Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I myself am of only minor nobility , you understand . |
| 2 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 3 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 4 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 5 | There was no state banquet to mark Artai 's enthronement , and so it was without surprise that Alexei observed that everyone who was of importance in the Khanate had been invited to dine at Burun 's house . |
| 6 | And the same goes for those creatures like them who are of our kind though not of our species … |
| 7 | Although a number of exclusions under the Act exist , there is none which is of general relevance to a UK-based futures dealer , broker , manager or adviser . |
| 8 | Indeed , those of you who are of a literary bent will recall that Peter Rabbit was not an only child . |
| 9 | But if I have been able to persuade you that Bishop Wilberforce and Professor Chomsky are really saying the same thing , then those of you who are of rationalist or empiricist persuasion have at least got a measure of the difficulties that you face . |
| 10 | PAMELA : I will not ask you who is of your party … |
| 11 | ‘ I came , sir , to tell you we are of the same family as you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Those sketches … can you remember how many there were and who they were of ? ’ |
| 13 | Ken knew all the statues and who they were of . ’ |
| 14 | In itself it is of no great importance , but it may serve as a pointer to the presence of other sexually transmitted infection . |
| 15 | This is only one of the things that can happen to the electrons , but it is the one which is of interest in the production of TL . |
| 16 | However , the broadest distinction being made , and one which is of most relevance in the present context , is that between the ‘ good ’ ( baig ) and the ‘ bad ’ ( yabud ) — or , as I prefer , the helpful and the harmful , designations which have less of Western moral connotations and which in the particular context correspond more closely to Chewong associations . |
| 17 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 18 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 19 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 20 | One of them there was of the opinion who could quite easily lose his licence for it . |
| 21 | The passage was not some ghastly simile of war or territorial domination ( though heaven knows what the Iranians would have made of it ) , but just a pictorial explanation of the passage North said he read them next , from the third chapter of Galatians : ‘ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith , the same are the children of Abraham . ’ |
| 22 | She did not say more and when he came closer he saw that if it was sleep that had found her it was of a troubled nightmare kind , the sleep of the ill and the stressed . |
| 23 | To most children — and adults — coal is simply coal ; to me it was of many types — ell coal , tourha' , major , five quarter , parrot , main or gypsy . |
| 24 | There are two aspects of it which are of particular concern to biblical studies . |
| 25 | The rest of the specifications are in the specifications box — extract from them what is of interest to you , but take it from me that the machine is as well specified as any at this price . |
| 26 | He 's more frightened of you than what you are of him , actually . |
| 27 | Fond , in Jay 's book , was what you were of plants , distant and cute nieces and nephews , fond was a rice-pudding emotion : it feeds , but never satisfies . |
| 28 | After 10 tumultous years of substantial achievement and disastrous mistakes , the Sandinistas control the army , the unions , the youth movements , much of the media and the money — what there is of it . |
| 29 | After 10 tumultous years of substantial achievement and disastrous mistakes , the Sandinistas control the army , the unions , the youth movements , much of the media and the money — what there is of it . |
| 30 | It may seem absurd to talk in such terms of snooker , or David Jason , or Gold Blend commercials , but much of what there is of a British national culture consists of ( or is mediated through ) broadcasting . |