Example sentences of "be [verb] [was/were] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the opening was dogged by controversy , because the track in which the route had been laid was of a type having a 1¼″ groove instead of the normal 1″ groove . |
| 3 | The requirement that wrappers should be sent was of great importance to the Nestle Co. ; there would have been no point in their simply offering records for 1s. 6d. each . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , most of the streets which have been sectioned were of substantial construction , in some of the wetter places being provided with a substructure of timber piles or a corduroy ; otherwise local material such as Kentish rag , crushed flints or chalk or gravel were used . |
| 5 | The dress Bella was wearing was of a deep and vivid shade of blue , cladding a figure that was anything but fat . |
| 6 | Especially if the bombs — or missiles — that plane was carrying were of the nuclear variety . |