Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 2 | ‘ I know how fond you are of your uncle , but even you must see what would happen if he was left holding the reins . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm very sorry about your cat , about Melusina , I know how fond you were of her , but giving you compensation is out of the question . |
| 4 | You do n't realize how fond she is of you . |
| 5 | To her horror the top one was of herself . |
| 6 | Here the new building is redolent of the symbols of commercial architecture — polished marble , hi-tech glazing , stepped cube facades — as the old one was of the values of its age . |
| 7 | As long as boys remain sexually immature they are of no real significance as far as the primal , sexually motivated conflict between sons and fathers is concerned . |
| 8 | At first I thought how generous it was of Émile to bother about Jean-Claude at all . |
| 9 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 10 | is to be honest she 's of little benefit to my organization . |
| 11 | How typical it is of British government that the barrage dream should be allowed to dribble on and then left to fizzle out . |
| 12 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 13 | How typical it was of Luke to make his position so crystal-clear , drawing the line almost brutally in his determination that she should n't make any personal conclusions from his offer . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |
| 15 | Here , it is the substance and the signified which are of importance . |
| 16 | There are two contradictory images ; an idealised one is of a benign , wise , peaceful old person , available to listen and perhaps to advise and to draw valuably upon life experience . |
| 17 | However , erotic symbols and fantasies are socially constructed and alterable , and by examining how conscious we are of how and why we suppress or express desire , we will be able to establish how fixed our impulses and fantasies are . |
| 18 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 19 | And if p is false then no matter how sure I am of p I do not know it . |
| 20 | ‘ How sure you are of everything . |
| 21 | For the management of change to be effective it is of paramount importance to identify the factors which , unless properly controlled , tend to create adverse effects such as those enumerated in the preceding section . |
| 22 | The metal strip at the side of the card holds an electrical charge — like a piece of recording tape ; this machine reads that , to make sure it 's of the current pattern , while at the same time photographing me and my tag and weighing me . |
| 23 | How sure he was of himself , she thought bitterly . |
| 24 | Then you will also know how stupid it was of you to attempt to deceive us . ’ |
| 25 | If their motive actually is er to enjoy seeing a fox torn to pieces er then I suggest to them er that is unbearable cruel there are of course objections to er this motion and to its further extension the banning of fox hunting altogether . |
| 26 | He smiled slowly , then drawled , ‘ You ca n't imagine how jealous I was of him . |
| 27 | Quite how independent they were of other craftsmen , particularly in the temples , is impossible to judge , but the fact that many objects — and especially the cult objects — required the shared expertise of several different crafts implies collaboration . |
| 28 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 29 | She gave me the names of all her friends and said how proud she was of the life her father had given her . |
| 30 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |