Example sentences of "was of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 2 | The republicanism of Irish socialist nationalists was of course logical in so far as they interpreted imperialism as an enemy of the indigenous population and as an expropriator of the people . |
| 3 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 4 | Her advice was of course extremely sensible . |
| 5 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 6 | The atmosphere was , however , cordial , if not convivial , and the talk was of what grandchildren were up to or what Dr So-and-so said about this or that particular problem . |
| 7 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 8 | He was of a more literary bent , and wrote a biography of King Louis , as well as a book on ethics and business titled Put Money In My Purse ) . |
| 9 | Curiously , she was of Irish descent , a Roman Catholic , and so they grew up influenced by her form of Christianity , which is the dominant religious influence in Montreal . |
| 10 | Leonard 's overriding impression was of a stout man , reticent and somewhat withdrawn , at least introspective , who enjoyed a good laugh ; a proud member of the Royal Canadian Legion and its military traditions . |
| 11 | Alas ! his only response to the friendly gesture was to urinate accidentally on him , which was of consummate embarrassment to his mother , and not quite in the spirit of musar ! |
| 12 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 13 | So these beginning years focused on reality — the underbelly of creation as well as its brightness — which was of immense importance to the making of the man and his mind . |
| 14 | The annihilation had all but occurred in far-off Europe , but that with which he wrestled was of even deeper concern — the cessation of the faith from within . |
| 15 | The picture was of a terraced garden . |
| 16 | She looked out of the window ; , the view was of the sea . |
| 17 | The strongest image I got from his stories and subsequent research was of the oppressive jungle and heat in which the soldiers fought . |
| 18 | However the applied section was of a lower standard than other categories , and the winners stood out above the rest |
| 19 | While train mileage cuts were implemented in 1980/1 , these were mainly marginal services covered by 100mph dieselhauled trains the loss of which was of little long-term consequence . |
| 20 | New stock was of course required for the proposed Thameslink service , and Chris Green formally accepted the first Class 319 dual-voltage unit at BREL York on 2 September . |
| 21 | The 1980s cause célèbre was of course the battle of the Settle & Carlisle . |
| 22 | For example , this was the summer of the famous Blast dinner for the Vorticists , in which Wyndham Lewis was of course much involved . |
| 23 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 24 | When he collaborated directly with her in opera the result was of historical significance . |
| 25 | In contrast to his partner 's thud and blunder , Lineker 's finishing was of the highest order . |
| 26 | Understandably , given their numerical disadvantage , Grimsby made little headway in attack , although Alexander , at 6ft 4in , was of a nuisance value against a defence deprived by injury of Brian Kilcline 's aerial authority . |
| 27 | Willy , thus bracketed with the Almighty , was of course her husband . |
| 28 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |
| 29 | It was of prime importance that ‘ money follows the patient ’ , ending the present haphazard funding of patients across district boundaries . |
| 30 | Their subject matter , though — suicides committed by ordinary people under economic pressure — was of contemporary urgency , based on reports Chikamatsu read in the papers . |