Example sentences of "and [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’ |
| 2 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 3 | I am sure we all have one objective in mind , which is how we can best serve our members , and I 'm sure that both Richard and I are of the same view on this . |
| 4 | After all , they pay to look after old ruins , and I 'm of historical interest . |
| 5 | A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) . |
| 6 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 7 | My friends and I were of the resistance . |
| 8 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 9 | Now that my machine seems to be working tolerably well again , here is some news , along with renewed thanks for the welcome and lovely meals whilst I was with you — and I was of course interested and glad to meet and to know they would come and try and help with anything if you ring them . |
| 10 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 11 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 12 | To this letter I received a reply dated I March which contained some of the most interesting remarks he ever communicated to me , and which is of permanent value in reflecting his opinions on much wider issues : |
| 13 | A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 14 | Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV . |
| 15 | Haselkorn has argued that the USSR has also established aerial staging networks which were used for the airlift of arms to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and which are of paramount importance for Soviet access strategy in the Third World . |
| 16 | The collection and computerization of data will form the basis for investigation of six areas of Korean development which are considered to be under-researched by both Koreans and Korean specialists , and which are of relevance both to development policy and to the identification of future potential economic opportunities for Britain in South Korea as well as the future impact of Korea on the world economy . |
| 17 | Two phenomena which affect the norma parasitic life cycle of nematodes and which are of considerable biological and epidemiological importance are arrested larval development and the periparturient rise in faecal egg counts . |
| 18 | Its platform comprised issues of direct interest and concern to women , and which were of deep political significance , as Eleanor Barton , General Secretary 1925–37 , recognised : |
| 19 | Five males , who had accompanied them and who were of lower stock , had been hobbled together to follow the cart . |
| 20 | But so had Danny Maher , who now had the ride on Bachelor 's Button , and who was of the opinion that Pretty Polly did not have sufficient reserves to last home in the Gold Cup . |
| 21 | There were no tourists , and my air of demure solitariness must have been conspicuous , for I attracted the attention of a man whom I then thought of as middle-aged , and who was of distinctly raffish appearance . |
| 22 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 23 | In all these cases the reciprocity is like-for-like and the message that is encoded in the action is roughly : " We are friends and we are of equal status . " |
| 24 | And we are of opinion that the objection must prevail . |
| 25 | The best of describing it is If you are joint tenants , say it 's a house and there 's of you , you both own all the property . |
| 26 | The behavioural repertoire of newborn infants is somewhat limited , and there is of course no question of their reporting on whether they are awake or asleep . |
| 27 | It is very easy to read him wrong , and to make mistakes , and there are of course occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity which it would be ridiculous to , to try and develop . |
| 28 | Hence their smaller size reflects domestic use and they are of a similar size to those found on settlements . |
| 29 | Road junctions are few and they are of importance to travellers and especially to tourists on a first visit . |
| 30 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |