Example sentences of "it [vb past] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 2 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 3 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 4 | It had been of course her suggestion that Mark 's pastoral visit should be no longer delayed . |
| 5 | It was cooler tonight than it had been of late , besides which she no longer dared to sleep in her underwear , and she pulled on a shortie nightshirt , a farewell present from her brothers . |
| 6 | ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser . |
| 7 | But the surgery on Monday morning was not as busy as it had been of late . |
| 8 | As a result , by the time war was declared in 1939 MI6 had failed to establish any worthwhile network of agents in Europe and those it had were of very dubious quality , some even dishonest and fraudulent . |