Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 2 | The transfer function of the low-pass prototype is given by equation ( 12.12 ) and substituting expression ( 12.43 ) for s generates the modified transfer function On the other hand , direct analysis of the network of figure ( 12.4 ) yields or which is of course of the same form . |
| 3 | And this has been interpreted as meaning measures which are excessively costly , burdensome , unusual , or which are of no real benefit to the patient . |
| 4 | Events which are severely threatful only for a few days , or which are of a relatively mild or even positive nature , are unlikely to be associated with depression ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 6 | We must , in fact , achieve what we set out to do or we are of no value to those who permit us on their land . |
| 7 | First , ‘ the national interest demands that woodlands should be managed in accordance with the principles of good forestry ’ , and second , where they are of amenity value , the owner has ‘ a public duty to act with reasonable regard for amenity aspects ’ . |
| 8 | Since harm was the guiding principle , section 2(4) provided that ‘ a person publishing an article shall not be proceeded against for an offence at common law … where it is of the essence of the offence that the matter is obscene ’ . |
| 9 | This problem has not yet been considered in relation to the Johnston-McClelland model , where it is of particular importance because in this model , inhibition is absolutely decisive . |
| 10 | The invention of the wheel may be one of the landmarks of the forward march of humankind , but there were still parts of eighteenth-century England where it was of scant practical value . |
| 11 | Now legislation arises either from major political commitments made by the Cabinet ( or earlier by the Shadow Cabinet while the party was in opposition ) , or it is of a more routine nature and comes from within the departments when they find their existing powers insufficient or inappropriate for the conduct of administration along accepted lines . |
| 12 | ‘ No social services or Government department will deny that everyone is of equal value , ’ says Mencap , ‘ but the services do n't support that . |
| 13 | All this mental harassment has affected me so much that my doctor has warned me that I 'm of the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 15 | I sent my rent book off as proof of the fact that I was of what the rent was |
| 16 | I am more certain of that than I am of anything in my life , and although it is a slow and at times agonizing road I tread , the time will come when I shall be heard and cleared of the indictment held against me . |
| 17 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 18 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 19 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 20 | But surely the fact that somebody 's of a different generation will erm th th they would have a different |
| 21 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 22 | Then secure in the knowledge that she was of age by six weeks , she had become Mrs Ziolkiwski — and written to tell Dad so . |
| 23 | She was no more a disciple of Churchill than she was of Heath . |
| 24 | He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies . |
| 25 | A spokesman said last night that all the Vietnamese lifted out of Hong Kong on Monday night had been screened to determine that none was of refugee status . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 's not very nice to take a convicted criminal into your home and then to have him tell you that you 're of little consequence . ’ |
| 27 | In ( 36 ) the adjective former does not qualify the properties , as such , implied by the use of the word king ; the sentence does not mention any entity that has characteristics formerly typical of kings — such as regarding oneself as the owner of one 's subjects , perhaps , or believing that one is of divine lineage . |
| 28 | Well it 's hard to know where to stop , really erm I mean the , the difficulty of concentrating on one area of the country , is that we 're of course I think there must be very great differences in different areas of the country . |
| 29 | ‘ If there are any , then they will be more frightened of us than we are of them . ’ |
| 30 | This complexity must not be reduced to simple hypocrisy , although there is of course some of that . |