Example sentences of "have [verb] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 2 | What Eleanor Darcy has to say is of course monstrous , fascist . |
| 3 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 4 | He made a sweeping movement with his hand , as if what she 'd said was of no interest . |
| 5 | Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash . |
| 6 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 7 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 8 | The other fact which they had overlooked was of a different character but no less important in the long run . |
| 9 | And the ninth photograph she had taken was of a school . |
| 10 | had to say was of , of deep interest to me ! |
| 11 | None of the nursemaids I had engaged were of any use at all . |
| 12 | The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this . |
| 13 | How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ? |
| 14 | ‘ Those that I have seen are of the same basic stock , ’ he said at last . |
| 15 | In fact much of the detail in the lengthy description of the Smith family that you have read is of absolutely no value in resolving their problems . |