Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 2 | Here if I am wrong , my error is substantial , for in being wrong about whether ‘ pink ’ is the word to describe my present experience I am wrong about what pink is and hence about whether my experience is of pink rather than of orange . |
| 3 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 4 | Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics . |
| 5 | We 've been in touch with Stanford who will accept me if my lymphoma is of the right type . |
| 6 | But my suffrage is of little value , because this and Fort Augustus are the only garrisons that I ever saw . ’ |
| 7 | He said my words were of pellucid clarity and great wisdom , but he knew nothing of poison , and if I wished to complain , he would be glad to take sherbet with you , or with Zacco . |
| 8 | Ha ha , it 's your au — fr … parents ' friend , Janice , Gav beamed , radiating unrepentant guilt ; came round here the other day looking for you we got talking went for a curry had a few drinks ended up back here one thing led to another know how it is always liked older women they 're more experienced know what I mean arf arf anyway spent an extremely enjoyable New Year at her place apart from the usual visit to my folk 's of course oh by the way she 's coming round here tonight I 'm cooking lasagne can you swap rooms seeing Norris wo n't be back until tomorrow it 's just I did n't expect you back until then either , that okay ? |
| 9 | My second are of concern is the limited scope of the qualification to liability for bona fide discussion of public affairs or other matters of general public interest . |
| 10 | My biases are of course no more or less biases than those I am going to examine . |
| 11 | Feeling a little like I imagined a tomb-robber might feel , but knowing that my motives were of the very best , I relocked both doors and left without a backward glance . |
| 12 | My imagination is of an order lively enough to appreciate the invidious nature of your position without a recital of the sordid details . ’ |
| 13 | My wife was of no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ My earliest memory of my father is of him galloping down a field ; my last is of him reaching out to me like a helpless kitten ’ |
| 15 | I have need of such comparison , otherwise my writing is of a hothouse type . ’ |
| 16 | When my daughter is of age , that is different ; if you still want her by then . |
| 17 | My daughter was of er grammar school erm tuition but we could n't put her into anywhere here because there were no schools available Loughton would n't take her neither would er , Bishop 's Stortford because they were the only two grammar schools available here and erm my dau , other daughter with many other children er , well all the , children of the residency in Tanys Dell and the Glebelands had to travel to Chingford every day to school . |
| 18 | Someone thought of my self-portraits was of a native boy . |
| 19 | My vision is of a team pulling together with a common aim and purpose to give glory to God and see His Kingdom extended in our part of the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 20 | Organisational decisions are made by the hospital administrators ( who ought to try treating patients without the proper facilities ) against a background of NHS politics and my vision is of a lucrative private practice and regular weekends off with my family ’ . |
| 21 | My Spanish is of the Argentine . |
| 22 | My friends were of a similar disposition . |
| 23 | All my children are of average size so where do the manufacturers get their sizes from ? |
| 24 | My hands are of your colour , but I shame To wear a heart so white . |
| 25 | My Executive is of the opinion that it is essential both for winning and retaining Parliamentary seats that special attention should be given to the whole subject … . |
| 26 | As matters stand , some 27.4 per cent of my sexuality is of the Grecian or musical persuasion ; 71.6 prefers a quiet evening in with nothing more erotic than a gardening magazine and a steaming mug of Mr Horlicks 's malted beverage , whilst the remaining one per cent has become attached to one of Miss Esther Rantzen 's saucy root vegetables . |
| 27 | Yet one of the sights I treasure most in my memory is of a French river in the Cévennes where black-veined whites in their hundreds were floating among falling poplar down in the dappled sunlight . |
| 28 | He wore a cap on his head ( 'I even capitalized on my semi-baldness by signing with Parmalat to wear a cap with their name on it' ) and my memory is of a certain artificial constraint on the part of many in paddock and pit-lane in approaching him . |
| 29 | See , all my records are of aggression , assault , serious assaults , actual assaults . ’ |
| 30 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |