Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No social services or Government department will deny that everyone is of equal value , ’ says Mencap , ‘ but the services do n't support that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I sent my rent book off as proof of the fact that I was of what the rent was |
| 5 | But surely the fact that somebody 's of a different generation will erm th th they would have a different |
| 6 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 7 | Then secure in the knowledge that she was of age by six weeks , she had become Mrs Ziolkiwski — and written to tell Dad so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | erm , when we are victims of crime , and personally I think that there are two main reasons for that , one reason certainly is that when women erm are victims of crime that there is of a sexual nature or domestic violence , part of the way that we have been brought up and part of the way that those crimes have been portrayed , is to portray them as our fault |
| 13 | And the general run of hosiery is that there is of course that there 's a lot more females than males but in our side pretty equal . |
| 14 | This observation is based on the high number of copies that there are of certain fabliaux and the number of variants that there are of others . |
| 15 | This observation is based on the high number of copies that there are of certain fabliaux and the number of variants that there are of others . |
| 16 | It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all . |
| 17 | We therefore might be misled into thinking that they are of the same logical type . |
| 18 | Our inclusion of speaking and listening as a separate profile component in our recommendations is a reflection of our conviction that they are of central importance to children 's development . |
| 19 | The history of pet names is a long one , there appearing to be evidence confirming their existence before the Conquest , but in those instances where pet names survive as surnames the appearance is that they are of post-Conquest foundation , and some are difficult to identify . |
| 20 | Two types of wording are cited and it is suggested that they are of similar effect . |
| 21 | The only exceptions to the sequential rule are inserts , which can be added in without affecting any of the other material provided that they are of the same length as the material which they are replacing . |
| 22 | Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed . |
| 23 | This leads to the adoption of objectives of such generality — ‘ to provide for the recreational needs of every section of the population ’ — that they are of little practical use . |
| 24 | The siren , a metre-long amphibian from the southern United States , has lost its back legs altogether and its front legs are not only greatly reduced in size but have no bones within them , merely cartilage , so that they are of no practical use in locomotion . |
| 25 | Biblical poetry in general is overwhelmingly composed of couplets ( or triplets , extended couplets ) , and of such couplets we could state that they are of one sort ( A is related to B ) or of a hundred , but not of three or four or five . |
| 26 | Indeed , these have become so tiny that they are of little practical use when flying . |
| 27 | A number of studies have dispelled the notion that they are of no importance in the British system . |
| 28 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 29 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this also means that they are of value only to those users who have the expertise and the authority to make more detailed investigations . |