Example sentences of "were of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were of course some major practical problems in the way of me relaunching myself — my age , for instance . |
| 2 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 3 | Fond , in Jay 's book , was what you were of plants , distant and cute nieces and nephews , fond was a rice-pudding emotion : it feeds , but never satisfies . |
| 4 | Her dreams at these times were of running headlong down streets and staircases , into cellars where the roof and walls closed in on her . |
| 5 | Its walls were of pinkwashed cob , its roof was thatched and it stood on its own . |
| 6 | Management-union relations were of course at the heart of many developments . |
| 7 | By 1989 the problems were of growth and too buoyant demand stretching the resources though those had been considerably augmented . |
| 8 | Albeit with differing electrical systems , these units were of similar external appearance and brought to the Southern Region for the first time ( other than on the Waterloo & City line and the experimental PEP unit ) sliding-door stock which might ultimately be suitable for one-person operation . |
| 9 | Not all the results were of the same high quality ; nevertheless the music they arranged reinforced the choreographer 's design by giving the plot atmosphere , local colour , continuity and flow as well as giving the dancing its rhythmic vitality , emotion and mood . |
| 10 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 11 | Contacts : yes , these , as I was to discover , were of prime importance : they were part of the game . |
| 12 | A more difficult problem was ensuring the extra judges were of a sufficiently high calibre . |
| 13 | An Army spokesman said the documents were of low classification and details of IRA activities in them were ‘ purely fictitious ’ . |
| 14 | It seems a fair bet that Joe Public finds it as hard to feel sorry for rodents as Winston Smith did , and though these lobotomised specimens were of the cuter white kind , it was possibly to watch this sequence without feeling many qualms . |
| 15 | The souvenirs on sale , though , were of intriguing awfulness ; my favourite was a plastic female head enclosing a dried and shrivelled bouquet — a dead-metaphor version of the French custom of naming women after flowers , perhaps . |
| 16 | Lynn Binstock 's direction ( the original version was by John Cox ) was unprovocative , almost workmanlike , and the production one in which the music and the characterisation were of paramount importance — I certainly discovered fresh beauties and subtleties in the score , which was carefully conducted and nicely paced by a youthful Justin Brown . |
| 17 | Two trials that went ahead during late 1988 were of Hassan Khan and John Edwards . |
| 18 | As a general principle it should not be imagined that all economic , social , and above all political repercussions were of a vertical central — local nature or vice versa . |
| 19 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 20 | Within their own spheres , they were of overriding importance . |
| 21 | Road , air , and even river transport were of little significance by comparison with the railways . |
| 22 | Ninety per cent of the houses built in the inter-war period were of low rateable value , not exceeding £26 ( £35 in Greater London ) . |
| 23 | In Adonis Attis Osiris , Frazer saw the goddess Mefitis as personifying ‘ mephitic vapours ’ and described her temple ‘ where the exhalations … were of so deadly a character that all who set foot on the spot died ’ . |
| 24 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 25 | The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments . |
| 26 | In a stimulating analysis of the Conservative response to the Land Campaign of 1912–14 , Fforde demonstrates how frightened the Conservatives were of Lloyd George 's initiative . |
| 27 | There were occasions when the leagues were of great help to the Conservatives , but their relationship to the party was often ambivalent and sometimes hostile , and it was not always easy to control their activities . |
| 28 | It is one of the many strengths of Coetzee 's work that he recognizes the disruptive potential of the new organizations , but he concludes that ultimately they were of benefit to the Conservatives . |
| 29 | In his evidence to the Committee , Keynes identified seven possible classes of remedy for depression , and assured his colleagues that practically all of them were of some value . |
| 30 | This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside . |