Example sentences of "he [was/were] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 2 | If they saw him , he was of no significance . |
| 3 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 4 | Mr. Burgess answered : ‘ My main reason was I did not consider that he was of a sound disposal mind . ’ |
| 5 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 6 | He was of the impression that his findings could overturn the Act . |
| 7 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 8 | He therefore travelled through the greater part of England , observing everything , but was equally careful to inspect all ornamental and kitchen gardens , and to make himself at home and acquainted with all horticulturalists , for he was of the opinion that he could learn something useful which he did not know before at least from some of them . |
| 9 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 10 | He was of the opinion that this increase was due to unemployment and that the numbers would continue to increase . |
| 11 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 12 | In Ashbridge Investments Ltd. v. Minister of Housing and Local Governments the Minister had power to modify a clearance order if he was of the opinion that land should not have been included in it . |
| 13 | The smith was a freedman , tall and muscular , a Ch'noze whose facial tattoos indicated that he was of the family of a war-leader . |
| 14 | His talons were unadorned , though he had eye tattoos which indicated that he was of the clan of Hanjin . |
| 15 | Mr. Wadsworth considered this matter in the present case , and he was of the view that the criticism being made in the notice with regard to the Order 29 point of the County Court Rules was sufficient for it to be necessary for him to bring these proceedings by way of appeal before this court . |
| 16 | In such a situation while the judge may rule that the case shall proceed and be considered by the jury it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict . |
| 17 | Whilst , then , as the committee 's report states , ‘ it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict , ’ he would be free to do so if the prosecution view changed , perhaps after hearing the defendant 's evidence . |
| 18 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 19 | He was of an age and class that still swilled the dregs of colonialism at two in the morning , and the fact this man had black blood in him ( and , he guessed , much else besides ) counted as another mark against Chant 's judgement . |
| 20 | But now he was of an age and living in an era whose insecurities craved the reassurance of nursery images , the illusory solidity of Victorian values which , if they had never existed , could always be invented . |
| 21 | He was of an age to be able to wear his hair comfortably short and his chin shaven without eccentricity , probably around fifty . |
| 22 | He had married because he too thought he was of an age to settle down , and he had settled . |