Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 2 | She had wanted to speak to Debbie after the others had left , and all the talk over lunch had been of the trip to the Tate . |
| 3 | The health care issue had been of growing concern in the USA both because of its cost ( 12 per cent of GNP compared with around 8 per cent for most other industrialized countries ) , and its effect of binding employees to their employers through the fear of losing their health insurance , thereby making the job market less flexible and deterring people from starting new businesses . |
| 4 | But he found other allies as well , everyone in fact who had been uneasy with the extent to which traditional Catholicism had been of late put into question . |
| 5 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 6 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 7 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 8 | My Bible instruction to the lad had been of no avail . |
| 9 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 10 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 11 | The areas in which slavery or serfdom had been of marginal importance or genuinely ‘ uneconomic ’ — e.g. northern and southern Russia or the border states and the south-west in the United States — adjusted readily to its liquidation . |
| 12 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 13 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 14 | In the Electoral College , Reagan 's victory had been of landslide proportions , but the popular vote told a different story . |
| 15 | Auntie 's exceptional eyesight had been of no particular help to her in her job : she was a filing-clerk in a block of offices , for ever sorting other people 's dull letters and dull memoranda . |
| 16 | Later , Lucien told himself that this shadow had been of the future . |
| 17 | Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) , though working to a different agenda from that of other critics of the official line , felt that the Libyan contribution to the Lockerbie disaster had been of a low-level technical nature . |
| 18 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 19 | At the same time , it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order . |
| 20 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 21 | Faith had been of certain mind but easier to please . |
| 22 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 23 | It was also noted by the Court of Appeal , at p. 379C , that the Report of the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) ( Cmnd. 8558 ) under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Cork considered that the power , contained in any well-drawn floating charge , to appoint a receiver and manager of the property and undertaking of a company had been of outstanding public benefit . |