British government that the barrage dream should be allowed to dribble on and then left to fizzle out . |
| 27 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 28 | How typical it was of Luke to make his position so crystal-clear , drawing the line almost brutally in his determination that she should n't make any personal conclusions from his offer . |
| 29 | Being published , originally , in 1655–73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |