Example sentences of "[been] of [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 2 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 3 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 4 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 5 | Had she been of any other class , he would long ago have stormed her defences and conquered . |
| 6 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 7 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |