Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But these have mostly been of rather limited significance ( one concerned the supply of taxi cabs at Brighton station ) ; see Utton ( 1992 ) for a review . |
| 2 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 3 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 4 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 5 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |
| 6 | In Britain public examination results have always been of internal interest to schools , although they have been used as only crude indicators in evaluating a school 's performance . |
| 7 | He knows we have always been of the view that given the limited resources that the best cost effective use of those resources would be to merge the administration . |
| 8 | Conflicts of both interest and duty are not new to the City of London ; indeed , they have traditionally been of great concern to financial market regulators . |
| 9 | It is often the case that the specializing groups are of type ( i ) , with formal membership , but they have also been of types ( ii ) and ( iii ) . |
| 10 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |