Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would endorse what Ken has said , I certainly am of the view there are overriding reasons which I 'll come to in a moment for putting forward a general location , I had seen that as a central location which may or may not span more than one district . |
| 2 | But the approach is not adequate by itself : on the one hand , not all of the functions which government consciously decides to perform are public ; and on the other hand , there may well be functions performed by non-governmental bodies which have not attracted government attention , encouragement or participation but which nevertheless are of public importance . |
| 3 | What is important is the change in conditions of those employments which clearly are of one kind in making the marginal workforce more vulnerable . |
| 4 | What is needed is generous help to ensure their children survive and aid systems which really are of benefit to the people . |
| 5 | According to one deponent , the duke had threatened to remove the countess to Middleham , at which she yielded , ‘ considering her great age , the great journey , and the great cold which then was of frost and snow ’ . |
| 6 | According to one deponent , the duke had threatened to remove the countess to Middleham , at which she yielded , ‘ considering her great age , the great journey , and the great cold which then was of frost and snow ’ . |
| 7 | she said oh yes you will , then she said to me I 'm sorry to tell you you did n't make , she said you made exc , but she said I do n't want you to feel erm disgruntled she said because er , you done a fabulous interview , the only thing that let you down was of lack of experience , so I said well you 're never gon na get any cos you , nobody let's you in , they do n't open the door |
| 8 | Yes , we 're very very pleased actually , I mean we were pleased with the fact that we were able to contribute to it because one of the nice things about working , for us , working for the Jordanian water authority , was that the Jordanians themselves have put so much commitment into this er situation , they 're , so much of their own resources and energy has gone into looking after , you know , very large groups of people who really are of no benefit to the country whatsoever . |
| 9 | But Toby wondered whether the old-fashioned theories it conducted itself by were of the best , or consistently applied . |
| 10 | The upper classes , who are just as exotic and who theoretically are of crucial importance for understanding the mechanism of social structure , tend to shut their doors on the enquiring social scientist . |
| 11 | AN OLD CAMBRIDGE toast is , ‘ Here 's to pure mathematics — may she never be of any use to anyone ! ’ |
| 12 | However applicable the distinction — and Walsh 's characterization of the " provincial " muftis — may be in the period after the end of the sixteenth century , the position regarding the muftis in the earlier period is rather more complex , for here one must distinguish three classes : first , the Mufti ; second , muftis of a number of cities and large towns , who certainly were of the ulema class ; and third , though evidence regarding them is hard to come by , one may perhaps hypothesize a class of small-town , even village muftis , who may have been , but very possibly were not , of the ulema class . |
| 13 | No one else was of the same mind as he . |
| 14 | In the case of the farmhouses & country cottages , we feel we should mention that they mainly are of great age & rustic nature — indeed there very charm lies in this fact . |
| 15 | He obviously was of a mind with Churchill who later was to say : ‘ I never meant the Anglo-American Army to be stuck in North Africa . |
| 16 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 17 | He 's far fonder of the bottle than he ever was of me . ’ |
| 18 | Granted , hypothetically , that it may be a flexible legal concept , it nonetheless is of a nature which does not extend to the union of two people of the same sex . |
| 19 | But for such degenerates as Cade , or these two , Shakespeare can also deprive his prose of rhythm , make it flaccid , shapeless , a difficult mouthful to get out : Caliban 's verse stands out with the greater force , cured as he now is of his delusions : But — so at least the juxtaposition suggests — that is in part the judgement that verse can make over prose . |
| 20 | Someone for whom it really is of no concern whether others enjoy or suffer is schizophrenic ; he is no egoist , but one whose imaginary viewpoints are disconnected from the real people around him . |
| 21 | However , with these examples , might it no be of benefit to the England side to increase the frequency of these News bulletins ? |
| 22 | Even more unusual was the door because it too was of glass . |
| 23 | What exactly is of value in this nouveau-riche southern heartland of Thatcherism ? |