Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ It Swings , Jocko ’ he says , ‘ I want my dreams to be of deprivation … ’ ( which is , after all , the mother of poetry ) . |
| 2 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 3 | The Erembald family , of which the chancellor of St Donatian 's and the castellan of Bruges were members in 1127 , was alleged by its opponents to be of servile origin ; that its members chose to murder Charles the Good rather than dispute the allegation suggests its truth . |
| 4 | Unlike adherents of other contemporary religions in the Roman empire , except Judaism , Christians regarded their religion as expressing the purpose of God in history ; but whereas Judaism was concerned primarily with the fortunes of Israel , Christians considered their faith to be of universal significance . |
| 5 | Babs was under too much of a strain trying to memorise her lines to be of help , and as for Dawn — well , unless the poor thing was actually wearing her glasses , the results could be decidedly hit and miss . |
| 6 | Most of the systems , including the spectronic destabilizer ( handy for blasting planets ) , were too large scale in their effects to be of any use in this situation . |
| 7 | 3. it will be understood by its observers to be of this character . |
| 8 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |
| 9 | The majority of temporary workers consider their jobs to be of a seasonal , temporary or casual nature rather than fixed-term contract jobs . |
| 10 | His compulsion to be of service and to act from his feelings had found its outlet . |
| 11 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 12 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 13 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 14 | The world was never told by God that it could overcome the evil inherent in it , but Christ tells his disciples to be of good cheer because he has overcome the world . |
| 15 | ( Elsewhere , another angry gentleman of the period , Evelyn Waugh , had waited for his children to be of an age to converse with him , before taking an interest . ) |
| 16 | This is a good time to be thinking strategically and finding new ways for our skills to be of service to the public . |
| 17 | If it 's of equal , or greater , importance than the material it goes with , you want your image to be of the highest quality and you 're prepared to spend the time to achieve something a bit special . |